Massachusetts Politicians Support Teamster Union Officials Charged By US Attorney

Don't expect the Justice Department to help Carmen Ortiz prosecute Democratic party supporters. US Rep. Capuano appears to be unable to distinguish between reality and Hollywood, a pervasive error among low and no information civilians. It indicates that dumbed down society has moved into government. Capuano objects to broad brush painting of union abuses, but it is OK when black extremists accuse white people of being racists, and enjoying white privilege. As in Leninist Russia it is all about the almighty party. No more individual rights. The party rules. Promoting good deeds of miscreants is why crime families thrive in the United States and Mexico. They help people without a bureaucracy. Poor vulnerable people recognize the failure of government and place their allegiance with criminals. Government lost its credibility and was easy pickings for criminals to run their own candidates. It explains the lawlessness of the White House and the reluctance of Congress to stop the abuses. Elected officials who speak for union suspects show they prefer support of unions to federal prosecutors. Where were these officials when the FBI, Justice Department attorneys and police agencies were running wild with James Bulger's gang? Harvard Law Professor of ethics "On Leave" Lessig runs for president to fight corruption. Is there no way to fight it other than becoming president? Of the five law schools in Boston and Cambridge which one speaks out about government corruption?   

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“I couldn’t disagree with that more,” U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano said yesterday. “Every city, every group has bad actors in it — including the U.S. Attorney’s Office, I might add. Anybody who paints that kind of broad brush is making a humongous mistake.
“You may have seen a recent movie lately that involves some people in the U.S. Attorney’s Office that didn’t do the right thing in Boston,” he added, referring to “Black Mass,” which tells of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s unholy alliance with the FBI.
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The Teamsters have built a political power base that’s thrown its weight behind Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Attorney General Maura Healey, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and other high-profile Democrats. Healey and Goldberg have refused to return donations they’ve gotten from the Teamsters.
“The attorney general feels strongly that the actions that are alleged by these individuals shouldn’t reflect on the good work of an entire organization,” Healey campaign spokesman David Guarino said.
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U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, a former union ironworker, said the allegations are “stuff that used to happen in the ’40s and ’50s.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2015/10/dems_stand_behind_the_teamsters

Dems stand behind the Teamsters
Saturday, October 3, 2015
By: Matt Stout
Boston Herald

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Padma Lakshmi

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How about City Councilor Tim McCarthy saying of the union that a President’s Commission once described as a totally owned subsidiary of girlfriend-strangler Whitey Bulger: “They have turkey giveaways.”
Hey, councilor, so did Al Capone.
The Local 25 thugs are accused of threatening to “break the pretty face” of a Bravo TV star whom they also called a “bleepin’ whore.”
Her name is Padma Lakshmi — she’s an Indian-American. No big deal, the Democrat hack­erama agrees.
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MA Attorney General Maura Healey

Maura Healey, the attorney general, is a lesbian. Apparently the Teamsters’ “homophobic slurs,” as listed in the indictment by an Obama appointee, don’t bother her. Hey, as long as the check clears, right Maura?
Imagine if five Republicans from the Tea Party had committed the same kind of racist, homophobic assault that the honor guard of Local 25 is accused of. [. . .]
It’s just “the alleged behavior of a few,” alibied state Treasurer Deb Goldberg. In other words, just Democrats being Democrats.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/10/carr_dems_line_up_to_kiss_thugs_pinky_rings_big_surprise

Carr: Dems line up to kiss thugs’ pinky rings ... big surprise!
Saturday, October 3, 2015
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald

Two Ex-Teamsters Bosses Convicted of Extorting Hospitals And Non Profits

Secretary/Treasurer of Teamsters Local Union No. 82 John Perry.

Photo by: John Wilcox (File)

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Two ex-Teamsters union bigs were convicted of extorting Hub hospitals and local nonprofits by threatening protests if they did not give into their demands.
But a third co-defendant finished the 33-day racketeering trial in U.S. District Court in Boston with a mistrial and a fourth was acquitted.
Convicted in the RICO case were ex-Teamsters Local 82 secretary John Perry, 62, of Woburn, and his enforcer, Joseph “Jo Jo” Burhoe, 46, of Braintree.
Targets of “Perry’s Crew,” as federal prosecutors called the Teamsters gang, included Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the United States Green Building Council, U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement. Local 82 was shut down by the national Teamsters union in 2011 and folded into Local 25 in Charlestown.
Perry and Burhoe were convicted of threatening to picket businesses and disrupt events just hours before they were scheduled to start. “Since 2007 the defendants engaged in illegal activities in order to generate money for themselves, their friends and family members,” federal prosecutors said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/11/two_teamsters_found_guilty_of_extorting_local_hospitals

Two Teamsters found guilty of extorting local hospitals
Two found guilty of extorting local hospitals
Thursday, November 20, 2014
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald

New Book Reveals Where Jimmy Hoffa Was Buried

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James Hoffa

Is this the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa?
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New York Post
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