The late Bonnie Foreshaw on 27 1/2 years in the Niantic jail: It’s a madhouse, it’s a madhouse - Speaking at the Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield, 2015

COMPLETE OBITUARY https://tinyurl.com/5ajy7cwt

Presented by the USJ Criminal Justice and Restorative Justice program

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Follows Intros by Dean Elizabeth-Francis Connelly ...

The #ColorofJustice Part 2

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https://twitter.com/CTLawTribune/status/1517143868377997316?s=20&t=ZGr90sjfkuCZDuPGXIUqwA

http://cooljustice.blogspot.com/2022/04/colorofjustice-speaker-series-usjct.html

Many Hartford cops had a virtual blank check for beatdowns, and when there was trouble – as in a modicum of court accountability – the legal department helped the culprits disappear …

The #ColorofJustice Part 2

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http://cooljustice.blogspot.com/2022/04/colorofjustice-speaker-series-usjct.html

The #ColorofJustice Part 2

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Ken Barone, of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project, The #ColorofJustice @USJCT:

“What we have found consistently, over seven studies, looking at 32 agencies, is that we have found no evidence that Black or Hispanic motorists are more likely to be driving around with equipment or administrative offenses compared their white counterparts. But police are significantly more likely to look for those violations in areas where Black and and Hispanic motorists are more likely to be traveling.”

The #ColorofJusticePart 2

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“I gave the government two years of my life, but I got back experiences that make it more than worth the two years I lost”

-  Louis the Coin, after Fort Dix / before Butner ...

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BACKGROUND, including Louis the Coin poem & theme song:

https://cooljustice.blogspot.com/2022/02/audio-via-friends-of-ours.html

· A Ray Dunaway Morning Show Classic

Louis book website:

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#YouThoughtItWasMore

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LOUIS TOOK CASINOS FOR UPWARDS OF $4M ...

Louis the Coin exhibit advances on The Mob Museum agenda  #Providence #YouThoughtItWasMore

http://cooljustice.blogspot.com/2021/11/louis-coin-exhibit-advances-on-mob.html

"Rhode Island had lots of interesting people and many of them wound up in Las Vegas. I did business with several of them."

- EXCERPT, Chapter 16, Vegas Junkets    https://louisthecoinbook.com/ 

Junkets with Al Albo Vitelli, who owned Rocket tours., were a popular thing in our circle. There were the wise guys, Skyball Scibelli from Hartford, Springfield Sam and his top aide Mario Fiore, from Connecticut. We would charter planes go to Vegas for free.

Bobby Rosati, from Providence, was connected to and financed by the Patriarca Family. He was a stockholder and the manager of the now defunct Dunes Casino He was a good  looking, soft spoken man in his late 40s who used to shudder at the news that the Providence crew was coming to Vegas and would be staying at the Dunes.

Poor guy, he would beg us not to break into the hotel rooms, play slugs in the slot machines, rob old ladies’ pocket books, pay the hookers with counterfeit money or make trouble in ways only Providence guys knew how to do….

Why Would #LasVegas Security Bosses Deny Lucrative Visits by Louis?

Louis was caught with more than 750 pounds of counterfeit slot-machine tokens in his car in Atlantic City. Louis had also shipped heavy boxes to Las Vegas … STAY TUNED ...