On The Death of TV News Part Four: Sales Tips for the Street

Crime Scene, originally uploaded by freefotouk.

Covering mobsters and the FBI required most of the skills or least training if not skills that went all the way back to my days here. I had to get to know the mob personally. I take a lot of collect calls from prison.—this just in: they’re all innocent. And outside the can, I make a lot of visits. I’ve tracked them, ambushed them, and even dined with some of them afterwards.

He Should Have Taken the Stand

Courtroom One Gavel, originally uploaded by Joe Gratz.

Click here for a selection of Boeri’ stories on Bulger, Connolly & the Boston Mob.

John Connolly, the one time star of the FBI’s war on organized crime who was convicted of second degree murder yesterday, has been calling me collect from prison for the last year of so. I’m waiting for him to call me today. Now that he’s likely to spend the rest of his life in prison, I figure he’ll be calling sooner or later. In between his endless campaign to overturn his first conviction—on charges of corruption and of giving “Whitey” Bulger a head start before the cops could arrest him—which took up most of Connolly’s first six years in prison, and his new campaign to overturn this conviction, he no doubt will be sending me still more letters.