Conference back40::soapbox

    
    he only wants to talk to walters 'cause she needs a hair redo.
    
    ffej

I thought he wanted to talk to Dan Rather...

Yup, that's what Salvi said...if convicted he
wants to be executed, if acquitted, he wants to
become a Catholic priest.  That's probably what
he wanted to talk to Cardinal Law about.

    
    
    
        Salvi is being arraigned about two blocks from here (DEC office
        on Federal St.),....talk about "celebrity status",...you should
        see the police down here,....you'd think the prez was in town.
    
    
    
        Ed
    
    

Any signs of Shapiro?  

    
    
    he's also wearing a bullet-proof vest....not gonna do any good when
    someone aims for his head...
    
    

Salvi's lawyer's name is J.W. Carney.

His clients include the lovely Kenneth Seguin, who,
in 1991, drugged his two children, slashed their throats,
and threw them in a pond.  Then Kenny went home and axed
his wife to death while she lay sleeping in bed.  

The plea was insanity and Kenny was convicted of 2nd degree
murder.

    What sentence did Kenneth Seguin get?  And when will he be out?

    Has anyone noticed that Salvi is an anagram of Silva?

Seguin never denied killing his family; he was
charged with first degree murder.  But he was 
convicted of second degree murder after Carney
argued that he was insane at the time.

I don't know when, if ever, they'll let him out.
But he is incarcerated somewhere.

I do remember that the prosecutor tried to convince 
the jury that Kenny had thought all his actions through,
and quite sanely.  He purchased the drugs to use on his
children, etc.  But, the jury thought otherwise, I guess.

This J.W. Carney sounds like one of those fine upstanding members of
the legal profession that George is always telling us about.

BTW, where the heck's George?

J.W. Carney is a public defender; the court assigned this case to him.

    Salvi... what an idjit. They don't have the death penalty in Mass.
    How would they execute him? Send him to Jeffrey Dahmer's prison?
    
    And how come we're not being "alleged" to death? :-)
    
    -b

RE:             <<< Note 231.13 by COVERT::COVERT "John R. Covert" >>>
              -< He is described as a "Prominent Boston Lawyer" >-

>J.W. Carney is a public defender; the court assigned this case to him.



  I thought Carney was hired in Boston by Salvi's family or something..the
   public defender was another guy from Virginia..




 Jim

I was curious about the simultaneous usage of "prominent Boston
Attorney" and "public defender", myself.

Glob said Carney was assigned to the case by the court.

That's all I know.

/john

    Do Lester Pigot and Ken Dodd qualify as celebrity criminals??
    

    RE: alleged
    
    Come to think of it, you're right.  The boxers are usually very
    carefula bout that sort of thing, but not with this guy.  I wonder why.
    
    ME

    George ain't here 8^).

	Remember when Whitey Bulger won the lottery???? Now the police are
looking for him for racketeering! It might explain how he won the lottery. 
Did he have something on Joe Malone???? :-)

	Whitey Bulger, wotta character.  The Sunday Globe had
	an interesting write-up on him....	

	Maybe he's the one who broke Joe Malone's nose.
	Apparently someone did at one time or another.

	

Speaking of which, for those of us who haven't any pressing
need to follow local Mass issues -
	Exactly what/who is a "Whitey Bulger"?

    John "Whitey" Bulger is the 65 year old brother of Mass senate
    president William Bulger. He is also considered to be the head
    of the largest gangland operation in Boston, eclipsing the
    size of the local mafia contingent. His stock in trade is
    mostly gambling. Whitey has a very loyal network of contacts,
    including in local, state and federal police agencies. Thus,
    he routinely manages to avoid prosecution. Several attempts
    to bring federal racketeering charges against Bulger have
    failed. He served time for bank robbery some 30 years
    ago.
    
    Back a few years ago, Whitey managed to hit the Mass Millions
    jackpot, netting him an $80,000 a year bonus to go along
    with the other earnings. Rumor has it that Whitey considers
    this "chump change".
    
    One of his gambling minions recently entered the fed witness
    protection program and Whitey has been indicted once again.
    Attempts to deliver the indictment have been unsuccessful,
    as Whitey has once again managed to elude capture.
    
    -b

Sort of a Massachusetts Billy Carter with an attitude, eh?

    Now, on a national scale, this type of skeleton in the closet would be
    grounds for never being able to run for office.  Billy must have some
    paper on a lot of folks.....

            <<< Note 231.28 by CONSLT::MCBRIDE "aspiring peasant" >>>

| Now, on a national scale, this type of skeleton in the closet would be grounds
| for never being able to run for office. Billy must have some paper on a lot of
| folks.....


	Nah, he just lives in the predominate bigotted South Boston. He is
Irish and white, so he fits in with the good ole boys. 


Glen

And he can recite Shakespeare like nobody's business.
Very cultured.  Full of chahm.

    full of something far, far noxious as well, IMO etc.  

Full of principles, too...  I read that someone was listing
off his "alleged" involvements -- murder, extortion, drug
dealing, prostitution, robbery, etc. -- and he indignantly replied,
"I'm NOT a drug dealer!!!!"

j.

    I suppose it's possible that Whitey and Billy Bulger are the same
    person... but I don't think so: :-)
    
    Billy: *Rules* the Senate with an iron fist. People in his
           own party (D) tried a palace coup to oust Bulger from
           the leadership. They failed. As one of Bulger's Senate
           supporters said "If you're going to try and kill the
           King, don't miss!" Billy is the one who quotes
           Shakespeare...
    
    Whitey:The criminal. Quotes John Gotti, mostly... :-)
    
    -b

Looks like Carney's going to go for the insanity
plea, but only if Salvi says it's okay.  

Carney is quoted as saying that "the trial will not
be what happened, but why.  He (Salvi) has developed
some extraordinary beliefs based on his deeply felt
religious feelings."

> some extraordinary beliefs

Where is the "Understatement of the Century" topic?

In his 6-page letter to the world, Salvi wrote that the
Catholics should have their own currency so that Catholics
in hard times would never be broke.

Either the guy is a fruitcake or he's putting on a very 
convincing show...

    Mass hysteria.

>    Mass hysteria.

That was what he created in Seabrook on Christmas eve.

    ... no it's the voting technique in the PRM

    And that's a transubstantiated fact?

	I hate to say this, but 5 people have told me that I look a lot like
this guy. Throw in that Salvi is a dyslexic way of spelling Silva, and it's
pretty scary. I never noticed the looks thing until my roomate said something
at 1:00 am Sunday Morning when he saw the guys picture on the front page of the
Globe. Glad the store was empty, as my roomate was loaded and not as quiet as I
would have liked.


Glen

Good thing Glen has Soapbox as an outlet.