Once there was a hint that Lightbody had previously owned the land and that there 'might' have been a coverup, Wynn was back at the negotiating table to lower its bid on the 35 acre parcel it bought from FBT from $75 Million to $25 Million. The jury would have also had to believe that there was some victim as a result of this crime and it most certainly was not Wynn Resorts. Here, they were talking on prison phones with reminders every 5 minutes that the calls were being recorded!

I mean, had either of these gentlemen even gone to classes in Organized Crime 101? Back in the old days of the mafia, people got killed for wearing wiretaps to record conversations of illegal activities. However, these were NOT high level mafia calls and the jury must have seen through it. In those calls, Lightbody bragged about his 'F - ing good fortune' of getting out of the Wynn deal with some big dollars, while Bufalino, being the good Catholic, offered to pray that his good fortune (blessing) continued.

The case for the government had little to do with the land purchase itself, but more on the mafia connections and jailhouse phone calls between Lightbody and Darin Bufalino, known to have ties to organized crime and serving time in a Massachusetts state jail. After day one, it seemed to be down hill for the government's case and the posh bench of the front row was replaced by hand written 'reserved' notes on a few chairs at the back of the courtroom.

I had not heard of reserved seating in a public courtroom but it must be something that occurs when the trial is high profile, or perceived high profile. Attorney Carmen Ortiz had the first row benches of the gallery reserved for her and staff to watch opening statements in the trial. This was an important case for the government. The fact is, these guys were innocent, but that will never appear in any court document. Wynn Resorts for a casino site in Boston.

That happened on Friday when a jury acquitted all three from charges that they conspired to hide Lightbody's, a former convicted felon, ownership in land that was sold to When the trial of three men, Dustin DeNunzio, Anthony Gattineri and Charles Lightbody started in mid-April, the best that they could hope for was that they would be found 'not guilty' by a jury.

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