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Summary: Paradox
Review: There is a man who was driven out of Massachusetts and totally impoverished when Whitey fled the state. The man is mentioned in some reviews here and seems to have become a target for major harassment. The man,following this case becoming a media spectacle,attempted to contact Dan Burton but Mr. Burton's phone number was promptly disconnected while just prior his aides gave the man the run around. Before trying to contact Mr. Burton, the man attempted to contact Senator Kennedy,Marty Meehan,Scott Harshbarger,John Kerry and many more but was ignored on all accounts.This might seem as Powerful forces ignoring some nutcase, but consider the following:1) A few years before Bulger fled the man was "briefed" by a government official about an ongoing project at a defense contractor in Massachusetts but not told what the project involved or how he was connected to it nor the duration while being forced to sign an acknowledgement. 2) The man had as key adults in his life growing up links to names or organizations pertinent to some of the government personnel scrutinized in this case. 3) The man has been kept in a state of impoverishment particularly the past 3 years while creditors such as Citibank Discover and many more have been extremely unsympathetic despite being given extensive explanations of the circumstances. 4) The man, until 1995 and after, was always able to care for himself and often worked 2-4 jobs simultaneously to do so.. making the circumstances following Bulger's 1995 flight from justice appear as if the man was being forced to fail in every way and aspect of life, similar to treatment State Trooper Johnson received after stopping Whitey at Logan airport and before Johnson committed suicide. 5) The man is said to have been befriended by associates with links to John Connelly as a young child and which acquaintances suddenly turned hostile and manipulative when this all broke out. 6) The man apparently has convenient telephone problems in sync with the Government Reform hearings or when a major news story appears about developments in the Bulger case.It is quite likely for example, if the Government Reform committee attempted to contact the man in person,by letter, or by phone that such attempts would be intefered with in an aura of convenient coincidence.
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Summary: A fine journalistic expose of a sordid FBI mesalliance.
Review: This is an excellent, well-organized explanation of the whole convoluted, long suppressed story of the Boston FBI's, specifically John Morris's and John Connally's, duping at the hands of Whitey Bulger. For years Connally and Morris served as Whitey's enablers, overlooking or silently sanctioning years of crime, corruption, and violence.
While the book gives Bulger credit for shrewdness and duplicity in outwitting the FBI, it also leaves one in no doubt as to the rancid character of Whitey, no Robin Hood of South Boston here, but a traitorous drug-dealer to the youths of Southie, a vicious hood and a thoroughly violent and repellant criminal. Everything you need to know is here except the answer to the $64 million dollar question, but if Billy doesn't know why should Lehr and O'Neill?
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Summary: Con job
Review: There is a man referred to in prior reviews who worked for Grace and was a state orphan who may be a target of harassment in all of this because of a link unknown to that man. When Jonathan Harr's book came out, a man of Italian/Irish descent with strong roots to Newburyport,Mass introduced the man to a supposed private investigator. Over the next few years it became apparent this investigator and his 'friend' began setting up the man by carefully orchestrated telephone calls and surreptitious taping of staged conversations. The Newbury man claimed to be his friend while threatening him,pretending to represent Jan Schlictmann and Grace,alternately. One question no one has explored is the possible link between Jonathan Harr's book and the gangland and political fallout so pronounced in the Whitey Bulger case. Was a child of one of the principals in the Bulger case sick from the pollution in Woburn and was this child treated under the condition of service to the government and/or private parties by that child's father. And was a promise made to look out for the child but when it was revealed that this was not done, the principal in the case fled, realizing they had been victim of a snow job? Also, could such a child have been the target of casebuilding against that child by individuals linked to state child care agencies as "social workers" who in reality were building a blackmail file against the child as that child grew up?
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Summary: GOOD PLACE TO START
Review: If you have always been curious about the Irish Mob in Boston, this is the place to start. This book names all the key players (FBI, Mob, other), their roles during the Whitey Bulger days and the outcome of their heinous actions. This book was well researched and should not be missed by anyone interested in the Whitey Bulger days in South Boston.
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Summary: Questions without answers
Review: 1) Has the former business partner of Rocco Solimeno and associate of Cogliano, a supporter of Cellucci waged war against a possible child of Whitey Bulger or some other principals in this case? 2) Has the government harassed a possible child of Whitey by controlling the means of income and therefore also use of credit in an effort to utterly destroy the child or have the Bulger forces done this to a child perhaps of one of their victims? 3) Is a man who has been devastated since the onset of this case a target of pro-Angiulo/Patriarca forces? 4) Could the concealment of Whitey's whereabouts be the efforts of both FBI and Justice Department forces,similar to their withholding info from the government reform committee? 5) Have the official records of a child raised in state care and possibly the key to the whole Bulger case been sanitizedby state officials and subcontractors and does the appointment of Jeff Locke to head such an agency by Cellucci have anything to do with this?
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Summary: Sloppy Joe
Review: There is something very curious about this case. Consider the plight of a man who was a small child when Flemmi first appeared in the Top Echelon program: The child was treated out of state and lived in a hospital bed for over 2 years straight with no visitors,no known family and no definitive diagnosis until just before release. One of the procedures performed was the same as a bone marrow transplant and other tests performed also pointed to leukemia. Of government sponsored studies, only 3 children matched this child with diagnosis of aseptic necrosis of the femoral head and also wore the Patten brace and orthotics. This child had no social security number during the treatment nor was a number knowingly assigned to the child as that switched guardianship hands for the next 5 years following years after release from the hospital. In the early 1970s, a former army official attached to the Pentagon during Vietnam (Flemmi was army)arranged for the boy to have a social security number. Prior to meeting this official the boy had a large number of state foster families with a particular Italian family in Burlington,Mass among the most abusive.
In 1993-94, the boy had a news article published detailing his quest for his father and the expense and ultimate disappointment in learning the man he was told was the father was not. About 2 years or so after the article a large article appeared in the Boston Globe detailing how Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) could be used to determine leukemia by the existence of minimal residual leukemia cells.On further investigation, the boy(now a man) learned this technique was used in his test. Additionally, consultation with the first expert witness in DNA fingerprinting in the U.S. revealed that the only thing that can throw this test is a bone marrow transplant, which was done in the early 1960s and the procedure for doing so is consistent with procedures performed on the boy.
In 1995 this man worked for WR Grace in a capacity to prevent the kind of pollution that tragically occurred in Woburn 4-5 decades ago. On release of Harr's book "A Civil Action" he was summoned to an Executive's office and told he was part of a "layoff" for "cost reductions". The layoff ultimately consisted of 1 person. The man knew little of the Woburn case and had a largely concealed family history in state records that even the likes of Ted Kennedy,Nick Paleologos, and many more could not reveal. For the next few years the man had a succession of job interviews in which he was grilled by the interviewers about the role Grace played in the Woburn case and the interviewers claimed to know parties in the case. In each interview case the man never got the job. While this went on, the man's medical records began disappearing, and an EPA official the man had been introduced to told him" good luck finding work". Several years before, the man had been called into a Grace managers office with ties to Woburn and informed that if he didn't take a specific job his future was dead with Grace or anywhere else. The man also found himself maneuvered into certain jobs where he suddenly became the target for much harassment because it was thought he had something to do with Harr's book, of which he didn't.
Grace has been historically a very Republican company, and the man suddenly began having problems at Fleet Bank, a supporter of gubernatorial candidate Paul Cellucci who has been linked to George Cashman who has been linked to John Connolly in the Bulger case. Most recently the man was told he had 7 days to leave where he was staying by a relative of a Grace executive. Additionally, an associate who had been introduced to the man as a child had ties to a key political supporter of Cellucci with enormous ties to the employment market in the area which became closed off to the man. And when Cellucci moved to Canada, a mysterious phone call from Ottawa came the same day. Before this ,roommates of the man described workmen doing something at the telephone pole outside the apartment that the telephone company later had no work orders for. Pen registers courtesy of the FBI?
From 1995 on there was a succession of people remerging from the man's past whom had been introduced by different names when he was a boy than they now carry. In at least one case one such individual suggested that they had made 'mistakes' but ' know how to cover them up'. Since this book came out associates known to the man for decades in some cases suddenly switched demeanor and it became apparent that when the man contacted those "friends" that the phone conversations were being steered to elicit specific responses perhaps for legal purposes and perhaps recorded without the mans knowledge or permission.It appeared as a significant number of individuals knew something about this man he had never been told so as to protect themselves.
That man,because of a withheld family history, has had to suffer long term homelessness,joblessness( on a scale way beyond explanation for the general economic trends of the past 6-7 years), the loss of old 'friends' and nearly every personal possession over and over again while growing up as a child bounced place to place.The man's whole life has been essentially taking one beating after another for events that preceded him and of which he was not a cognizant participant. The man has been referred to in prior reviews.
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Summary: Weigh-in
Review: Nearly 40 years ago a boy was born and hurried away by the mother because the husband, a bank robber( Whitey traveled with bank robbers), threatened to kill the baby. A couple of years later the boy ended up living in a hospital ward for more than 2 years as a cripple.During the 2+ years no one came to visit,leaving the child confined to a bed in an uncomfortable traction system. When the child was released a diagnosis of the condition not listed in the medical record at the time was given and no family history known. Six months after release to the mother the child was attempting suicide by exiting cars on the highway. While with his 'mother',the child experienced a house fire, repeated long term beatings and creative tortures by a stepfather in between attempted murder and later an attempted suicide of the mother all while the child was still effectively crippled. On being removed by the state,the child bounced around family to family unwanted and subject to continual humiliation (insults,threats,deprivations),obviously being situated with families that hated him( italian) and wished him no good. All of these placements occurred in the geographical vicinity of major players and in the Bulger case. When signs of severe abuse began emerging, the child was punished further with beatings or worse. The child seemed to never play or have toys and at one point some kindly school personnel gave the boy time to play and toys while others continued the regimen of beatings to 'get him in line'. Eventually the boy landed in a residential program near the time Whitey signed on to Top Echelon. He and his brother were separated long before this. At about this time and for the next 30 years the boy was introduced to individuals who later surfaced as having strong evidence of links to the players in this case. Nearly all were in some form paid for their connection to the boy. The boy didn't see this,but rather saw them as good people and loved them. Over the next 30 years the boy would be introduced to sexual predators,DOJ personnel,military personnel (army and air force-- Whitey was air force/Flemmi army) and be threatened with youth lockups(by a caretaker of the same name as one of the agents in this book), placed into a hard labor program breaking granite boulders with sledgehammers while being threatened by local police harassment by program administrators and suffer the loss of dozens of peers he was thrilled to call 'friend'. The boy was always told he was no good, a bad person, and would end up in trouble. When the boy eventually ran away, he did well in school,survived through high school by working 2-3 jobs and volunteered. In 1995 Bulger fled and the man's life changed. He couldn't find work, lived off credit cards,eventually lost his home and was forced to live in his car while working to eat. He became insolvent and defaulted on his debts after years of trying to establish good credit. A major creditor even raised his interest rate on a credit card after he notified them of his hardship. From this same creditor the man received almost daily calls with no message other than silence without explanation. Later, the former director of the FBI was hired by them. Individuals appeared in the boy's life claiming some affiliation with the FBI,DOJ, or Bureau of Prisons. In most of these introductions and the subsequent 'friendships' that developed through the brother as an intermediary, the end result was these introductions later led to harmful acts by those parties. This took the form of gaining the man's confidence,waiting for info that could be harmful to that man, then using it to deliver the sting. That sting took the form of job losses,police stops under suspicious circumstances,phone trouble, or sudden,spontaneous breakdown of friendships where these parties were introduced. All the while the brother claimed to have worked for one of foremost gangsters rivalling Bulger/Flemmi during a time when the 2 brothers were not in contact and perhaps even when the crucial info was being gathered that led to the downfall of that gangster. When the man tried to contact a principal government reform committee member, that number was promptly disconnected.
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Summary: Missing link?
Review: There is a man referred to in prior reviews who might be linked to this case. You judge for yourself... 1) Not long before this case became a media event, the man ('ManX' we'll call him) had a lengthy news story printewd about his search for his unknown father. Whitey disappeared and all hell broke loose in this man's life. 2) The man had a brother born by a different name who then changed his name to this ManX's last name.Around this time another man appeared bearing the same name as ManX and who seemd to be living a parallel life intertwined with ManX,as if creating an alter ego for ManX.Over the next 20 years, this alter ego would cross paths with ManX from time to time,with the imposter using ManX as a fallguy.At one point the imposter went AWOL claiming he was ManX from the army.ManX was not in the military.Could any of this have involved friends of Flemmi in the military? 3) ManX was in the custody of the courts when Bulger was officially signed on to Top Echelon.At this point new individuals were introduced to the boy as positive influences. Things went well although these new influences kept a distance and frequently filed reports on their interaction with the boy. When Bulger fled in 1995 these same individuals suddenly turned their backs on ManX and even used false names when contact was attempted.It was later revealed that some of these individuals might be tied to influential parties linked to George Cashman of the Teamsters.ManX knew none of this. All ManX knew was that these people had shown him kindness. 4) ManX became a target for numerous individuals claiming affiliation with the Justice Dept. or FBI without being asked about this. The result was that ManX became all but totally unemployable.It was as if ManX was either being targeted by individuals with the FBI/DOJ, supporters of such employees or individuals with another agenda trying to make out a link with the FBI/DOJ. 5) There was increased evidence of possible documentary sanitation with respect to ManX's upbringing at an accelerated pace when this case bubbled up in the media.ManX wrote an autobiography and this appeared to stir up serious concern. 6) Since the case emerged in 1995,ManX has been almost completely without health insurance,kept in poverty and been maneuvered into bankruptcy,homelessness and much more. It is as if an attempt to destroy the man financially,spiritually and emotionally has been underway ever since Bulger fled, just like what happened to the state trooper at Logan airport who crossed Bulger once. 7) The man had as caretakers of various kinds at least 2-3 people with the same names as FBI personnel in this case. 8) Could ManX be the child of a principal in this case with the plan of turning ManX into an informant to replace Flemmi and Bulger and something went wrong,so incurring the wrath of the DOJ?
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Summary: Exit Poll
Review: This case may be lacking a key piece to this whole puzzle in a man old enough to be a son of one of one the principals in this case.Here is a summary and you decide if it is coincidence or pattern! 1) This man was raised and bounced around by abusive guardians and natural family members, moving perhaps 30 or more times by the age of 9.Despite a long history of abuse,neglect and handicap,the boy was repeatedly put into situations where emotional and/or physical abuse took place knowingly. 2) The man had as guardian at one point a state official who had the same name as an FBI mentioned in Black Mass. 3) The man was raised in proximity to several individuals who became defensive and worried when the Bulger case opened up in 1995 and since. 4) The man was bounced around as a youngster,having friendships broken apart only later to have such individuals re-enter that man's life with a different identity than they were introduced as. 5) In 1989 the man was hit and run on the way home from work and the party responsible was never held accountable even though a serious criminal record was alleged. 6) Not long before Whitey disappeared,the man had a news story depicting his search for his father and all the obstacles in finding out about it; Whitey Bulger disappears and this man becomes a target for a wide range of harassing activities. 7) As the Bulger case evolved, this man found himself surrounded by a group of 10 individuals,many of whom blamed him for the ensuing fallout in the BUlger case. The man's family history had largely been withheld from him.Also, a man with out of state plates moved in next door claiming to work construction. As strange phone calls
kept coming into the man's home,one day the man saw his neighbor driving a phone company truck.That man soon moved out and the origin of the strange calls was the workplace in which he was surrounded by individuals blaming him for the Bulger case. 8) As the Bulger case matured, medical records and other official records began disappearing on the man. 9) Individuals who had been introduced as caretakers of the boy later completely disavowed the man when the Bulger case burst out. 10) As the Bulger case hearings moved along, individuals, usually in the capacity of a new coworker began befriending the man.It soon become evident they were investigating the man and when confronted did not deny being involved with law enforcement or the justice department.Such investigations apppeared to focus on the man's home,dating habits,and financial transactions even though the man had no criminal record. Most of the individuals involved claimed roots in New Hampshire. As the congressional hearings matured, the man became the target of increasing traffic stops with each time the officer appearing to have knowledge about the person they could not have had in a random stop. 11) Money vanished from the man's bank account without explanation; even with receipts showing a discrepancy had occurred and spending hours discussing it with bank branch personnel,no satisfactory explanation was ever offered. The bank at the time held Internal Revenue Service accounts and supported a major political candidate in the region. 12) When the man went to vote, thug-like men appeared menacingly watching him.
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Summary: Epilogue
Review: This case is also a study on the nature of relationships within the government-/quasi-government framework. In this case we see people who had close working relationships turn on each other or be persuaded to turn on each other with promises of leniency. We see Whitey at large while one by one individuals that are said to have been close to him go down. This is also a study in tactics and ethics. ...
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