Canton Coverup Part 504: Hank Brennan Fails On Attempt To Sequester Turtleboy By Pulling Witness Trick He Did In Whitey Bulger Trial

 

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Hank Brennan put me on the witness list for the Commonwealth for one reason and one reason alone – to prevent me from watching or discussing the case in person and/or online. He knows that during the last trial hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to watch every show I did, and he knew how effective I was at communicating the truth to such a large audience. He had to try to put a stop to this, and adding me to the witness list was his attempt to have me sequestered for the entire trial. He thought he was putting me in check, but instead I ended up putting him in checkmate as we won our motion on Wednesday to have me exempted from the sequestration order.

Spanky had zero intention of calling me as a witness. He knows how disastrous it would’ve been to call me to the stand and allow me to explain to the jury that Jennifer McCabe isn’t some innocent witness, she’s a cold blooded murderer who the Feds know was involved in killing John O’Keefe. He knows that under cross examination the defense would be able to ask me WHY I held protests, and that this would all come out in front of the jury. He knows that I wasn’t at 34 Fairview Road on January 29, 2022 and didn’t know Karen Read until April of 2023. He was never going to call me.

Being sequestered would’ve been financially and professionally devastating for me. The Turtleboy Live Show, Turtle Club, and my website are how I make a living. On a good night I can make $1,500 in Turtle Chats, and over the court of a 3 month trial I could lose upwards of $40K in revenue if I was sequestered and couldn’t do my show. I’d also lose out on a huge opportunity to gain new followers, as last trial my following on Twitter and YouTube doubled during the trial.

This is why Spanky added me to the witness list. He knew that he would never call me, but he also wanted me silenced and he wanted to mess with my livelihood.

Adding me to the witness list was a move he’s played before. He did it when he was Whitey Bulger’s attorney and put Howie Carr on the witness list in an attempt to keep Howie out of the courtroom due to his criticism of Bulger. Judge Denise Casper exempted Howie Carr from the sequestration order, but I knew that Beverly Cannone wasn’t gonna go out of her way to do me any favors. Additionally, Howie Carr was not indicted on witness intimidation charges involving witnesses in Whitey Bulger’s trial. I am, so the circumstances are different.

More than two weeks ago we filed a motion to have me excluded from the sequestration order. We pointed out that Brennan said that he was calling me as part of his wild goose chase to prove that Karen Read hired me to spread lies about the McAlberts because she knew she was guilty and the only way to get away with her crimes was to conspire with me to intimidate witnesses.

Of course they have zero evidence of this, despite the fact that the State Police have access to my phones, my computer, my bank records, and my car payments, as well as access to Karen Read’s phone. They know that we spoke on the phone a lot, but that isn’t a crime, as much as they would like it to be. They know that we have dozens of text messages, but they didn’t enter a single text message into evidence at trial because none of them even come remotely close to conspiring to intimidate witnesses. If they had anything that was even remotely close to something they could twist into witness intimidation, they would have used it by now. They have NOTHING, and Hank is just using the pretext that he MIGHT get something on us eventually in order to keep me on the witness list.

The motion further goes on to point out that I am an award winning journalist with a huge audience who started a political and social movement that has exposed unprecedented amounts of corruption in the Norfolk County DA’s Office, and that this is the reason they want me sequestered. This is a blatant violation of my First Amendment rights.

We pointed out how the Commonwealth would never call me as a witness because it would be so bad for their case.

We also included in a redacted foonote that we were given a screenshot of a text message from Brian Tully, in which he tells someone that he is acting as a “messenger” for Gretchen Voss when she was in this same predicament last year. We can’t publish the contents of the message because it is under protective order.

Finally, the LAST thing we mentioned was that aside from all of that I also reserve the right to exercise my Fifth Amendment privilege. It is absurd to think that the Commonwealth could indict me on 16 counts of felony witness intimidation, and then testify FOR them about the very thing that I have been indicted for, without any sort of offer of immunity from them. We made sure to include in a footnote that it was ironic that by putting me on the witness list the Commonwealth was trying to cause me economic harm, because according to the statute it is witness intimidation if you cause economic harm to a witness.

As my lawyers told me, it would be legal malpractice if they didn’t strongly advise me to plead the fifth. If the Commonwealth acted in good faith it might be different. But these are people who have indicted me by taking things I said in my show and completely changing the meaning of what I was saying by quoting me out of context. These are people who have openly announced that they would like to indict Karen Read and I on conspiracy charges, after failing to do so with a grand jury last year. Why on earth would I want to give them a chance to come up with more bullshit charges by taking the stand? What exactly do I gain from doing that?

Don’t get me wrong – I said on my show when I was first added as a witness that I would LOVE to take the stand with Spanky. But at the end of the day I’d rather be able to earn a living and cover the trial. If there was a world in which Spanky let me take the stand while still doing my show, and acted as an honest broker, I’d consider my options. Instead, he offered me nothing and had no intention of calling me. If I was kept on the witness list I wouldn’t get the opportunity to face him, AND I’d lose money. I’d have to be very stupid to do that.

The reason Auntie Bev brought up the Fifth Amendment before all the other stuff in our motion is because nothing else mattered if I was gonna plead the fifth. We probably could’ve won on the First Amendment stuff, but with the Fifth Amendment she had no choice. This kept the hearing short, sweet, and simple.

What I wasn’t expecting yesterday was that Spanky would demand that I take the witness stand and say in front of the cameras that I was pleading the fifth. He wanted to do that as part of his failed attempt to humiliate me and appease online trolls who are too dumb to realize why I was pleading the fifth. My eyes lit up and I couldn’t control my smile when he said this in court.

DO IT!

During the ten minute break I told my Attorney Tim Bradl that I was more than willing to do this, but Auntie Bev wanted to do it at side bar instead. I never thought I’d be able to take part in an Auntie Bev side bar, but it was a cool experience. She wasn’t gonna make me take the stand and let Spanky turn the courtroom into his version of Shakespeare in the Park.

At the end of the day Hank lost the motion, and he failed in his attempt to humiliate me on the stand. But the botox bimbos who are dumb enough to believe that John O’Keefe was hit by a car were too stupid to see the bit picture. Like mentally stunted talking head Julie Grant, who pointed out that I was the ONLY witness to invoke my Fifth Amendment rights.

Imagine being on Court TV and not understanding what the Fifth Amendment is? What she failed to point out was that I am also the only witness facing 16 open felony indictments in the same courthouse, because she’s a dishonest person and a misinformation merchant. If the Commonwealth was doing everything in their power to charge Jennifer McCabe with a crime that she didn’t commit, then she would plead the fifth too. But she knows that the Commonwealth is protecting her at all costs, so she has nothing to lose by taking the stand.

Krusty Panties, Esquire also wrongly stated that you can’t plead the fifth if there’s no chance of criminal incrimination, and that I am admitting to criminal conduct by doing so.

As you can see, she was wrong, and I didn’t have to take the stand at all.

Disgraced DEI hire Jennifer Coffindaffer also said that “we all know why” Turtleboy plead the fifth.

Yes, we do, Coffindoofus. Yesterday I wasn’t allowed to cover the trial. Today I am. Take from that what you will.

I knew that by pleading the fifth the worst thing that could happen was a bunch of very stupid people on Twitter would say that pleading the fifth makes you guilty. But I’m OK with that, because no one takes these people seriously, and being able to report on the case and do my show was a lot more important than anything they have to say.

Anyway, the fact that Brennan is focusing so much of his energy on me and Karen Read’s made up conspiracy to intimidate witnesses, shows how weak the Commonewealth’s case against her is. They know that they can’t prove that John O’Keefe was hit by a car, so this is their backup plan. It’s not gonna end well for them.