Feds: Boston just making stuff up in casino allegations

The convoluted legal maneuverings around the proposed Wynn casino in Everett got more interesting this week when the US Attorney's office denied the city's claims that two former state troopers, working on the side as private eyes for Wynn, got a look at what were supposed to be private documents related to Wynn's purchase of the land from three men now under federal indictment for the way they allegedly tried to hide that one of them was a convicted felon.

The filing by the US Attorney's office came yesterday in the criminal case against the three men, not in the civil lawsuit by the city against Wynn - in response to a demand by the three to cough up information related to the private eyes' work - which they say Wynn used to force them to lower their asking price by $40 million.

Balderdash, the US Attorney's office replied:

Without a shred of evidence, and despite having been warned that the "alleged incident" never happened, the defendants seized on a rumor spewed and spun by the City of Boston in a vicious civil lawsuit against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (the MGC) and filed a Brady motion questioning the integrity of this criminal prosecution. Had the defendants simply asked Joseph F. Flaherty and Stephen G. Matthews about the rumors, they would have learned that Flaherty and Matthews did not review any files at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (the AGO) in 2013. In fact, they reviewed documents at the AGO in March 2014 in a matter completely unrelated to this case, and they never had access to investigative files or any other materials at the AGO related to this case.

Because there was no unauthorized access to files concerning the state or federal investigation of the defendants, the Court should deny the Motion. The government further notes that the only real effect of the defendants’ frivolous Motion was to publically disclose grand jury transcripts produced pursuant to the Protective Order, which materials made their way to the City of Boston and the media within hours of the filing of the Motion.