Sunday, July 3, 2011

Choppy Bulger Coverage

By me, readers. Globe is full of it. 

The only thing you need remember about this is the FBI is ORGANIZED CRIME and ORGANIZED CRIME is the FBI!

Btw, I now call it the Fascist Bureau of Instigation after all the frame-up patsy plots they have "uncovered."

"US defends the cost of Bulger's copter ride; Safe transport key, officials say" July 02, 2011|By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff

The US Marshals Service yesterday defended its decision to transport reputed mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger in a helicopter to a recent Boston court appearance, calling it one of many security measures the agency takes to change travel routes or respond to any potential threats against someone in custody.

The statement followed complaints from relatives of Bulger's alleged murder victims that the 81-year-old has received special treatment. It also came on the same day that Senator Scott Brown fired off a letter to Stacia A. Hylton, director of the Marshals Service, urging her to find a "less costly and less extravaganta"  mode of transportation for Bulger.

The Marshals Service and the Coast Guard released a statement that said the cost of Bulger's 40-minute helicopter ride Thursday from Plymouth County House of Correction to Logan International Airport was about $7,500.

The marshals released that figure only after the agency's initial estimate of $1,500 was described as inaccurate by the Coast Guard, which provided the Jayhawk helicopter. The Coast Guard said $1,500 would only cover the chopper's fuel....

In other words, THEY LIED!

Coast Guard Petty Officer and spokesman Luke Clayton said technically, taxpayers did not pay more out of their pockets for Bulger's helicopter ride.

The Jayhawk probably would have been used for some other activity, such as patrolling restricted fishing areas or performing search and rescue exercises, he said.   

Well, BETTER it should have been USED FOR THAT -- and any way to charge it, 'er, cut it TAXPAYERS ARE STILL OUT of POCKET! 

Related: Christie Pays For Chopper Ride

Yeah, what LAME-ASS EXCUSES!!   

How many teachers could those chopper rides cover?

"Pilots are required to fly a certain amount of hours per week," Clayton said. "It's not like we put a stop to everything and said we're doing this flight completely separate. It's in the budget to do these types of flights."   

Then START CUTTING THAT!

Victims' families and politicians have bristled at the way Bulger has been treated.

Last Friday, he was flown on a private jet from California to Massachusetts for his first hearing in Boston.

Patricia Donahue, the widow of alleged Bulger victim Michael Donahue, said she was appalled on Thursday to see Bulger flown into Boston, then escorted by an armed police motorcade to the US District courthouse.

Later, relatives had to wait for Bulger's brothers to go inside the courtroom before they were allowed inside.

"They treated him more like he was a celebrity than a prisoner. He should be treated like every other prisoner," Donahue said. "When he comes to court [on July 6], are they going to bring him on a yacht? There is not too much left."

I'm sure to some of them he is.

In his letter, Brown said the rides on the "private luxury jet" and helicopter seemed "far in excess of what the marshals have provided in the past to federal detainees."  

Except for Muslims rendered to secret prisons for torture.

"I agreed with US Attorney Carmen Ortiz when she said Whitey Bulger would be "treated like every other defendant," Brown wrote. "So far, that does not seem to be the case."  

Related:

Selecting a Senator: Brown on the Waterboard


Selecting a Senator: Brown is Bush

Massachusetts should be so proud!

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Yeah Whitey isn't seeing that kind of stuff.

Also see:  

The U.S. Senate's Chief Brownnoser to Israel

Brown's Nose Buried Deep

I see a long Senate career for Scott Brown.

"Despite notoriety, Bulger no easy case" by Mark Arsenault and Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff / July 3, 2011

There are few who believe that James “Whitey’’ Bulger, 81, has a chance of ever sleeping anywhere but a prison cell.

But what might seem like a slam-dunk case against someone who was pictured alongside Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s Most Wanted List will be an immensely complex undertaking, costing taxpayers millions of dollars and playing out over years, former prosecutors and defense attorneys say....

I'll bet he dies in custody, cui bono?  

Yes, taxpayers will be spared a few million, but the FBI will be spared the embarrassing glare of the spotlight.

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Related:

Bulger wants two cases merged
A lawyer for James “Whitey’’ Bulger moved yesterday to consolidate the two racketeering indictments he faces, rather than allow prosecutors to drop the less serious one, a bid that prosecutors and families of Bulger’s alleged victims say will complicate prosecution of the 19 murder charges against him.

Earlier Bulger charges dropped
A federal judge granted a request by prosecutors yesterday to dismiss racketeering charges brought against James “Whitey’’ Bulger in 1995, saying it was “very much in the public interest’’ that the 81-year-old stand trial in a later case charging him with 19 murders.  
That's why the case is complicated?

A Bulging Boston Globe

Whitey Makes Me See Red

Battle of the Bulger


Back on the diet, readers. 

Also see: The Russian-Israeli Mafia: Off-limits to FBI, US intelligence

Too busy setting up halfwit "terrorists."
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