Update: On February 14, 2024, the General Counsel for Foley Hoag Boston, Michael Rosen, wrote to me directly and told me that Foley Hoag does not represent the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston or John Fish. However, I did not believe him.
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On October 13, the day of this letter, I sent four letters to four different people about the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston.
One letter went to Comcast General Counsel Thomas Reid, in which I accused Comcast of colluding with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston to plant a listening device in a set top that Comcast they installed in my home.
A second letter went to Matt Monkiewicz, who is president and CEO of Kayem Foods in Chelsea, in which I accused Mr. Monkiewicz of persuading Rudi Schwartz of Elemental Productions in Allson to impose himself on me as an indenpendent film producer wanting to help my cause provided I showed him “everthing” I had.
And the third letter went to Stephen Quigley, who is president of Independent Newspaper Group in Revere, in which I demanded that Mr. Quigley reject any influence from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston and publish a two-line ad in their newspaper as they had done previously.
Those three letters were all pulled right out of the USPS system and stolen. Postal investigators opened a case on November 20, 2023 and got back to me on November 24 saying all three cases had been resolved. But when I check the USPS tracking numbers, all come back as undelivered, lost somehow in the system and now irretrievable. And this is the second time it has happened. Who thinks it isn’t wrong that I can’t use the postal service like everyone else in America?
The fourth letter is the only one that got through whatever shocking machinations played out in the postal system that day. This is that letter.
October 13, 2023
Via Certified Mail
Return Receipt Requested
#9407111898765492545003
James W. Bucking, Managing Partner
Foley Hoag LLP
Seaport West
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210
Dear Mr. Bucking:
On July 27, 2018, I wrote to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston about an ongoing dispute that has existed between us since September of 1996. Though they did not acknowledge the letter, they followed up with people at your law firm, for which I have records, visiting a website I publish at JamesChester.org and scrutinizing all of the documents pertaining to my dispute with them. This scrutiny by more than one person at your law firm, Foley Hoag, went on intensively for a period of several days, and then lingered weeks more, before spreading out to a number of consultants elsewhere.
Then in January of 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney opened an investigation into the allegations I have documented and published on my website regarding my participation in the Stay‑At‑Home Day camp during the last week of June and the first week of July in 1963, when I was 11. At that time, after the investigation was opened, my website underwent a much more intense round of scrutiny, and all of it was done by about a half‑dozen people sharing the same ISP, T-Mobile, each of which I traced to the Seaport district here in Boston, where Foley Hoag offices are located. As of today’s date, that resumed, second round of scrutiny has not ended, which means it has been ongoing now for more than three years, unabated.
The most intriguing aspect of this second round is that, unlike the first round that Foley Hoag openly conducted in 2018, this time, the people who are investigating refuse to disclose their identity and have gone to unusual lengths to prevent that disclosure, which is a complete one‑eighty from the way you investigated back in 2018. I believe this has something to do with evidence that the second round of scrutiny is aimed at criminal obstruction, which is what I alleged to the DOJ (on November 17, 2022), rather than determining truth, though much of the truth has certainly been learned through their scrutiny.
I believe that the people who wish to remain hidden are the perpetrators of that obstruction, so I allege. And I believe that is a coverup worth uncovering.
I am writing you today because I have long suspected that Foley Hoag is now knee‑deep in this dispute and is, in fact, responsible for the second round of scrutiny. In addition, given that you are a labor lawyer, like every other lawyer that the Club’s board has ever put up against me, but also the managing partner of the firm, exactly like Jeff Jones was way back in September of 1996 at Palmer and Dodge, I would guess that you are probably the lead attorney on the case.
It is unethical for you to hide your identity while carefully scrutinizing, monitoring, and directing the course of this dispute between me and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, if that is what you have been doing.
On November 23, 2020, I wrote to the Department of Justice and specifically accused Rachael Rollins of deliberately leaking “non‑public” information about this case to senior members of the Club’s board of directors, particularly Jack Connors, John Fish, and Ann Bain, in February of 2020. This was precisely what the DOJ accused Rachael Rollins of doing in order to exert her personal influence as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts in a second matter, again, here in Boston. And for that, the DOJ gladly accepted Rachael Rollins’ resignation on May 15, 2023.
If there has been obstruction of justice here in Boston arising out of a dispute between James Chester and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston and you were involved, you do not get to hide your involvement, Mr. Bucking. And I get to expose it.
I am publishing this letter today and disclosing these allegations against Foley Hoag on my website, JamesChester.org.
If you choose to respond, please note my address at the top of this letter, not the return address on the envelope, which I must falsify in order to prevent my mail from being intercepted and stolen, routinely.
Sincerely,
James Chester
No one at Foley Hoag responded to this letter, until February 9, 2024, after I went public on the X platform with a Letter to the Board of Directors. At that time, I wrote to Mr. Bucking again and warned him to contact me immediately if he did not represent the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, and he did and stated that he did not represent them. But I did not believe him.