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Why Kevin Weeks could be trouble for Bill Weld
By adamg on Fri, 03/10/2006 - 9:41am
So what's the connection between Bill Weld, convicted Bulger thug Kevin Weeks and Herald columnist Howie Carr? Jay Fitzgerald lays it out. The latter two now have books out on the Bulger reign of terror and the Man Who Would Be Governor Again may (finally?) have to answer questions about how the Bulger gang got away with what it did while Big Red was U.S. Attorney and governor in Boston.
Weeks, however, is good news for the Herald and Carr, as Mark Jurkowitz dissects today's YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE GUTS front page (no registration required for today's column):
For many years, Howie really was the Herald, its best known journalist and biggest personality. In recent years though, he's spent more time and energy on his more lucrative gig as a WRKO talk radio host and the phrase sometimes used to describe his Herald work was "mailing it in." ...
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Bulger promotion
Wasn't it Bill Weld who named Billy Bulger to be president of the UMass system shortly after Whitey went on the lam? Weld left office in 1997, if memory serves. Whitey left his last trail in 1996, according to Howie. And thanks to the job as UMass president, doesn't Billy Bulger have one of the highest pensions in the state? Again, I'm going from memory here, so I don't mean to spread half-truths.
The interesting connections not mentioned here or on Jay Fitzgerald's site: Weld was US Attorney (that fact was mentioned) until 1990. That's the same time the Boston FBI office was protecting Whitey and agents (now convicted) were authorizing Whitey's criminal enterprises. FBI and U.S. Attorney both fall under DOJ, and they work closely on their investigations. Weld may have plausible deniability in the detailed matters concerning Whitey and FBI, but those simple connections made above can be spun out to be political ammunition.
I don't have a stake in Weld's big to become the first person to be governor of two states since Sam Houston, but this can't be good for him if his opponents are looking ways to deep six him.