Shawn Pasternak

DC is a vicious, vicious place. The attacks, the badmouthing, the speaking behind your back. But, you know, and in my way, I feel very comfortable here.

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

Here is 9,000+ words by me on one of European high society’s darkest and most revealing scandals: https://t.co/Ob6ken4cVf

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

(I also do not believe the federal investigation closed in the way it has been represented by Hank Brennan or Helena Rafferty, but that's another matter)

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

"What we know: During a federal probe..."

Don't ever tell me that tHe fEdErAl iNvEsTiGaTiOn cLoSeD wItHoUt cHaRgEs again, indictments are NOT the only way to measure the effectiveness of a federal grand jury investigation

[Didi @suspiciousauce]

Committee for Public Counsel Services advisory to attorneys

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

Etiquette question: Is it poor form to buy a new mother a children's book by Hedda Nussbaum, the former editor and author of children's books *ducks* IF it is only intended as a gag gift?? cc @pcd2009

[Corri Hopkins @MarburyvVeryMad]

Here is an analysis I did of CPCS v. Attorney General (SJC) and the Farak scandal, in 2025, as the Sallyport videos were being drip drip dripped to Karen Read’s defense team.

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

@MattZeitlin

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

@daveweigel Ethan Klein? The U.S. Chief Technology Officer?

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

"His lawyer, Brian Kelly, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon." https://t.co/eTsWZNcmTY

Former Whitey Bulger prosecutor Brian Kelly: https://t.co/xgvC9o1wsu

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

Remember when federal prosecutors charged a former deputy at the Norfolk County Sheriff's Office... on extortion... involving home repairs... the day before the prosecution rested at #KarenRead's retrial... https://t.co/TSPUBFhu7x

The case docket tells an interesting story 🧵:

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

UPDATE: The U.S. Attorney's Office issued its press release on Brady's plea agreement today: https://t.co/i0fhpRcnSu

Watch this space... the feds have his iCloud data and an extraction of his work device. That's no small thing

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

Definitely not the Very Special Episode about Columbus Day

[Sopranos Central @orange_peelbeef]

What's the most skippable Sopranos episode?

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

You love to see it

[Boston 25 News @boston25]

The Committee for Public Counsel Services is demanding records of open and closed cases involving former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton sergeant Sean Goode in the wake of Karen Read’s new lawsuit. https://t.co/Wi4c9EAQ1C

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

👑👑👑

[Corri Hopkins @MarburyvVeryMad]

Some MA agencies have really taken “nothing worth having comes easy” to heart.

Gotta be relentless.

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

In Los Angeles this week, the defense suffered a setback in the second O.J. trial, when Simpson was ordered to turn over a secret videotape which lawyers say contains proof of his guilt.

What's on the tape?

The first O.J. trial.

[Jon Seidel @SeidelContent]

And the third "Broadview Six" grand jury transcript, from Oct. 23, 2025: https://t.co/fu7bMul6ff

[Jon Seidel @SeidelContent]

Here is the second "Broadview Six" grand jury transcript, from Oct. 16, 2025: https://t.co/CYnIhL2Osw

[Jon Seidel @SeidelContent]

#BREAKING Transcripts from grand jury proceedings that led to the "Broadview Six" indictment have been made public.

Here is the first, from Oct. 9: https://t.co/q5tNW4jr4W

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

@ida_lee32126 One suggestion: a certain Principal Administrative Assistant at the Boston Police Department

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

I'm literally always saying this:

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

why WFH when you can WFTHETRAIN?

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

Shorter Judge Gildea to Proctor: "Please be so for real right now. That's not how any of this works."

[Shawn Pasternak @ShawnCP92]

Why would you want to remind people of this?

[sitcom crave @sitcomcrave]

Throwback to when ABC had to use CGI and body doubles to film Jeff Garlin's character's final scenes in 'The Goldbergs'

Following his departure from the show due to a series of misconduct reports

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

@ShawnCP92 great news for Rahm that’s another .01% he can add to his column