Did Roy Moore Help Sue Throw Bob Chappell Off the Yacht? Did Tamerlan Decapitate a Waltham Friend?

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Bob Chappell’s widow, Sue Neill-Fraser, has been languishing in Australia’s Risdon Prison, convicted of throwing her husband to his death-by-drowning in 2009 in Hobart, Tasmania. But the gossip on the street is that the dastardly deed was done by police and that the scene in the harbor is rife with drug crime involving police.

You’ll never hear a word about that from Mainstream Media.

What about the “triple murders’ in Waltham, near Boston, that occurred in 2011? Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev the guilty party? The mainstream media has often mentioned him as a suspect, saying that victim Brendan Mess was Tamerlan’s “best friend.”

Media also promulgated the unsupported statement by FBI that Ibraghim Todashev – just before he got Todashev’d – was drafting a confession to the Waltham murders.

Have we come to the point in the Dumbing Down process where we accept a media report that gives no “second source,” much less any investigation of an allegation?  Luckily, during the April 2015 trial of Jahar Tsarnaev, the defense demanded that the prosecution show its hand re evidence of Tamerlan’s connection to the Waltham murders.

The prosecution said “Uh…er…uh.. we ain’t got nuttin, OK?”

Roy Moore Smeared – Standard Procedure

Most likely I do not have to explain the presence of Roy Moore’s name in the title of this article. It’s well known that the Washington Post decided to smear that candidate in the Alabama race for US Senate.

Sadly, the audience is buzzing with questions about this smearing such as “Will people of Alabama resent the intrusion from WaPo and therefore support Roy Moore?”  Or “Should Moore’s opponent, Doug Jones, go quiet on abortion?”

Nobody is saying “Excu-use me! How can we let a newspaper run a story from a person alleging that candidate So-and-So did such-and-such, with no further consideration of how the public might analyse this grievance?”

As I said, the media accused Tamerlan of (maybe) killing three men in Waltham six years ago – one of whom, Brendan Mess, was his pal.  Today I asked Josée Lépine if she had any dirt on this. She provided me with a great article by B Blake. It was originally posted at a website called thebostonmarathonbombings.weebly.com.

Note: Whilst visiting that site, I found many other good pieces, with loads of intelligent comments!

Blake’s Excellent Research

I will now print a large excerpt from Part 2 of that article which was entitled “Police corruption: Drug gangs, steroids and fighting gyms. Who really had a motive to kill the Waltham three?”

Note: the entire rest of this Gumshoe article is by Blake, as written on November 20, 2013 – that is, seven months after the Boston Marathon. I have abridged it and added bolding and bracketed comments — Mary Maxwell.

Dirty Cops and Drug Gangs

In an earlier post, I [B Blake] explored the accusation that Ibragim Todashev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were the murderers, in a joint enterprise.   Tsarnaev’s alleged motive in 2013 was anti-Semitism [can you imagine!], but in 2011, when Tsarnaev had been eliminated from enquiries, the motive was markedly different: internecine vengeance and exemplary punishment in the drugs trade in the greater Boston area.

This part of the article examines that possibility and the evidence for it, asking who else could have committed the murders, why did they act, and how did they reach that stage? Moreover, why were the murders not investigated thoroughly and who stood to lose if they were?

With the victims’ known connections to the criminal world, it is reasonable to ask if they were police informants. Court records indicate that all three were known to police and had been previously charged with criminal offences ranging from drug possession to violence.

Corruption in Boston and its links to fighting gyms

A string of corruption scandals in recent years reportedly left Boston Police Department with the title of ‘America’s most corrupt police department’. The corruption manifested itself in all manner of ways, with numerous recorded incidences of officer involvement in:

• prostitution and protection rings
• taking bribes from known criminals in exchange for not arresting them
• extortion rackets
• class A drug dealing
• armed robbery
• planting evidence at the scenes of crimes in order to implicate innocent parties
• plots to kill other officers or individuals perceived as threats
• regularly informing criminals of any investigations that were being conducted into them, including:
• endangering informants by imparting their personal information – in particular any informants that may have ‘snitched’ on the criminals

It is also evident that Boston Police department had been rife with another problem: the misuse and distribution of illegal steroids. In fact, the problem was so widespread that the US Attorney’s Office ordered an urgent investigation into the matter.

A small sample through the years…

Feb 2006: America’s largest underground steroid lab is discovered in Canton, Massachusetts. The yield: 10 guns, 100,000 pills, huge quantities of syringes, liquids, powders used in the making of illegal steroids, and the drug oxycodone.

July 2006: Three serving Boston police officers arrested in an FBI sting operation in Miami, Florida (Roberto Pulido, 41, Carlos Pizarro, 36, and Nelson Carrasquillo, 35). The charges:

• drug trafficking cocaine and heroin and oxcodone
• identity theft, smuggling illegal immigrants
• planning to plant a gun at the scene of a crime in order to falsely implicate a rival in a murder
• providing hired ‘muscle’ at illicit prostitution parties, and
• running a large operation in the sale and distribution of illegal anabolic steroids, believed to be facilitated through fighting gyms

It was revealed that Pulido had been previously suspended from the force no less than six times for ‘official misconduct’ yet was never investigated further or charged in connection with his failings.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis was also brought in to rid the BPD of corruption and reinstall public confidence in the service. [Did not do so!]

August 2007: Known steroid user and Boston police Officer Jose Ortiz was caught in an FBI sting operation involving cocaine trafficking and extortion rackets. Ortiz had been working for local Boston drug dealers and at one point showed up in uniform at the workplace of a drug dealer (who was also a police informant), openly threatening to kill him and his family if he did not repay more than $260,000 he owed in previous drug debts.

At the time of his arrest, Ortiz screamed ‘I’m a cop! I’m a Boston cop!’ and depressingly, it transpired that Ortiz, like Pulido, had been suspended from the department on six previous occasions.

January 2008: A 164-page internal audit revealed that members of Boston police had stolen hundreds of bags of drugs seized in over 1000 separate criminal cases. The drugs included heroin, cocaine, marijuana, oxycodone and steroids, all of which had been housed in a police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park, Greater Boston.

“I Can Fix It” – Ed Davis

After a three-year investigation that at one point included 25 to 30 investigators, including several FBI agents under Richard Deslaurier, not one single officer was ever disciplined over the matter or even arrested – let alone charged.

“It’s always unsettling when a thing like this takes place. When you recruit from the human race, you do have issues that pop up once in a while.”

Another more recent [2012] comment by a local gym user: :  “This is probably the best gym in Boston. I used to go to BSC in Waltham, and all of the trainers are using steroids”

The Armenian Connection and Watertown Police Corruption

Just three months before the brutal killings, notorious Watertown gang leader Safwan “Sammy” Madarati, 36, was arrested and charged with an array of offences including conspiracy to distribute and traffic over 1,000 kilograms marijuana, cocaine, oxycodone and ecstasy in an extensive operation that extended its reaches all the way to New York and Canada. [A commenter on weebly.com says Sammy is not Armenian but is 100% Syrian]

All in all, 20 members of the gang were eventually apprehended and charged. Over $3 million was eventually seized, along with bars of gold bullion

One of those arrested in the operation was indeed a former Watertown police officer, 45 year old Roberto Velasquez-Johnson. He pleaded guilty to all the charges he faced in connection with the gang’s activities, including: Conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation and Several counts of making false statements during the course of a Federal investigation.[ [Yikes!]

He had been regularly tipping off the gang about the investigation that was being conducted into their activities.  How do Madarati’s gang and Velasquez-Johnson fit into the brutal murders of the Waltham 3? Eric Weissman was known to source his drugs from Madarati, and what is more, there is a strong possibility that Velasquez-Johnson told Madarati something he should not: the name of the person who informed on him.

Madarati: The Wiretaps and Court Documents

We obtained court documents relating to the case, and were also able to obtain transcripts from some of the various wiretaps: and they made for extremely disturbing reading. Not only were corrupt officers informing Madarati of any investigations that were underway into his gang, they were also telling him who may have informed on him.

What is worse, Madarati was prepared to act on that information and he regularly did so. He demonstrated a willingness to violently attack people who owed money in drug debts or were perceived to be ‘rivalling’ his own ambitions, inflict savage punishment beatings, invade homes to get revenge for thefts, and ‘send a message’ to any individual he believed was interfering with his operations.

Then, in April 2011, Velasquez-Johnson gave Madarati the home addresses of two Watertown and Waltham police officers so that he could intimidate them and protect his drug distribution activities. [Don’t forget the claim re police-drug-involvement in Sandy Bay Tasmania.]

Pretending to be from the Water Department to gain access to the man’s Cambridge home, the armed officers allegedly zip cuffed the victim before viciously beating him and repeatedly kicking him in the face. Madarati had planned an armed and masked invasion of the two officers’ homes and commented that they ‘needed to be dealt with‘ and that ‘a fucking message has to be sent‘.

Shortly afterwards, whilst conducting surveillance on Loukas’ property, the officers observed two masked men on the roof of the home attempting to gain access. They contacted the local police and reported it as a ‘robbery in progress’ so as not to break their cover.

Days after a 2010 shooting, a call was intercepted between Madarati and another gang member, during which Madarati said: ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, he’s [Kabba] shot four times and his stomach, he’s ah, the woman she’s the one who took the hit, because they walked in to kill him, and they shot him, and the bullets went through the woman. And seven people got killed that night.’

The wiretaps also recorded numerous incidences of Madarati discussing his dislike of police informants in general, saying if he ever discovered someone in Boston who did such a thing, they would surely pay the price. The ‘message’ was unequivocal: do not inform on Safwan Madarati. So the question is, did Madarati follow up on that threat?

A local café owner who described Mess as ‘like a son to me,’ noted there was something ‘very wrong’ when Mess and Weissman visited his café (Brookline Lunch Café) one evening in mid-August 2011. Jamal Abu Rubieh remarked that the twosome were quiet and very tense and gone was the ‘typical banter’ he usually had with the two who visited the café on a regular basis.

Abu Rubieh says things became even more tense when a bald, blue-eyed man twice their age arrived. The two looked visibly scared. All three talked for about an hour, after which, the bald man left.

Rubieh noted: [Mess] was really serious and he wasn’t himself’  ‘I have never seen them like that before. They looked frightened’. The man, who Abu Rubieh had never seen before and has not seen since, had a thick Boston accent.  We have been unable to discover if Rubieh was ever interviewed by police following the deaths of the three.

Maxwell adds: For B Blake’s discussion of “The Bigger Picture”, go here.

I really think Roy Moore, the Tsarnaevs, and Sue Neill-Fraser should use Blake’s research in their own defense-of-reputation. Why wait for any further proof that the media prints whatever suits its overlords to print?

–Mary W Maxwell was Moore’s competitor in the Republican primary this year.