The Conte-spiracy Theory (cont.)
What's not being reported in either of these news reports from today's papers?
From the Boston Herald:
...and the Boston Globe:
Does it not matter to anyone that the 17-year-old girl who killed her sister and injured her friend was unlawfully in possession of vodka? Vodka that didn't just fall out of the sky?
With all the focus being on the host of the party, no one's looking into where a 17-year-old girl got her hands on a bottle of vodka. Did she purchase it with a fake ID? If so, who sold it to her? And, from whom did she obtain the bogus license?
News reports say she had the license of a woman of drinking age in her possession. Will that aspect of the case now not be investigated? Whom did that license belong to?
Did she get it her booze from a person of legal drinking age? If so, who?
Did she steal it from her parents?
The fact that this investigation was closed following the apparent interference of AG Reilly just leaves too many unanswered questions. If there's nothing to hide, and no one to protect, why all the secrecy? Should the details of this case not be brought out into the open for all to see? Could this not serve as a valuable teaching tool in the efforts to prevent future tragedy?
I want to know what happened to "If it saves just one life it will all be worth it!"
We have reams of gun laws and regulations on the books here in Massachusetts, all enacted with the hopes that just "one life" will be saved. If this girl had brought a gun to the party and showed it off - without harming anyone - would Reilly still be looking to hush up the story and have the investigation quashed as he seems to be doing now? Would it not matter where the gun came from?
Well, now two girls are dead and no one seems interested in determining how they got hold of the liquor that contributed to their death.
Is this the new precedent for the Commonwealth? That it's now insignificant where teenaged drunk drivers get their booze from? Quite the legacy for the would-be governor to leave behind.
From the Boston Herald:
Worcester District Attorney John Conte says he has "no idea" why Attorney General Tom Reilly called him about an alcohol-related Northboro wreck that killed two sisters, and denied that the AG's call influenced his decision not to press charges against the 20-year-old party host.
Conte said his office declined to charge Nathaniel Berberian under the state's "social host responsibility" law after determining there was "insufficient evidence."
"The young man involved didn't furnish any liquor. The girls brought it there themselves," Conte said.
...and the Boston Globe:
Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte, delivering an unusually harsh rebuke to a fellow law enforcement officer, said yesterday that the Northborough police chief has had toxicology results for weeks in a high-profile car crash that killed two teenage girls last October.
Rejecting suggestions that he helped stifle a criminal investigation, Conte insisted that Northborough police did not need his approval to pursue charges against a host of the party where the girls were drinking before the crash.
However, Conte said the charge would be a "stretch" because investigators learned that the teenagers brought their own alcohol there. "You could stretch it," Conte said, "but that's like picking out a scapegoat for this horrendous tragedy and that's not what happened here. The girls brought their own liquor."
Does it not matter to anyone that the 17-year-old girl who killed her sister and injured her friend was unlawfully in possession of vodka? Vodka that didn't just fall out of the sky?
With all the focus being on the host of the party, no one's looking into where a 17-year-old girl got her hands on a bottle of vodka. Did she purchase it with a fake ID? If so, who sold it to her? And, from whom did she obtain the bogus license?
News reports say she had the license of a woman of drinking age in her possession. Will that aspect of the case now not be investigated? Whom did that license belong to?
Did she get it her booze from a person of legal drinking age? If so, who?
Did she steal it from her parents?
The fact that this investigation was closed following the apparent interference of AG Reilly just leaves too many unanswered questions. If there's nothing to hide, and no one to protect, why all the secrecy? Should the details of this case not be brought out into the open for all to see? Could this not serve as a valuable teaching tool in the efforts to prevent future tragedy?
I want to know what happened to "If it saves just one life it will all be worth it!"
We have reams of gun laws and regulations on the books here in Massachusetts, all enacted with the hopes that just "one life" will be saved. If this girl had brought a gun to the party and showed it off - without harming anyone - would Reilly still be looking to hush up the story and have the investigation quashed as he seems to be doing now? Would it not matter where the gun came from?
Well, now two girls are dead and no one seems interested in determining how they got hold of the liquor that contributed to their death.
Is this the new precedent for the Commonwealth? That it's now insignificant where teenaged drunk drivers get their booze from? Quite the legacy for the would-be governor to leave behind.
