Word: bulgers
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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...
Brown claimed during the 1988 controversy that Bulger accepted money through a former legal associate, Thomas Finnerty, in return for influence on the project. Bulger paid the money back within a year, and a federal investigation found no wrong-doing on his part...
Asked if he felt Dershowitz had libeled him, Bulger said...