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Michele McPhee is a best-selling author, Emmy-nominated investigative reporter, and award-winning columnist. A veteran crime journalist, she is the best-selling author of five true crime titles: A Professor’s Rage, A Date With Death, Heartless — The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Baby, When Evil Rules, and A Mob Story.

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— Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of Actual Innocence

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kenton-walker

 

 

MICHELE MCPHEE

Nicolas Guaman was competent enough to sneak into the United States from Ecuador illegally. Competent enough to get an under the table job and avoid paying taxes. Competent enough to buy a case of beer and drive around bleep-faced with his kid in the car.

Guaman was competent enough to understand the court system when he got locked up for beating up a cop. And a firefighter. Or the numerous times he was locked up for driving around without a license in a car that his brother – who is also illegal – was able to register using the X number loophole in the law that Deval Patrick refuses to close despite legislation being passed last year to do just that.

But now Guaman, who has been in this country for nearly a decade, cannot understand English or Spanish well enough to stand trial for the murder of Matthew Denice according to an idiotic Massachusetts judge who was appointed by, you guessed it, Deval Patrick.

Judge Janet Kenton-Walker ordered the taxpayers to pay for not just an interpreter for this murderous lowlife…but an interpreter who speaks his indigenous language, Quechua. By the way, in the long months since Guaman hit the 23-year-old college grad and dragged him to his death (and backed up over the body to try to get away) the illegal has been not in a jail but in a hospital being evaluated.

“Because of his unique cultural background and, particularly because of his unique language, the court finds that at the present time Guaman has significant intellectual deficits that require a finding that he is not presently competent to stand trial.”

Appointed by Patrick in 2009, Kenton-Walker has already proved her fondness for coddling violent criminals.

Last year a Tyngsboro child rapist pleaded guilty to raping a 19-month old INFANT. Kenton-Walker sentenced him PROBATION. No jail time for scarring an infant for life, and confessing to doing it.

Kenton-Walker also has an affinity for accused gun-toting drug dealers. Earlier this year Worcester Police were livid when she let Hector Pinero out on bail after he was busted with a loaded firearm…while he was out on bail in another case.

Kenton-Walker lowered the bail of another gunman accused of a shooting that same January week. So much for gun control.

The damage that Kenton-Walker has done to the family of Matthew Denise is unconscionable, but it is not the only glaring example of how she – and so many judges like her – have put is all in grave danger.

Remember, Guaman’s passenger in the truck the day he killed Matthew Denice fled the country. Guaman’s wife, who is also here illegally, was locked up for driving without a license on the very same street where Denice took his last breaths. Guaman’s brother, also here illegally, was allowed to pick up the murder weapon…a truck he put on the road despite not having a license or insurance.

This is beyond outrageous.

michele@michelemcphee.com

 


JOHN FRESOLOBY MICHELE MCPHEE
State Representative John Fresolo, a Worcester Democrat, is the subject of a House investigation that includes allegations that he took lascivious photos of his privates and sent them to a State House computer, several State House sources said.

Fresolo is also suspected of inflating his travel reimbursements. He submitted per diem slips for 220 days of travel from Worcester to the State House, but no one on Beacon Hill remembers seeing Fresolo that frequently.

Fresolo is now on paid administrative leave but could be forced to resign.

“It’s bad enough that he pulled an Anthony Weiner and had pictures of his penis on State House computers, but then he tried to get his per diem pumped up. No one puts in for 220 days of commuting and with his commute that’s a lot of money,” a state representative told me tonight on the condition of anonymity.

The news comes on the same day that lawmakers underwent ethics training under the golden dome, the representative said.

Fresolo has already served seven terms in the legislature, according to his profile. According to his legislative website he has not filed a bill since 2008.


What happened to pledges from Senate President Therese Murray and Speaker of the House Bob DeLeo that ethics was the first priority going forward? No longer would lawmakers stuff their bras with hundred dollar bills like former Senator Dianne Wilkerson or sexually harass the elderly in Lowell like former State Senator turned predator Jimmy Marzilli.

Since the Boston Bra Stuffer Wilkerson went to

Stuffing hundred dollar bills into her bra at a Boston eatery
Stuffing hundred dollar bills into her bra at a Boston eatery

the federal pen and Marzilli went to the nuthouse (and was later caught getting busy in his shorts in broad daylight while watching his neighbor) we have seen:

* A state rep in Everett Stephen “Stat” Smith locked up for voter fraud in Everett. Prosecutors said he voted for himself at least twice. How many times did he vote for Obama? How many votes did his mother cast? His big punishment…He can’t run for office for five years. Good God.
* An Everett City Councilor running for Stat’s seat just had an alleged meltdown where he berated the staff of a restaurant and threatened to send the health inspector in there because he didn’t like his seat. That pol, Wayne Matewsky, even spewed out a “Do you know who I am?” when the waitress told him the tables were full, according to witnesses. He was upset that he had to sit next to a disabled child.
* A state senator Karen Spilka claims she can work as a full-time lawyer at a firm that has clients looking for state money and a full-time lawmaker who funnels those very monies to those very clients. Hello?
* A state rep from Barnstable, Brian Mannal, writes a bill about trying to let pedophiles hide upon their release. He failed to mention that he had made more than $143,000 representing those very pedophiles as a publicly-funded defender – in addition to his state representative salary that he began collecting in 2012.
* Newton state senator, Cynthia Creem, wrote alimony legislation that, in a shocking coincidence, benefits her law practice. She is a partner in a family law practice that will benefit from the new law.
* What about this mooooo-ron. Paul A. Schmid, a Westport Democrat who has a second job as a farmer? He literally got a black eye last year in an altercation with his angry cow, recently filed legislation that would potentially give him a 50 percent personal income tax credit if he purchases water conservation equipment. Let me quote the Fraudfather of Lawrence former state rep turned Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua on this one. “Manure.” As the Fraudfather would say. Manure.

It is unconscionable that these lawmakers use loopholes in the laws to line their own pockets…or worse, write laws that fatten their bank accounts. In New Hampshire lawmakers are paid less than $300 BUCKS a year and there was a brouhaha over whether they should be allowed to take free ski lift passes to promote tourism. Here in Massachusetts some of our assorted lowlife solons make up to $100,000 to find new schemes to rip us off. Some of them are even walking out with priceless works of art and bloodstained Civil War battle flags, according to a roster of missing State House artifacts.

Thanks a lot Murray and DeLeo. You really lived up to that promise made back when Dianne Wilkerson was caught shoving hundreds in her bra and Marzilli was murmuring in a woman’s ear, “The sex is sweet. The sex is sweet. You know you want it.” Just like the taxpayers…we must think this type of sex is sweet because we keep voting these clowns in.

michele@michelemcphee.com


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By Michele McPhee

I see the Massachusetts Parole Board didn’t learn its lesson when Woburn Police Officer Jack Maguire was shot dead by a scumbag parolee who spent his entire life committing felony assaults and robberies.

In another questionable ruling a guy convicted of murdering two Massachusetts’ cops, that’s right, TWO, was granted parole last week.

Juan Ortiz, now 50, was convicted of the 1985 murders of Springfield police officers Alain Beuregard and Michael Schiavina. That terrible night on Ebbins Street in Springfield was the first time in Massachusetts’ history that two cops were killed in the line of duty in the same incident. But, apparently it is easy to forget Schiavani’s siblings and fiance and Beuregard’s wife and kid.

Juan Ortiz and his brother Eduardo used an illegal .357 Magnum in the slayings. Eduardo was the triggerman, but Juan was convicted of second-degree murder as part of the joint venture. The brothers were hunting another man they intended to kill when they were pulled over and the officers were gunned down trying to remove a combative Juan Ortiz from the car. Eduardo did us all a favor and killed himself as police closed in the following day as he hid like a coward.

Now the Parole Board is doing Juan Ortiz a favor by releasing him in 18 months. So, that means that Ortiz served about 13 ½ years for each of the cops’ lives. To make matters worse, or better, depending on your point of view, he will be allowed to move to Chicago to “be with his family,” according to the Parole Board.

The two Springfield officers’ murdered that night will not get that same courtesy. Ever. Despicable. And even more disgusting is the Parole Board’s own admission that Ortiz denied responsibility for the murders at his last four parole hearings, writing that he “displayed little sense of personal responsibility.”

But alas the cop killer had an awakening after he served 20 years. He wanted out and suddenly he said “I did everything my brother did except pull the trigger.”

Exactly. What should disturb everyone in the Commonwealth who don’t have short memories if the murderer of two police officers can get parole who can’t? Sadly those of us who live with child killers and rapists and cop shooters and other assorted lowlife on parole know the answer to that question: Anybody and Everybody.

Want proof of that beyond Dominic Cinelli, who was purportedly serving two life sentences when he murdered Woburn Police Officer Jack Maguire a day after Christmas three years ago, parolees reoffend? Let’s take the case of another two-time convicted killer Terrell Muhammed. In 1986 he murdered a young mother named Angela Skeet in Dorchester at a neighborhood record store in a robbery gone awry. Shockingly he served a paltry six years for that homicide. Upon his release, shockingly, he killed again. This time his victim was Boston Police officer Tom Rose.

One would think that after killing a cop while on parole for killing a young mom the law-abiding taxpayers would never have to see Muhammed’s ugly murderous mug again. But this is Massachusetts. Muhammed served a scant 15 years for the murder of BPD Officer Tom Rose – twice as much time as he served for the cold-blooded killing of Skeet – and was released again.

Does it come as a surprise that he tried to run down and kill two Rhode Island police officers who were on his tail because he stole a flat-screen TV from a veteran’s hospital? Not to me. Now Muhammed is looking at another 13-year sentence in that state. I’m sure the Cranston cops who were almost killed are grateful to the Massachusetts Parole Board for sending them a convicted cop killer and woman murderer.

“Nothing has changed much since they let my father’s killer out the first time,” said Tom Rose, who is currently carrying on his father’s legacy as a BPD officer.

Rose, sadly, is all too right with that. Guess who is up for parole next month? Remember Jeffrey Curley, the little boy who was lured into a car by two NAMBLA pedophiles with the promise of a new bike? The little boy who was smothered after he refused their advances and dumped in plastic barrel? Well, his grotesque killer Charles Jaynes is eligible for parole and has a hearing March 19, Jeffrey’s father Bob said.

“I have been dreading this day for a long time,” Bob Curley said.

Poor Bob Curley just suffered through court hearings because this sicko Jaynes wanted to change his name. To Manasseh-Invictus Auric Thutmose V. I kid you not. He said it was a violation of his rights as a Wiccan to deny him. Gratefully the court did deny the name change.

Hopefully the Parole Board is as smart next month.

 

 

 


January 8, 2013

Michele McPhee

Killed by an illegal drunk driver in August 2011 in Milford, MA
Killed by an illegal drunk driver in August 2011 in Milford, MA. The Ecuadorian man successfully argued that he needs a translator who speaks his dialect of Quichua…earning him another delay. 

 

“I was not only shocked, I was offended,’’ says Maureen Maloney, just hours after the illegal – and drunk – driver who killed her son Matthew Denice, 23, strode into a criminal courthouse with rosary beads around his neck.

“One would think that if someone truly believed in God, they would not have fled the scene after striking someone on a motorcycle with a large pickup truck,’’ she said. “It felt like a mockery of religion. Rosary beads outside his white t-shirt for everyone to see.”

Accused killer Nicolas Guaman has become masterful at making a mockery out of not only spirituality, but the Massachusetts judicial system.

Today a competency hearing for the illegal 35-year-old Ecuadorian charged with killing Denice was postponed because the taxpayer-funded interpreter could not speak a dialect of Quichua, the defendant’s primary language. The interpreter spoke Quichua, but not the dialect from Guaman’s native village.

Guaman’s taxpayer-funded lawyer objected to the translator for the illegal Ecuadorian and he earned a third reprieve from a hearing to see if he’s mentally able to comprehend that he killed someone while guzzling Budweisers around Milford with his six-year-old kid and another passenger in a truck registered to his brother. The brother is also in the country illegally.

Another wasted day in court for the Denice family that went home dejected.

Guaman, meanwhile, went back to his taxpayer-funded medical ward to eat some more taxpayer-funded food and snuggle under his taxpayer-funded blanket. And of course a taxpayer-funded correction officer will be forced to watch him to insure that the illegal – whose criminal record includes assaulting a police officer and a firefighter –– doesn’t off himself with a taxpayer-funded fork.

“It’s a horrific nightmare,’’ Maloney tells me.

That nightmare is not likely to end anytime soon for the people who loved Matthew Denice. Every day like today they have to relive the awful detail that Matthew Denice did not die when Guaman slammed into him. He died after he was dragged a quarter mile and was run over again when Guaman tried to flee the scene.

Guaman’s son kicked police officers as they cuffed Guaman. Why wouldn’t he? The kid had seen his father do it before. The passenger in the truck that day has since fled the country.

If Secure Communities had been in place in Massachusetts Guaman would have been bounced out of the country for the assaults on the police officer and firefighter, especially given that he also had a home invasion charge and had been locked up three other times for driving without a license in the seven years since he snuck into the USA.

Does anyone really believe that this lowlife can’t understand yet another criminal proceeding without an interpreter who speaks his dialect? Does anyone even care?

The Denice family wastes day after day sitting in court waiting for justice for Matthew. But Governor Deval Patrick doesn’t care about them. They are just law-abiding taxpayers. Remember, he told us: “it wasn’t an illegal who killed ‘that man.’ It was a drunk driver.” He couldn’t remember Denice’s name but he certainly had recall when he told a group of illegals camped outside his State House office, “I’m on your side. I’ve said it a million times. I’m on your side.”

Patrick is proving whose side he is on again.

The governor and his cohort RMV Registrar Rachel Kaprelian have usurped a law passed overwhelmingly by their own party in the House and the Senate to require proof of residency to register a vehicle – a deadly weapon. Guaman’s brother, who, remember, is also here illegally, utilized the so-called X-number registration loophole to put the truck that killed Denice, on the road. The outrage was great enough that legislators passed a law requiring proof of residence to register a car. Patrick vetoed it. The legislature overrode Patrick’s veto. As of January 1, that law was to take effect.

Don’t count on it because Patrick does not give a rat’s rear-end about the taxpaying, law-abiding victims in this state. He and

Kaprelian, a former State Rep, and Deval Patrick have decided that a utility bill is good enough proof of residency.

What a crock. I can’t get my Fast Lane residential discount without my license, condo docs, AND two utility bills. By the way, cell phone bills are not acceptable for Fast Lane, but are acceptable to put a deadly weapon on the road?

More than a year and a half after Matthew Denice was buried his killer is still playing the system. Thanks Massachusetts for coddling yet another illegal who has mastered the game.

 


TWO BOOK SIGNINGS COMING UP IN DECEMBER

 

It’s a Mystery to Me
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 AT 7:00 PM COMMUNITY ROOM, ROBBINS LIBRARY

 

Join the Friends of the Robbins Library in December for its program “It’s a Mystery to Me” featuring an accomplished trio of mystery writers who will describe the writing process- getting that first idea, creating characters, doing research, and developing a daily writing schedule.  Come hear authors Edith Maxwell, Michelle McPhee and Steve Ulfelder on Tuesday, December 11th at 7:00 pm in the Community Room of the Robbins Library.

Edith Maxwell, aka Tace Baker is the author of Speaking of Murder, a mystery featuring Quaker linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau, which comes out in September, 2012, from Barking Rain Press. Under her own name, Edith writes the Local Foods Mystery series, featuring organic farmer Cam Flaherty and the Locavore Club.

Michele McPhee is an Emmy-nominated investigative reporter and host of The Michele McPhee show on AM 680 WRKO. A veteran crime journalist, she is the best-selling author of five true crime titles: “A Professor’s Rage;” “A Date With Death;” “Heartless – The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Baby;” “When Evil Rules;” and “A Mob Story.” McPhee’s investigation into the Harvard-PhD who is accused of a murderous rampage at the University of Alabama, “A Professor’s Rage,” is slated to become a television movie.

Steve Ulfelder is co-owner of Flatout Motorsports Inc., a Massachusetts company that builds race cars., and author of the Conway Sax mysteries. His first novel, Purgatory Chasm, was named Best First Mystery of 2011 by RT Book Reviews and was nominated for Edgar and Anthony awards. His second novel, The Whole Lie, was released in 2012, and two more Conway books are in the pipeline.
Learn about the mystery writing process and come meet these accomplished authors on December 11th.  We look forward to seeing you there!  This program is free and open to the public.

AND THEN in LYNN THURSDAY DEC. 13

An Evening with Michele McPhee


By Michele McPhee: EXCLUSIVE

The accused drug-dealing, machine-gun toting Pop Warner coach busted by Cambridge cops this month is a legal assistant for disgraced former Senator Anthony Galluccio and was driving a car registered to Galluccio’s mother.

Shane McCarthy, 24, was pulled over by Cambridge Police on Oct. 12 driving a car registered to Galluccio’s mother, Nancy, several law enforcement sources said.

As McCarthy was questioned in Nancy Galluccio’s leased car, Cambridge Police Detective Angel Barbosa searched the coach’s home at 343 Broadway and found a Cobray 11, 9 millimeter machine gun with a “fire suppressor,” two fully-loaded cartridges, 1.8 ounces of marijuana and plastic baggies.

After McCarthy’s arrest on charges of possession with the intent to distribute a class D drugs in a school zone, possession of a machine gun, felony possession of a firearm, the Cambridge Pop Warner program fired him.

Gallucio could not immediately be reached for comment. The former Cambridge Democrat has been convicted of drunk driving three times, but his 1984 conviction  was pardoned by former Governor William Weld. He was busted for drunk driving again in 1997 when he was a Cambridge City Councilor.

He was elected to the Senate in 2007 but resigned in 2010 after a third drunk driving conviction. In October 2009 Cambridge Police gave the drunken Senator a ride home, but within hours he went back out and slammed his vehicle into a minivan and fled the scene.

Galluccio pleaded guilty and was sentenced to house arrest with a court-ordered breath-alcohol testing device. Three days later he blew booze into the device but blamed his toothpaste for the positive reading. A judge didn’t buy it and sentenced Galluccio to a year in prison. He served five months after resigning from the Senate.

The firm Galluccio & Watson opened in Cambridge last year. McCarthy worked as a law assistant to Galluccio, police said.


Here are my Top Ten things Obama should be doing instead of Letterman.

  1. Go to an Intelligence Briefing.
  2. Figure out how to stop soldiers from being murdered with American taxpayer-funded guns in Afghanistan.
  3. Ask Eric Holder to resign.
  4. Find the missing Fast and Furious guns.
  5. Tell his pal Ralph Lauen to stop manufacturing those ridiculous berets.
  6. Sign letters to families of falle n Navy Seals&ldash;without a computerized pen.
  7. Have a beer summit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  8. Transition 47 million Americans off “transitional” assistance aka food stamps.
  9. Ask the DOJ why they coordinated with a liberal blog to spin the Black Panther nul pros story.
  10. Tell us the truth about the warnings the State Department received about the plan to attack the US Consulate in Libya.

What are you top ten? Comment below.


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