Do you suppose Stevie Flemmi watched any of his previous nemesis Hank Brennan’s newest courtroom humiliations in Dedham final week?
Most likely not — the serial-killing companion of Hank’s late consumer (and hero) Whitey Bulger is 91 now. Stevie is locked away for all times in some secret federal jail reserved for treacherous rat bastards like each Flemmi and Bulger.
However let the file present that it was “the Rifleman” who at Bulger’s 2013 trial was the primary witness to make an entire ass of Hank Brennan throughout considered one of his trademark nonsensical cross examinations.
Now Brennan is the $250,000 “particular” persecutor within the second Karen Learn homicide trial in Norfolk Superior Courtroom.
Historically, a prosecutor is meant to be a white hat — a great man or, failing that, a minimum of trustworthy and truthful.
It’s a function for which Hammered Hank Brennan is spectacularly miscast. And so it was that he melted down on the finish of the trial, first in one other sequence of disastrous cross examinations, after which in a bumblingly unhealthy closing argument to the jury.
In his interminable closing, Hank continued his unrelenting assault on the English language, at one level telling the jury that “the timeline is just not in dis-poot.”
Not dispute, dis-poot.
He additionally forgot the names of his personal two fork-tongued professional witnesses, Shanon Burgess and Judson Welcher. He mixed their names right into a composite “Shanon Welcher.”
Not less than he didn’t get into dental points. Earlier within the week, with a forensic doctor, Brennan inquired about tooth that he referred to as “inscissors.” Not incisors, inscissors.
They’re not making Mob mouthpieces like they used to. Nor are the standard Norfolk County jury-intimidation ways working anymore.
At Learn’s first trial final yr, thug ex-Boston cop Brian Albert and his punk nephew, Colin Albert, confirmed as much as glare on the jury throughout closings. Each Alberts had been no-shows Friday. As a substitute, the jurors needed to file by a unique Keystone Kop, State Police Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik.
Bukhenik is the as-yet unfired member of the “detective” unit that strung up Karen Learn again in 2022. Yuriy materialized on the courthouse Friday in a black swimsuit with pants cuffs absurdly above his ankles.
The swimsuit seemed like one thing off the rack from KGB Haberdashery, to be worn solely to a USSR commissar’s funeral in Vladivostok in 1977.
Much more preposterous than Yuriy’s Sunday-go-to-meeting duds had been his striped white socks.
Black swimsuit and white socks. Critically, it was a full Kyiv. He seemed like one of many previous Wild and Loopy Guys on SNL.
When Karen Learn’s legal professionals noticed him lurking across the corridor, glowering on the jury and channeling his sinister Iron Curtain heritage, they complained.
Lastly, the hulking moron fled again into his boss DA Meatball Morrissey’s lair. Possibly somebody referred to as 911 to report a suspicious rubber ducky sighting someplace in Norfolk County, and he needed to scramble to Milton with sirens blaring.
Or maybe a housewife in Avon had posted one thing imply about Meatball Morrissey on Fb, and wanted a great talking-to, in Yuriy’s damaged English, a couple of witness-intimidation rap.
That is how Bukhenik earns the large bucks — $211,960 final yr. He loves screaming at younger rubber ducky-wielding mothers virtually as a lot as he relishes these $750-a-shift no-heavy-lifting F Troop particulars on the airport.
Regardless of fleeing his homeland, he now poses as an enormous Ukrainian patriot. Invincible in peace, invisible in battle, that’s Yuriy.
He’s large into the battle effort, though oddly, he prefers banging on the hoods of double-parking motorists dropping off their youngsters at Terminal C to returning to the previous USSR to toss grenades at Russian tanks.
Possibly that’s why Yuriy was roundly booed by Karen Learn supporters outdoors the courthouse as he took it on the lam Friday afternoon. Or maybe the gang was simply appalled by his unlucky sartorial selections.
However getting again to Hank Brennan, I knew again in 2013 what a crappy lawyer he was when he received his head handed to him by Stevie Flemmi. The Rifleman was testifying towards his companion in pedophilia and homicide, Whitey Bulger.
On cross, Hammered Hank simply stored yelling at Flemmi. The prosecutor lastly complained to the decide that Brennan had little interest in questioning Flemmi, and was merely making an attempt to “embarrass, humiliate, demean and badger the witness over and time and again.”
Sound acquainted? You possibly can’t train an previous Bulger hack new tips.
Throughout cross examinations, Hank abandons himself to a weird obsession with meals. Final week, with FBI witness Dr. Andrew Rentschler, he couldn’t cease asking him about ham sandwiches. He returned to the topic once more in his closing. Ham sandwiches.
In 2013, with Flemmi, Brennan turned fixated in regards to the alleged gourmand eating in WITSEC, the federal jail system for snitches.
Brennan: “It’s just like the Membership Med of federal services?”
Flemmi: “You actually assume so?”
Brennan: “You have got a retailer at your jail that doubles as a delicatessen.”
Flemmi: “That’s completely ridiculous.”
Brennan: “Are you able to get rib-eye steak?”
Flemmi: “If I gave a few of that meals to my canine, he’d chew me.”
It was comedian gold. And it wasn’t like Flemmi couldn’t have been dusted up.
In 2018, he was again in federal courtroom in Boston as a witness in a unique Mob homicide case. On cross-examination, the primary query Flemmi was requested was what number of murders he’d participated in over the a long time.
He had to consider it, add all of them up in his head.
“Most likely about 50,” Flemmi lastly answered.
After that admission, how rather more did the jury have to know?
Brennan may have give you an honest query like that, or a minimum of a much less ridiculous one than jailhouse steaks. However that may have required some thought. And as everybody can now see, to a battle of wits, Hammered Hank Brennan comes unarmed.
On that truth, there may be no dis-poot.
One final query earlier than the decision, this one for Yuriy Bukhenik.
Comrade, how lengthy do it’s important to put on these white socks to win the guess?
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