ADDING AN EXPLOSIVE new chapter to the leadership crisis in the Boston Police Department, embattled Commissioner Dennis White said in a videotaped affidavit that he told then-Mayor Marty Walsh about the 1999 restraining order his then-wife took out against him as part of ongoing conversations he had with Walsh in the years prior to being […]
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Judge sounds skeptical of call to block Boston police commissioner firing
EMBATTLED BOSTON POLICE COMMISSIONER Dennis White went to court on Thursday seeking to block his dismissal by Acting Mayor Kim Janey, but a Suffolk Superior Court judge indicated she was wary of weighing in on the case at this stage. Nicholas Carter, the lawyer for White, asked Judge Heidi Brieger to stop a “rush to judgment.” […]
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Why did Walsh look to cut short police commissioner probe?
WHY DID MARTY WALSH, who was pilloried for the hasty appointment of Police Commissioner Dennis White with no vetting or even an interview when it was revealed that White was the subject of a domestic abuse allegation two decades ago, then look to short-circuit the investigation he ordered as a result? That is among the […]
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Janey says White must go, decries ‘blue wall of silence’
ACTING MAYOR KIM JANEY released a devastating report Friday on Police Commissioner Dennis White, who was put on leave just two days after his appointment in early February amid reports of an earlier domestic violence allegation. The investigation not only reveals serious allegations of physical and mental abuse against White but also paints a picture […]
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Janey expects report on Boston police commissioner Dennis White this month
ACTING BOSTON MAYOR Kim Janey said she expects the investigation into domestic violence allegations against Boston’s police commissioner to be completed sometime this month — and she voiced mixed sentiments about the issue at the center of the probe. Janey, appearing on WGBH radio, told hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan that she anticipates receiving […]