Howie Carr: DA ‘Meatball’ cooked if more Karen Read emails, texts released

As bad as everything has been going lately for Norfolk County District Attorney Michael “Meatball” Morrissey, it may be about to get much, much worse, if we can read between the lines in yet another of his disastrous Karen Read-related criminal prosecutions. Meatball loathes Aidan Kearney, a/k/a Turtleboy, the blogger/journalist who led the fight to stop Morrissey’s attempted lynching of Karen Read. Karen Read is now free, but Turtleboy’s ridiculous prosecutions linger on. As part of discovery in the Turtleboy trial, Meatball and his equally corrupt minions were forced to turn over all sorts of material that the local hacks fervently wish to remain hidden from public view. Too late! The problem for Meatball is, all the humiliating documents are already in the hands of Turtleboy and his defense team. They’re just impounded, meaning they can’t be released publicly. Yet. This week Turtleboy was back in court in Dedham, asking Superior Court Judge Michael Doolin to release the smoking-gun emails from impoundment. Doolin said he’d rule within two weeks. Tick… tick… tick. How do we have a pretty good idea what’s in the impounded records? Let’s go directly to Turtleboy’s attorney, Tim Bradl, on Monday afternoon: “The fact that things are embarrassing or scandalous or cause negative light to be cast upon public officials, Your Honor, is not a reason to impound documents. Actually, it is a reason to release documents!” The sooner, the better. I’ve already composed the front-page headlines in my head, just based on what’s in the motions and the oral arguments. Meatball doesn’t want the emails and texts – some apparently from a secret non-governmental “burner” account he used to communicate with assorted hack pols and judges as well as assorted McAlberts – released. The prosecution’s argument for not allowing Turtleboy to spread the excruciatingly bad emails upon the public record: it might make Meatball look bad. As if he doesn’t already look terrible. And there might be yet another impact. “This might, you know, cause election shifts.” Election shifts? You mean Meatball’s favorability rating among county voters might decline from his current glittering post-verdict 4% level. Meatball’s latest special prosecutor in the courtroom Monday was  Robert “Triple Dip” Cosgrove. Like Morrissey, Triple Dip is a doddering, seventy-something courthouse stooge who never worked a day in his life. Now he has two – two! — state pensions worth $203,000 a year, plus his new salary as Meatball’s minion. Hence the moniker “Triple Dip.” Like his fellow failed special prosecutor Hank Brennan before him, Triple Dip is now basically functioning as a defense attorney. His client in this case is Meatball Morrissey. Forget putting Turtleboy back in jail. That ain’t happening. Triple Dip’s only job now is to beg Judge Doolin for more and more time before releasing the latest humiliations of Meatball. Please, Judge, pretty please! Hasn’t Meatball suffered enough? “That’s really all the Commonwealth has left,” Bradl told the judge, “is that gee, this might make investigators look bad, this might make special prosecutors, present company excepted, look bad.” Special prosecutors look bad? Do you think we’ll see emails of Hank Brennan begging for that $566,000 we now know he was paid, a guy who thinks “usurp” is pronounced “ooo-surp? Is it possible that the emails might show Meatball groveling before other hacks, pleading with them for more cash to continue his lunatic jihad against justice? For more clues, let’s go to the motions Bradl and Mark Bederow filed on Monday asking for the release of the Meatball Chronicles: “A large number of text and email messages from police, district attorneys and connected civilians containing information damaging to the Commonwealth and their agents have been held from public view in this case. “These documents and their public access are in the public interest and do not justify any secrecy whatsoever. In fact, such documents demonstrate at best highly questionable, and at worst, corrupt activity on the part of government officials.” Corrupt activity? No way! Next thing you know, you’ll be telling me cops routinely ride around drunk in their cruisers in Norfolk County and lose their badges and guns, and try to intimidate housewives about their anti-Meatball Facebook postings. Turtleboy’s lawyers also list an “inventory of outstanding or defective items” that Meatball has refused to turn over: “Information relative to specific requests regarding Kate Peter as government agent; no response from Commonwealth.” Kate Peter? The woman who doesn’t like Turtleboy, to put it mildly. Are they suggesting, on the public record, that she is being paid by the taxpayers to do… whatever it is she’s doing? Another demand by the defense: “A digital copy of all communications from District Attorney Morrissey to civilian witnesses/alleged victims in the case including Jennifer McCabe, Kerry Roberts and any other such persons. The Commonwealth has provided incomplete and piecemeal paper copies of such communications.” Gee, I wonder why. I wonder why Meatball would be sending sneaky stuff back and forth on his burner email with Jen McTooth and Kerry “I’m Changing My Testimony Now That I Understand Perjury” Roberts. On Monday, Triple Dip asked for three weeks more to… drag his ancient feet. Nah, said the judge. He gave him two weeks, and that was four days ago now. Tick… tick… tick… How’s this for a rough-draft headline for that magic moment when Morrissey’s burner emails are released: “Mama Mia! ‘At’s Some Spicy Meatball Missives.” You know, you can always pick the time when you’re going to start a fight or argument. But once the battle starts, you don’t to get to pick when it ends, or how. And so Meatball Morrissey learns yet another basic life lesson, once again a little late. Related Articles Karen Read prosecutor Hank Brennan took in $566K for his work [See the invoices] Karen Read, acquitted of murder, wants to toss civil case against her Michael Proctor, lead investigator in Karen Read case, continues appeal of his firing Howie Carr: Sgt. Bukhenik sent to Siberia of the State Police Massachusetts State Police Sgt. in Karen Read case booted from DA’s office "Turtleboy," Aidan T. Kearney, celebrates as he leaves court the day Karen Read was acquitted in June of all charges except OUI. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)