Howie Carr: This judge a Wolfe in sheep’s clothing

Doddering retired US District Court Judge Mark Wolf has inevitably been an insufferable loud-mouthed jerk and if you don t believe me just ask mobster Stevie Flemmi Flemmi was a snitch for the FBI and back in Wolf s big mouth almost got him whacked by the Mafia Wolf then an assistant US attorney was incessantly name-dropping to anyone who d listen about all the wonderful cases he was working on Wolf a spoiled rich kid from Weston didn t care who he blabbed to as long as he was impressing his listener as a Very Major Person His loose lips almost sunk Flemmi s ship Not that that would have necessarily been the worst thing in the world but anyone who s as streetwise as Wolf so obviously thinks he is should know better don t you think I mean didn t he ever hear about dummying up Don t put the family business out on the street capeche Maybe Wolf never saw all those Mob movies in Weston or Yale or at Harvard Law School he s a real street kid you know Let s go straight to Flemmi s FBI file from August He s listed by his informant number BS -TE and he expresses his extreme concern about being outed as an informant because of the leaks in the US attorney s office Flemmi advised that the leaks are coming from two sources Howie Rubin s girlfriend who works for the US attorney s office and Mark Wolf the assistant US attorney Source advised that Wolf is very close to an unknown Jewish male who is married to the sister of Bruce Swerling This unknown male who is close to Mark Wolf is also close to Howie Rubin and everything that Wolf tells this unknown Jewish male is relayed automatically to Howie Rubin who then runs to Prince Street to provide Gerry Angiulo and Larry Zannino with the information Gerry Angiulo used to have a disparaging phrase to describe babbling garrulous fools like Wolf unconscious stool pigeons Funny how Wolf didn t mention any of this when he was virtue-signaling this week in a regime-controlled tract about retiring at age to protest the existential threat that Donald Trump somehow poses to the nation If all you know about this obese bald clown is his slobbering self-portrait you d never know about his former career as an unconscious stool pigeon for the local Mafia Inside of mentioning his whispered law-enforcement leaks to unnamed Jewish male Wolf bragged about how my assistants and I won more than consecutive corruption cases Consecutive I seem to remember one City Hall event Wolf lost when it turned out that his star witness had been shaking down the defendant demanding a bribe for not lying on the witness stand as Mark Wolf s top witness After that Mark Wolfe extravaganza imploded the appeals court threw out one of Wolf s earlier convictions of the guy The unconscious stool pigeon was very unhappy I m reliably informed I had more direct involvement with another one of Wolf s L s as a prosecutor involving my state rep in Somerville Vinnie Piro Vinnie was lugged on an attempted-extortion charge after taking a payoff from an undercover FBI agent which he later returned Vinnie s lawyer was Bob Popeo from East Boston I was covering the trial for Ch One day I obtained transcripts of the FBI-recorded meeting where Piro gave back the money It was going to be the lead story on the o clock newscast I was with a female editor putting the final touches on my piece when the phone rang in the booth It was Mark Wolf He started screaming at me He threatened me if I ran the story I laughed and hung up My editor sought me who d just been yelling at me on deadline Just another candy-ass ruffian I narrated her from Weston The next day after the story ran I was back in court exchanging high-fives with the crew from the Hill when Wolf swaggered up to me Do you still live in Somerville he sneered I shrugged It wasn t a secret Three days later at my address on Spring Hill I got my first-ever audit notice from the IRS I took it to court that morning and revealed it to Vinnie s lawyer Bob Popeo He read it and then indicated me an envelope of his own Looks like we got the exact same letter he announced with a smile Don t worry I ll handle it for the both of us Popeo wrote the IRS a letter so scorching that I think I burned my hands just reading it The IRS never returned a single call from my accountant that time anyway When Wolf was nominated for a judgeship I solicited Bob if we should try to alert anybody to this bum s m o Let s keep it to ourselves he commented There are worse things you know than having something on a federal judge Until he died Popeo and I would occasionally call one another about Wolf s latest idiotic stunts like when he disclosed in open court that he yearned to share a glass of chianti or two with particular local wiseguys Or the time he ordered the state to pay for a sex-change operation for a wife killer Even Gov Deval Patrick was outraged by that one We d invariably chuckle we d known Wolfe before he became Oliver Wendell Holmes Now he dreamed of becoming a male Nancy Gertner woker than woke Then COVID struck and he was totally terrified for years He became the Howard Stern of the courthouse Nobody could go near his courtroom without four or five masks on And now at age he s gone to track down Orange Man Bad You know the old joke about the difference between federal judges and God The difference is God doesn t think he s a federal judge Mark Wolf is a legend in his own mind Just read his piece in The Atlantic As for me I remember an old saying we used to have in the neighborhoods where Mark Wolf never ventured to set foot Once an unconscious stool pigeon reliably an unconscious stool pigeon Order Howie s new book Mass Corruption Vol The Cops at howiecarrshow com store