The worst word you can ever use against Johnny Martorano is “rat,” so you can bet that Whitey Bulger’s lawyers will be throwing it up against him again this morning within 30 seconds or so of resuming their cross-examination. They’ll be trying to make him lose his cool. Good luck with that. Stipulated, I wrote...
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Johnny Martorano seems a little more subdued these days. He’s 72 now, but it’s more than that. I think it’s the fact that unlike during the earlier Zip Connolly trials, he’s been back in Boston for a while now. He sees his family, they can read the papers, and even though “hit man” is a fearsome job...
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Boston’s trial of the decade It’s the trial of the decade in New England — notorious South Boston mobster Whitey Bulger finally brought before the bar of justice after 16 years on the lam to face charges including 19 murders in three states. But the 83-year-old Alcatraz alum isn’t the only one on trial in the...
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Ex-mobster gets his turn to be the rat This morning in Courtroom 11 at the federal courthouse, Whitey Bulger and John Martorano will meet face-to-face for the first time in 31 years. Martorano will take the witness stand as Whitey, the defendant, sits less than 10 feet away from the “friend” he spent years ratting...
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