Paul Mahoney   Paul Mahoney was the longtime top aide to Whitey’s brother, then-Senate president Billy Bulger. He was an former YAC hack – the Youth Activities Commission, a holding pen for city coatholders in the days of Mayor Kevin White. Appointed to the district court bench by (who else?) Gov. Mike Dukakis during his final days in office, when Billy was telling him what to do. At his confirmation hearings in front of the Governor’s Council, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and Harvey Silverglate, the attorney for Harold Brown in the 75 State Street scandal, showed up to testify against Mahoney. Bulger appeared, accompanied by his aide Eddie Phillips, who four years later would host Billy at his home when Whitey called from his hideout after going on the lam. Billy called Dershowitz and Silverglate “connivers” and “murderers of reputation” as he pointed at them. The Governor’s Council approved Mahoney on an 8-0 vote. He now sits in the Malden District Court. His son, Paul Mahoney, Jr. was hired onto the UMass payroll when Billy was the president of the University.

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