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BOSTON--Senate President William M. Bulger said yesterday he was libeled by celebrity lawyer and Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz at a judicial hearing last week, but that a lawsuit would be a waste of time...
...hearing on the nomination of Bulger's top aide, Paul Mahoney, to a judgeship in the Malden District Court, turned into a war of words between Bulger and Dershowitz...
Dershowitz raised questions about Mahoney's defense of Bulger during the 75 State Street investigation and about Bulger's status in the probe. Harvey Silverglate, a friend of Dershowitz' represented developer Harold Brown in the case...
Dershowitz's accusations sparked an uncharacteristic outcry from an angry Senate President William M. Bulger that made headlines in both of Boston's daily newspapers, which played the clash as a classic episode of ethnic political strife...
Dershowitz said that at the height of the State Street controversy, Mahoney asked an unnamed Boston Globe reporter of Irish descent why he would believe "a man with a name like Silverglate instead of men with names like Bulger or Mahoney...