Dangerous cops all look alike.
That’s the lesson from Hammered Hank Brennan’s very telling confusion late Monday, when he blended up incompetent state trooper Nicholas Guarino with corrupt ex-FBI agent Nick Gianturco.
It occurred late Monday afternoon. Brennan was making an attempt to wash up the disastrous testimony of the moronic trooper Yuriy Bukhenik when he all of the sudden blurted out:
“Are you familiar with the name Nick Gianturco?”
Bukhenik regarded much more misplaced than regular. “Uh –“
“Guarino!” Brennan rapidly mentioned, correcting himself. “Sorry.”
Don’t inform us you’re sorry, Hank. We all know how sorry you might be.
However you may perceive Brennan’s befuddlement. Gianturco-Guarino. When you’ve seen one bent badge, you’ve seen ‘em all.
First you could have Nick Gianturco, recognized to his paymaster and pal Whitey Bulger as “Doc.” Bulger and his serial killing companion Stevie Flemmi gave Doc 1000’s in money payoffs, in keeping with Flemmi’s testimony in a number of federal trials.
That they had six FBI brokers in Boston on the pad. Two of them have been ultimately indicted for underworld hits. One died in jail.
Doc Gianturco was so crooked that he was the grasp of ceremonies for the 1990 farewell dinner for John “Zip” Connolly, one of many Boston FBI brokers who moonlighted as a hitman for the Mob.
Gianturco was so near Whitey that along with the money, Whitey as soon as gave him a belt buckle from Alcatraz. Possibly it was a Christmas current. In spite of everything, Christmas was for cops and youngsters, as Whitey would say. And the feds like Gianturco rated extra soiled cash than all people else.
Doc succeeded Zip as director of safety for Boston Edison. His brother Charlie was the primary FBI agent Stevie Flemmi demanded to see when he was lugged in 1995. Then the G-men put Charlie in control of the worldwide manhunt for Whitey – wink wink nudge nudge.
So you may see why Hank Brennan had such a giant man-crush on Gianturco. Whitey will need to have informed him what a manly man Doc Gianturco was.
Then there’s Nick Guarino. He was the state cop in control of investigating the texts between the pregnant 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and the cop from Bukhenik’s hometown and highschool, who’s in jail, charged with murdering her in Canton in 2021.
The lovebirds exchanged 32,000 texts. Investigating their cell telephones afterwards, Trooper Guarino missed all 32,000 of the texts. He didn’t discover a single one.
DA Meatball Morrissey dominated the murder-by-cop a suicide. Once more, wink wink nudge nudge.
Chances are you’ll ask your self, what’s the distinction between cops taking payoffs from mass murderers or simply being so incompetent that they let the killer stroll free?
Attention-grabbing query, which Hank Brennan himself raised it in the course of the Whitey Bulger trial. He was cross-examining one other of Whitey’s corrupted FBI brokers, John “Vino” Morris. Vino can be rewarded for his open corruption in Boston with the directorship of the FBI coaching academy in Quantico.
After Morris described himself on the witness stand as “compromised,” Brennan requested him:
“Is there a difference between ‘compromised’ and ‘corrupt,’ or did you mean the same thing when you said you were compromised?”
“Same thing,” Vino Morris mentioned.
One drawback with Brennan that we’re seeing in each the Bulger and the Learn trials is that he doesn’t put together his witnesses very nicely. I’ve informed you about Robert Fitzpatrick, his ex-FBI agent who was going to be his star witness in Bulger’s protection.
However Brennan couldn’t be bothered to do any analysis on the traditional drunkard. He was a pathological liar. After his sworn testimony, Fitzpatrick was convicted of six counts of perjury.
You’d assume Brennan would have realized one thing from the Fitzpatrick fiasco. God is aware of, in that very same trial, Stevie Flemmi tried to clarify the information of life to him on cross-examination.
As an example, he informed him find out how to cowl up a homicide, which is one thing that Brennan actually must have some understanding of, contemplating the information of the Karen Learn case.
And who higher to inform Brennan find out how to cowl up a homicide than Flemmi, who has admitted to having been concerned in 50-60 of them (after some time, you lose depend, I assume).
“When you commit a murder,” Flemmi defined to the longer term persecutor of Karen Learn, “you cover up on it, you don’t admit it to people. I don’t know if you’re aware of that, you should be, you’re an attorney… You don’t know what’s going on in the world. I’m giving you the real world.”
The actual world now’s 34 Fairview Highway, Canton.
Sarcastically, in 2013, Brennan bitterly blamed his idol Whitey’s downfall on corrupt cops. Now he’s defending corrupt cops – oh positive, he’s technically a “prosecutor.” However he has no extra probability of getting a homicide conviction on Karen Learn than he did of getting an acquittal for Whitey.
In his 2013 closing, Brennan complained to the jury about what the feds had simply performed to his pal, the forked-tongue FBI agent Fitzpatrick.
“They’ll crush you,” he mentioned. “You saw what they did to Mr. Fitzpatrick. They bully him, they berate him, they crush him. That’s what happens when you’re not with them, you’re either with them or you’re against them.”
Now, Brennan is one among “them.” He’s out to crush Karen Learn – “the defendant,” as he sneeringly calls her at each alternative he will get. Brennan bullies her, he berates her, he crushes her. And in contrast to Whitey, and even Fitzpatrick, Karen Learn hasn’t even performed something.
Something for a buck, although, proper Hank? You lose as a protection lawyer, you lose as a prosecutor. However the vital factor is operating up these billable hours, and the taxpayers choose up the tab because it runs into seven figures, mixed.
Billable hours uber alles.
Brennan’s confusion over two horrible cops is simply par for the course. He’s not very good, and he definitely doesn’t work very onerous. Have a look at his witnesses, all of them, in each trial.
The decide within the Whitey trial was Denise Casper. Brennan tried to maintain me out of that trial by itemizing me as a witness, similar to he tried to do with Aiden Kearney in Dedham. However Casper nixed that, simply because the despicable hack Cannone allowed Turtleboy to attend this trial.
Regardless of being appointed by Obama, Casper isn’t a nasty decide. At some point within the Bulger trial, Brennan was doing his regular piss-poor imitation of a lawyer.
“Objection!” he yelled. “Blah blah blah.”
That’s what he mentioned. “Blah blah blah.”
Fred Wyshak, the lead prosecutor, couldn’t consider it.
“Was that even a legal argument?” he requested the decide. “I mean, did this guy even go to law school?”
“Mr. Wyshack,” Choose Casper mentioned, “that’s enough.”
Possibly, Choose, nevertheless it was a great query. And nonetheless is.
(Comply with the Karen Learn trial on Howie’s radio present on AM 680 and the iHeart app from 2-6 each weekday.)
