Boston mob bosses Bulger, Flemmi, ordered to pay victim’s family a combined $30M

September 24th, 2009 Head of Boston Globe union under fire on financesBOSTON — The executive board of The Boston Globe's largest union says union president Daniel Totten appears to have violated its financial rules. In a letter sent Thursday to Boston Newspaper Guild membership, the board said it had canceled Totten's union credit card and suspended his check-signing authority.

September 24th, 2009 Boston cabbies threaten Hyatt boycott over layoffsBOSTON — A union representing about 1,700 Boston cab drivers says it will boycott Hyatt hotels in the city unless the company rehires nearly 100 fired housekeepers. The Boston Globe reports that the Boston Taxi Drivers Association made the threat in a letter to the company.

August 29th, 2009 Ex-Ireland envoy, EMC chairman Egan dies in BostonBOSTON — Richard Egan, who rose from Boston street kid to the U.S. ambassador to Ireland after making millions of dollars founding data storage giant EMC Corp., has died.

July 28th, 2009 Girl left in Boston cab; driver avoids punishmentBOSTON — Boston police have dropped plans to suspend a cab driver who unwittingly drove off with a sleeping 5-year-old girl. Joseph Cohen tells The Associated Press that he drove a family of six home from Logan International Airport on Sunday.

July 28th, 2009 Girl left in Boston cab; driver faces punishmentBOSTON — A Boston taxi driver faces a possible suspension after unwittingly driving off with a sleeping 7-year-old girl in the back of his cab, but his supporters say the fault lies with the child's family, not the driver. Joseph Cohen picked up the family — several adults and the child — at Logan International Airport Sunday and gave them a ride in his minivan to their home in the city's Mattapan neighborhood.

July 24th, 2009 Judge rules for victims' kin in Mass. mob caseBOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts has tentatively awarded nearly $2 million to the families of three people allegedly murdered by fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger and his cohort, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.

July 16th, 2009 Mass. philanthropist steps up for Madoff victimsBOSTON — A Massachusetts philanthropist who lost most of his personal fortune in the Bernard Madoff scandal has paid $5 million out of his own pocket to restore the retirement savings of employees who lost money in the multibillion dollar scam. Ronald I. Lappin on Wednesday made up for the lost savings of the 60 employees of his company, Shetland Properties Inc., and of his charity, the Robert I.

July 10th, 2009 Boston mobster says watched Bulger kill girlfriendBOSTON — New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi says he watched his cohort James "Whitey" Bulger strangle Flemmi's 26-year-old-girlfriend. Flemmi says that in 1981, he lured Debra Davis to a vacant home where Bulger was waiting.

July 10th, 2009 Boston mobster 'Rifleman' Flemmi describes killingBOSTON — New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi on Friday described watching a cohort strangle his girlfriend as a "very traumatic moment" — but then admitted he pulled out her teeth afterward so her body would be difficult to identify. Flemmi, 75, showed no emotion as he described the 1981 killing of Debra Davis, 26, a woman he began dating when she was 17.

July 9th, 2009 Mobster 'Rifleman' Flemmi takes stand in BostonBOSTON — New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi described his long relationship with the FBI as an informant during testimony Thursday in wrongful death lawsuits filed by three families who say the FBI failed to control Flemmi and fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. The families of Deborah Hussey, Debra Davis and Louis Litif say the FBI is responsible for their deaths because it protected Flemmi and Bulger and allowed them to avoid prosecution for their crimes.

July 3rd, 2009 Canadian soldier killed in AfghanistanOTTAWA — A Canadian soldier in Afghanistan's Kandahar province was killed Friday when his armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb seconds after the senior commander of coalition forces in the province narrowly missed the same explosive device. Canadian Brig.-Gen.

June 12th, 2009 Globe: 3 possible buyers of newspaper emergeBOSTON — The Boston Globe reports that three area businessmen, including a member of the family that once owned the newspaper, have emerged as possible buyers. The paper reported Friday that those who have expressed interest are Stephen Pagliuca, a private equity executive and co-owner of the NBA's Boston Celtics; Jack Connors, cofounder of a Boston advertising firm and chairman of Partners HealthCare; and Stephen Taylor, a former Globe executive whose family sold the paper to the New York Times Co.

May 1st, 2009 AP: Ad yields no new complaints in Craigslist caseBOSTON — An ad placed on Craigslist by prosecutors has not turned up any new accusations against the Boston University medical student charged with killing one masseuse and robbing a second one. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday that police have not been contacted by any other potential victims since Philip Markoff's arrest last week.

April 24th, 2009 Boston police Craigslist ad seeks victimsBOSTON — Boston police have placed an ad on Craigslist in an attempt to find other women who may have been victimized by a medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist. Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County prosecutors, said Thursday the posting was made in the "erotic services" section of Craigslist.

April 24th, 2009 Prosecutors' Craigslist ad seeks victimsBOSTON — Prosecutors have placed an ad on Craigslist in an attempt to find other women who may have been victimized by a medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist. Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County prosecutors, said Thursday the posting was made in the "erotic services" section of Craigslist.