First surprise of the day: Lawrence Mayor Brian Depena did not demand a Spanish translator for his initial court appearance on federal corruption charges Friday.
Second surprise: the Dominican-born alleged Democrat fraudster had a private attorney.
Not so surprising: Depena’s private lawyer, one Carlos Apostle, immediately played the race card after he got into a fender-bender while fleeing the courthouse with his sticky-fingered client.
The foreign-born attorney got out of his red low rider to snap a photo of the dented bumper as the cameras rolled. Then he yelled at the cameramen:
“I’m going to have bodyguards because look how outrageous this is! You would never do this to someone white.”
In open court, this race-obsessed mouthpiece has bragged that he has Boston Globe editors “on his speed dial.”
I’ll bet he does! Carlos Apostle and Brian Depena are both professional victims. The Globe will be naming them Bostonians of the Year in three… two… one.
Apostle is from Peru, and he looks pretty damn white to me. But hey, claiming you’re a “person of color” is the most lucrative grift going — grabbing a big payday because you’re a victim even though you look like just another honky on the corner.
Try not to let this multi-count indictment against Depena destroy your faith in the integrity of 1) the City of Lawrence, 2) welfare programs for crooked Third World con artists and 3) the Massachusetts Democrat party.
Depena came here from the Dominican Republic in the 1980s, but never bothered to learn anything more than pidgin English. He needed an interpreter for a POST Commission hearing. He’s become a living legend on social media for his inaugural statement:
“Never I promise to my con-stoo-chu-sents that I speak perfect English.”
Nor apparently did he promise that he would obey the white man’s law. And now he’s charged with grabbing $1.5 million in COVID relief money — welfare, in other words. During the Panic, Democrats set up all kinds of welfare rip off programs — PPP, PUA, EIDL etc.
The mayor picked the COVID business-loan frauderama — Economic Injury Disaster Loans.
He had a tire company and Joe Biden lavished $1.5 million on him in 2021. Professional courtesy. At the time Depena pocketed the million-five in EIDL welfare, his tire company had a balance of $2,128. It was a very solvent enterprise, in other words.
The feds said the mayor then transferred his latest welfare-cash grab to his personal account.
“The balance in his personal account prior to that transfer was approximately $1,401.56.”
Once he had muchos pesos, he paid off $85,000 he owed in unpaid taxes to the IRS. Imagine that — a Democrat from the DR not paying his… fair share.
Flush with his welfare millions, Depena won the 2021 mayoral election. He hired as his chief of staff one Jhovanny Martes-Rosario, who has since pleaded guilty to federal kiddie porn charges and received a 43-month sentence.
One of his city councilors, Fedelina Santiago, likewise had to resign after pleading guilty to doing something Democrats tell us can never happen — stealing mail-in ballots out of mailboxes.
And now the mayor of color has himself been lugged.
But let’s talk about his lawyer, Carlos Apostle. Last year Apostle was up in Essex defending a different Third World thug who was charged with first-degree murder.
The judge in that case was a Baker appointee named Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman. She was more recently involved in the Kelsey Fitzsimmons fiasco.
Anyway, this is what happened when Carlos Apostle appeared in her courtroom last December, representing a cholo named Darwin Mejia.
Apostle’s behavior in front of the jury was so outrageous that the judge had to okay the state’s motion for a mistrial.
She laid out Apostle’s misbehavior in her 11-page ruling, starting with the fact that he had been “accusing the court of being ‘racist’ in open court, with outstanding bias, and ascribing the court’s rulings to ethnic bias against him.”
The DEI lawyer interrupted and talked over both the judge and prosecutor. He refused orders to stop talking and sit down. He has special privileges, you know.
Then there were his “repeated outbursts, including flailing his arms and once slamming his computer and storming out of the courtroom, while proceedings were ongoing, shouting ‘You figure it out!”
The judge continued:
“His level of agitation and refusal to abide by the court’s orders to sit down and stop talking required the presence of, at one point, eleven court officers around him.”
The judge had to flee the bench at one point. I guess it’s a Third World thing.
Before her ruling, the judge gave Apostle a chance to defend himself:
“(He) gave a lengthy speech about his personal and family background that was both irrelevant and grossly inappropriate.
“He noted that he grew up in Malden as an immigrant from Peru and his plan to return to Peru to become its president. He noted that, while his family is Latino, when he moved to Andover, they had ‘white movers.’
“He threatened to call The Boston Globe and El Mundo, whose editors are ‘on his speed dial.’ He mentioned his mother’s inclination to fight if a person were to denigrate her skill at tennis.”
Well, that’s very normal.
So there you have it. If Apostle doesn’t like this column he can just call the Globe editors on speed dial and demand a slobbering Monica Cannon-Grant-style puff piece from the local fluffers.
If I’m Mayor Depena, I’m thinking maybe I’d be better off doing what every other Dominican cholo does — declare indigency and take my chances with a public defender. Save my money for the getaway flight to Santo Domingo.
Mayor, you’re going to be found guilty one way or the other. And at sentencing, you might be better off with, say, Carlos Danger than Carlos Apostle.
As for Apostle, maybe he should return to Peru to begin his presidential campaign. One endorsement he’s got for sure — the Boston Globe.