By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Atty. Carmen Ortiz for Massachusetts governor in 2014? That seems to be the rumor circulating in Democratic circles, according to the Boston Herald. “That’s a rumor out there,” acknowledged former Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Phil Johnston, according to the Boston Herald “She’s had a high profile as a U.S. attorney,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney who made headlines as the lead prosecutor in the case of the infamous crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his long-time girlfriend Catherine Greig, has been named “Bostonian of the Year,” by the Boston Globe Magazine, the publication announced in a press release on Friday. The Globe,…
By Milton J. Valencia Boston Globe BOSTON — She is the United States attorney who barked back at former city councilor Chuck Turner, and it was her administration that convicted former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, once one of the most powerful political figures in Massachusetts. US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz took office only 18…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com A high-profile Boston attorney who has represented mobsters and some big name clients was charged Wednesday with money laundering that included taking payments from an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug dealer from the Dominican Republic. Authorities charged that attorney Robert A. George, 56, of Westwood, Mass., helped conceal $225,000…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News A white man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for burning down a predominately African-American church in Springfield, Mass., the day after Barack Obama won the presidential election. Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor in Springfield for the 2008 burning of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Boston federal judge on Friday sharply criticized the U.S. Attorney’s office for bringing charges against a Homeland Security official, saying prosecutors overreached and crushed her for what he saw as a minor offense, the Boston Globe reported. U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock postponed sentencing while he considers a defense…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric Holder Jr., the nation’s first black Attorney General, on Monday swore in Carmen Milagros Ortiz as Massachusetts’ first woman and Hispanic U.S. Attorney. The two first met 30 years ago when Holder was a young lawyer in the Justice Department and Ortiz was a law student serving an internship in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The way-too slow process of confirming newly minted U.S. Attorneys around the country continued on Thursday. The full Senate confirmed Carmen M. Ortiz for U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts, Ed Tarver for the Southern District in Georgia and Benjamin Wagner for the eastern District of California, the news website Main…
