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International Best Selling author Joe Bruno has 22 of the top 40 ranked ebooks on Amazon in the category “Legal – Witnesses.”

 

“The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth?” is ranked highest at #2. Robert Kennedy’ Jr.’s book “Framed,” which says exactly the opposite what of Bruno’s book maintains, is ranked #4.

RFK Jr. says his cousin Michael Skakel was framed, Bruno’s says Skakel should have been arrested and convicted much sooner than the 27 years it took for a conviction.

Another 5-Star review for International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth?

5.0 out of 5 stars

As Jack Webb would say on Dragnet: “Just the facts.”

August 27, 2016

By Tyler “Duke” Hess

This review is from: The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth? (Kindle Edition)

I read RFK’s book on the subject and got the same feeling as when my mother used to try to explain why I was innocent when I wasn’t. On reading Bruno’s book I felt, with my lifelong experience with crime, that it was more realistic; no BS or wild speculation; no excuses. Of course, it was the same high standard of writing as all Joe Bruno’s books that draws you into the world at hand. Great job!

https://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Murder-Martha-Moxley-Political-ebook/dp/B01GONEAUW/ref=pd_sim_351_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=R9JJT49X6SNQPCV73DJF#nav-subnav

RFK Jr.’s Skakel book doesn’t make his case

By LEONARD LEVITT
RFK Jr.’s Skakel book doesn’t make his case
By Len Levitt levitt@nypdconfidential.com August 22, 2016

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In a new book, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. maintains that cousin Michael Skakel was “framed” in the killing of neighbor Martha Moxley by an incompetent lawyer, a “corrupt” detective and prosecutor, and the media.
Moxley, 15, was beaten to death in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1975. The weapon was a golf club from a set found the next day in the Skakel home. The case drew intense national attention and has become a legal odyssey.
But Skakel wasn’t framed, as the title of Kennedy’s book alleges. Instead, perpetuating the basest of racial stereotypes, in “Framed” Kennedy points the finger at two men — one black, the other of mixed race.
“Kennedy also shows how he tracked down the likely killers, whose presence was detected neither by the police nor the press,” reads the book jacket. He offers no proof for his claims. The closest he comes is to write that the men admitted to him they were in Greenwich the night Moxley was killed.
On BizTalk radio, he told host Jim Campbell, “Both of the men . . . acknowledged on tape that they were there that night.”
Those statements are wrong. According to court documents, Kennedy secretly recorded the men in separate phone conversations in 2003, the year after Skakel’s conviction. But no such admissions appeared on either recording, according to transcripts made available to me.
At a 2007 hearing seeking a new trial for Skakel, based on Kennedy’s claims, Skakel’s lawyers didn’t offer any admissions as new evidence. In 2007, a judge denied Skakel’s motion for a new trial. In 2013, Skakel again sought a new trial, claiming his lawyer had been incompetent. A judge ruled Skakel had not received an adequate defense and granted a new trial. Prosecutors appealed the decision to Connecticut’s highest court, which is expected to rule in the next few months. Meanwhile, Skakel was released from prison, where he served 11 years of a 20-years-to-life sentence.
In response to questions about his claims, Kennedy emailed that he was on a hiking trip in Utah, but would respond by Aug. 8. He then emailed he would respond by Aug. 10.
He has not.
Leonard Levitt is the author of “Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder.”

http://www.amny.com/opinion/columnists/leonard-levitt/rfk-jr-s-skakel-book-doesn-t-make-his-case-1.12210182

Joe Bruno Fights Back!

Below is my response to someone called “Amazon Customer” (they never use their real name when they perform hatchet jobs), after he (or she) posted a 1-star review for my new book, “The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth?”

Anyone who knows me personally knows I don’t take bullshit from anyone, even a Kennedy, or a Kennedy “groupie” like the person below appears to be.

*****

The review:

1.0 out of 5 stars
Opinionated rehash of old material
By Amazon Customer
on August 23, 2016
Format: Kindle Edition

This was written by a biased author from his computer terminal. He formulated the Dominic Dunne POV and carefully curated the facts (gossip) surrounding the case. Why not. It worked for Dunne and his boy buddy Mark the disgraced cop Furhman. Too bad, I admired a previous book by Bruno, not knowing much about the case. I happen to be familiar enough with the Moxley case to know Joe created a fiction that he may actually believe.

*****

My reply on Amazon to his (or her) review.

Joe Bruno Sr.

Why do you believe to believe RFK Jr, and not me, Mark Fuhrman, Dominick Dunne and Len Levitt, all of whom have come to the same conclusion; that Michael Skakel is guilty of the murder of Martha Moxley? We have no horses in this race. RFK Jr. is trying to protect a blood cousin.

You call what we have written “fiction,” and RFk Jr.’s book “Framed” you have rated 5 stars and said, “This book proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Utterly amazing the gossip monger Dominique Dunne and his very close friend, disgraced cop Mark Furhman, had such impact upon an innocent man. Kennedy solves the case in this compelling account. One can only hope some justice will be served in the future, that the guilty will be prosecuted and Skakel exonerated.”

You’re doing the same think RFK Jr. does in his book: he paints Michael Skakel as a saint, and everyone else connected with the case is either corrupt, incompetent, or a liar.

This is from a man, RFK Jr., who was found unconscious in an airplane bathroom and subsequently arrested for possession of heroin. As a result, he was fired from his job at the NY City District Attorney’s office, and disbarred for two years. And yet you give him kudos for being credible and say I created a “fiction,” when in fact what I have written in my book is the absolute, unbiased truth, taken from court reports, newspaper accounts, and all available documents pertaining to the case, including the Sutton Report, which was commissioned by Rushton Skakel to find his sons innocent of the murder of Martha Moxley, but produced the exact opposite result.

In addition, you call Mark Fuhrman a “disgraced cop,” but you don’t call RFK Jr. a “disgraced lawyer,” when he shamed his family and the NY City District Attorney’s office with his past criminal behavior.

And why would you believe a man, RFK Jr., who is an admitted serial adulterer, who some people claim was responsible for the suicide death of his second wife, Mary, which happened while he was romancing his third wife?

If a man would lie to his wife, the person who is supposed to be closer and dearer to him that anyone else on earth, how can we trust anything he says?

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International Best Selling Author Joe Bruno Says “Framed” by Robert Kennedy, Jr, “It’s the most mean-spirited book I have ever read. The entire text of the book has only a passing acquaintance with the truth.”

 

Framed by Robert Kennedy Jr.

By Leonard Levitt – NYPD Confidential

August 22, 2016

In his recently published book, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. maintains that his cousin, Michael Skakel, was “framed” for the murder of his 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley, by an incompetent lawyer, a “corrupt” detective and prosecutor, and the media — including this reporter.

Martha was beaten to death in the Belle Haven section of Greenwich, CT on Oct. 30, 1975, with a golf club that came from a set found the next day in the Skakel home. The case has become a 41-year legal odyssey, with no resolution in sight.

But Michael Skakel wasn’t framed, as the title of Kennedy’s book alleges. Instead, perpetuating the basest of racial stereotypes, Kennedy has framed two men, one black, the other of mixed race.

“Kennedy also shows how he tracked down the likely killers, whose presence was detected neither by the police nor the press,” reads his book jacket. Kennedy himself writes: “Using the evidence I have cited in this book, prosecutors have sufficient cause to indict Burton Tinsley and Adolph Hasbrouck for Martha Moxley’s murder.”

Kennedy offers no proof for his claims. The closest he comes is to write that Hasbrouck and Tinsley admitted to him they had been in Belle Haven on the night Martha was murdered.

Click here to read what the police brass say about NYPD ConfidentialOn BizTalk radio he told host Jim Campbell: “Both of the men, Adolph and Burr, acknowledged on tape that they were there that night.”

On the Phoenix-based radio show “House of Mystery” to publicize his book, he told host Al Warren: “I was able to track those two men down and have conversations with them in which they admitted that they had been in Greenwich that night, and they admitted that they had been in the home of Geoffrey Byrne, the boy who helped them clean off after the murder.”

Those statements are lies.

According to court documents, Kennedy secretly recorded Hasbrouck and Tinsley in separate telephone conversations in 2003, the year after Michael’s conviction. But no such admissions appeared on either recording, transcripts of which were made available to this reporter.

At a 2007 hearing seeking a new trial for Michael, based on Kennedy’s claims, Michael’s lawyers never offered any admissions as new evidence, a further indication there were none.

As for Geoffrey Byrne, who Kennedy claims helped Hasbrouck and Tinsley “clean off after the murder,” this is pure fantasy. That never happened. Conveniently for Kennedy, Byrne died a few years after the murder.

Kennedy’s source for his allegations is Gitano [Tony] Bryant, who Kennedy describes in his book as a first cousin to the basketball star Kobe Bryant. Last year, Bryant pleaded guilty in Virginia to under-reporting millions of dollars in his tobacco importing company, resulting in a $6 million tax liability. In 1993 he was convicted of participating in an armed robbery/home invasion in California in which he claimed to have been kidnapped. He was later fired by a Texas law firm after the firm discovered Bryant hadn’t passed the bar as he had claimed.

In 2007, Connecticut Judge Edward Karazin denied Michael’s motion for a new trial, concluding that Bryant’s claims “lacked credibility” and are “absent any genuine corroboration.”

In 2013, as Michael again sought a new trial, claiming his lawyer, Mickey Sherman, had been incompetent, Judge Thomas Bishop found that Bryant’s “trail of deceit would likely erode any confidence in Bryant’s credibility.”

However, Bishop ruled Sherman had been incompetent and granted Michael a new trial. Prosecutors have appealed his decision to Connecticut’s highest court, which is expected. Meanwhile, Michael has been released from prison, where he served 11 years.

Bryant came to Kennedy’s notice after Kennedy wrote an article in 2003 in the Atlantic Monthly, maintaining that Kenneth Littleton, a tutor who had moved into the Skakel house the night of the murder but who had never met Martha, was a more likely suspect than Michael.

Bryant told Kennedy that he, Hasbrouck and Tinsley, who were schoolmates in the Bronx, had been in Belle Haven the night of the murder and that up to 15 people had seen them. At the 2007 hearing, Kennedy testified he was unable to find anyone to corroborate this.

Bryant also told Kennedy that Hasbrouck, who is black and who Bryant described as six-foot-three and 200 pounds at the time of the murder, had met Martha at a dance in Greenwich a few months before, although no one but Bryant ever saw them together.

Quoting Bryant, the credulous Kennedy writes that Hasbrouck “was obsessed with her beautiful blonde hair,” and wanted to go “caveman” on her.

“Adolph and Burr, inebriated and ‘out of control’ began making sexually charged comments to some of the girls,” Kennedy writes about their supposedly being in Belle Haven the night of the murder. “‘Where are the bitches?’ they were now demanding. ‘We’ve just got to get into something.’”

According to Bryant, a day or two later, the two confessed to him they had killed Martha. Kennedy writes, “Adolph boasted, ‘Well, I got mine. …We got her caveman style.’”

Bryant, however, refused to repeat his story to Connecticut authorities or to testify under oath at the 2007 hearing. Kennedy justifies his refusal, writing, “Michael’s conviction reinforced Tony’s mistrust of the system and validated his reason for not coming forward.”

In an email to this reporter, Kennedy said that Bryant “has indicated his willingness to testify so long as he is first granted immunity,” although it is not clear what Bryant wants immunity for.

Kennedy also wrote that “it became clear to me they [Hasbrouck and Tinsley] had been there that night.” As evidence he mentioned the fact that Byrnes’ relatives “were dead certain that no black person could have visited their house. …I subsequently talked with both Tindel [sic] and Burr, who admitted having been to their house. Both of them [had been there] on at least six occasions and then described the interior of the house and other intricate details …”

“Wouldn’t it have been a little more helpful to determine if they were there … in Belle Haven on the night of Oct. 30, 1975, if you had ever spoken to somebody who had actually said they’d seen them there?” retorted prosecutor Jonathan Benedict.

Click here to read the New York Times profile of Leonard LevittAnother person who claimed Hasbrouck had been in Belle Haven the night of the murder was Skakel’s private investigator Vito Colucci. At the 2007 hearing, Colucci testified Hasbrouck admitted this in an interview he had conducted with his assistant, Kris Steele, at Hasbrouck’s home in Bridgeport in 2003.

Colucci testified he had brought Steele to take notes and “mainly to have a witness.” He testified: “Anytime I do something of any magnitude I try to get it on video or make sure I have somebody with me.”

Colucci acknowledged he did not record his interview with Hasbrouck and that Steele’s report, which was part of the court record, made no mention of any admission.

After he telephoned Hope Seeley, one of Skakel’s lawyers, Colucci testified, Steele wrote a second report that included Hasbrouck’s alleged admission. “Kris left out a few things and I just told him what to do.” Seeley, who is now a judge, declined comment through a Connecticut Judicial Branch spokesperson. Colucci did not respond to an email and telephone call.

According to Hasbrouck’s lawyer, Lawrence Schoenbach, “Hasbrouck’s mother had forbidden him to stay out during a school night, much less go to Greenwich. His mom worked in the 40th precinct in the Bronx. She cracked the whip.” Bryant, who had attended the same Greenwich private school as Michael before moving to the Bronx for reasons that are unclear, did bring Hasbrouck and Tinsley to Greenwich a few times, said Schoenbach, “but always on weekends.”

Hasbrouck, says Schoenbach, graduated from college, served three years in the army and received an honorable discharge. “He has been married for 25 years. He has daughter in college. He has been a production assistant at ABC for 15 years. He was a decent kid who became a respectable adult. Imagine 30 years later somebody knocks on your door and says, ‘Did you kill Martha Moxley?’”

Of Kennedy’s book, he says: “His story was rejected by the courts ten years ago and is now repackaged. Simply because he puts it in a book and gives it a better veneer makes it no more credible.”

In an interview on NBC’s “Dateline,” Kennedy dared Hasbrouck to sue him for libel. Schoenbach said he would wait until Connecticut’s highest court rules before making a decision.

Click here to read the Washington Post article on NYPD ConfidentialIt would be disingenuous not to mention that Kennedy’s book reflects his animosity towards me as a reporter. In part, I suspect this is because of two articles I wrote. The first, published in the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time in 1991, led the state of Connecticut to reopen its investigation.

The second was a series of articles, published in Newsday in 1995, that described how both Michael and his brother Tommy had lied to the police about their whereabouts the night of the murder. That led investigators to refocus on the Skakels and away from Littleton, then their main suspect.

I’ve often wondered why Kennedy has committed himself to Michael’s innocence. I suspect he identifies with Michael’s painful and tragic childhood and early adulthood. Like Kennedy, Michael lost a parent as a child. Like Michael, Kennedy became alcoholic. He was also a heroin addict, overdosing in the lavatory of a commercial airline. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau fired him and he was disbarred as a lawyer for two years.

But where is it written that a person of privilege and entitlement with a famous name can write lies about innocent people without consequence?

http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/2016/160822.html

Leonard Levitt op-ed: Journalist deconstructs Kennedy’s claim Skakel was ‘Framed’

By Leonard Levitt

In his recently published book, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. maintains that his cousin, Michael Skakel, was “framed” for the murder of his 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley, by an incompetent lawyer, a “corrupt” detective and prosecutor, and the media — including this reporter.
Martha was beaten to death in the Belle Haven section of Greenwich on Oct. 30, 1975, with a golf club that came from a set found the next day in the Skakel home. The case has become a 41-year legal odyssey, with no resolution in sight.

But Michael Skakel wasn’t framed, as the title of Kennedy’s book alleges. Instead, perpetuating the basest of racial stereotypes, Kennedy has framed two men, one black, the other of mixed race.

“Kennedy also shows how he tracked down the likely killers, whose presence was detected neither by the police nor the press,” reads his book jacket. Kennedy himself writes: “Using the evidence I have cited in this book, prosecutors have sufficient cause to indict Burton Tinsley and Adolph Hasbrouck for Martha Moxley’s murder.”

Kennedy offers no proof for his claims. The closest he comes is to write that Hasbrouck and Tinsley admitted to him they had been in Belle Haven on the night Martha was murdered.

On BizTalk radio he told host Jim Campbell: “Both of the men, Adolph and Burr, acknowledged on tape that they were there that night.”
On the Phoenix-based radio show “House of Mystery” to publicize his book, he told host Al Warren: “I was able to track those two men down and have conversations with them in which they admitted that they had been in Greenwich that night, and they admitted that they had been in the home of Geoffrey Byrne, the boy who helped them clean off after the murder.”

Those statements are lies.

According to court documents, Kennedy secretly recorded Hasbrouck and Tinsley in separate telephone conversations in 2003, the year after Michael’s conviction. But no such admissions appeared on either recording, transcripts of which were made available to me.

At a 2007 hearing seeking a new trial, based on Kennedy’s claims, Michael’s lawyers never offered any admissions as new evidence, a further indication there were none.

Byrne, who Kennedy claims helped Hasbrouck and Tinsley “clean off after the murder,” died a few years after the murder.
Kennedy’s source for his allegations is Gitano (Tony) Bryant, who Kennedy describes in his book as a first cousin to basketball star Kobe Bryant. Last year, Gitano Bryant pleaded guilty in Virginia to under-reporting millions of dollars in his tobacco importing company, resulting in a $6 million tax liability. In 1993 he was convicted of participating in an armed robbery/home invasion in California in which he claimed to have been kidnapped. He was later fired by a Texas law firm after his employers discovered Bryant never passed the bar, as he had claimed.

In 2007, Connecticut Judge Edward Karazin denied Michael’s motion for a new trial, concluding that Bryant’s claims “lacked credibility” and are “absent any genuine corroboration.”

In 2013, as Michael again sought a new trial, claiming his lawyer, Mickey Sherman, had been incompetent, Judge Thomas Bishop found Bryant’s “trail of deceit would likely erode any confidence in Bryant’s credibility.”

However, Bishop ruled Sherman failed his client and granted Michael a new trial. Prosecutors have appealed his decision to Connecticut’s highest court, which is expected to rule in the next few months. Meanwhile, Michael has been released from prison, where he served 11 years.
Bryant came to Kennedy’s notice after Kennedy wrote an article in 2003 in Atlantic Monthly, maintaining Kenneth Littleton, a tutor who moved into the Skakel house the night of the murder, was a more likely suspect than Michael.

Bryant told Kennedy that he, Hasbrouck and Tinsley, who were schoolmates in the Bronx, New York, had been in Belle Haven the night of the murder and that up to 15 people had seen them. At the 2007 hearing, Kennedy testified he was unable to find anyone to corroborate this.
Bryant also told Kennedy that Hasbrouck, who is black and who Bryant described as 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds at the time of the murder, met Martha at a dance in Greenwich a few months before, although no one but Bryant ever reported seeing them together.

Quoting Bryant, Kennedy writes that Hasbrouck “was obsessed with her beautiful blond hair,” and wanted to go “caveman” on her.
“Adolph and Burr, inebriated and ‘out of control’ began making sexually charged comments to some of the girls,” Kennedy writes about their supposedly being in Belle Haven the night of the murder.

“‘Where are the bitches?’ they were now demanding. ‘We’ve just got to get into something.’”

According to Bryant, a day or two later, the two confessed to him they killed Martha. Kennedy writes, “Adolph boasted, ‘Well, I got mine. …We got her caveman style.’”

Bryant, however, refused to repeat his story to Connecticut authorities or to testify under oath at the 2007 hearing. Kennedy justifies his refusal, writing, “Michael’s conviction reinforced Tony’s mistrust of the system and validated his reason for not coming forward.”

Kennedy also wrote that “it became clear to me they (Hasbrouck and Tinsley) had been there that night.” As evidence he mentioned that Byrnes’ relatives “were dead certain that no black person could have visited their house. … I subsequently talked with both Tindel (sic) and Burr, who admitted having been to their house. Both of them (had been there) on at least six occasions and then described the interior of the house and other intricate details.”
“Wouldn’t it have been a little more helpful to determine if they were … in Belle Haven on the night of Oct. 30, 1975, if you had ever spoken to somebody who had actually said they’d seen them there?” retorted prosecutor Jonathan Benedict.

Another person who claimed Hasbrouck had been in Belle Haven the night of the murder was Skakel’s private investigator, Vito Colucci. At the 2007 hearing, Colucci testified Hasbrouck admitted this in an interview he conducted with his assistant, Kris Steele, at Hasbrouck’s home in Bridgeport in 2003.

Colucci testified he brought Steele to take notes and “mainly to have a witness.” He testified: “Anytime I do something of any magnitude I try to get it on video or make sure I have somebody with me.”

Colucci acknowledged he did not record his interview with Hasbrouck and that Steele’s report, which was part of the court record, made no mention of any admission.

After he telephoned Hope Seeley, one of Skakel’s lawyers, Colucci testified, Steele wrote a second report that included Hasbrouck’s alleged admission. “Kris left out a few things and I just told him what to do.” Seeley, who is now a judge, declined comment through a Connecticut Judicial Branch spokesperson. Colucci did not respond to an email and telephone call.

According to Hasbrouck’s lawyer, Lawrence Schoenbach, “Hasbrouck’s mother had forbidden him to stay out during a school night, much less go to Greenwich. His mom worked in the 40th precinct in the Bronx. She cracked the whip.” Bryant, who attended the same Greenwich private school as Michael before moving to the Bronx, brought Hasbrouck and Tinsley to Greenwich a few times, said Schoenbach, “but always on weekends.”

Hasbrouck, says Schoenbach, graduated from college, served three years in the army and received an honorable discharge. “He has been married for 25 years. He has a daughter in college. He has been a production assistant at ABC for 15 years. He was a decent kid who became a respectable adult. Imagine 30 years later somebody knocks on your door and says, ‘Did you kill Martha Moxley?’ ”

Of Kennedy’s book, Schoenbach says: “His story was rejected by the courts 10 years ago and is now repackaged. Simply because he puts it in a book and gives it a better veneer makes it no more credible.”

In an interview on NBC’s “Dateline,” Kennedy dared Hasbrouck to sue him for libel. Schoenbach said he would wait until Connecticut’s highest court rules before making a decision.

It would be disingenuous not to mention that Kennedy’s book reflects his animosity toward me as a reporter. In part, I suspect this is because of two articles I wrote. The first, published in The (Stamford) Advocate and Greenwich Time in 1991, led the state of Connecticut to reopen its investigation.
The second was a series of articles, published in Newsday in 1995, that described how Michael and his brother, Tommy, lied to the police about their whereabouts the night of the murder. That led investigators to refocus on the Skakels and away from Littleton, then their primary suspect.

I’ve often wondered why Kennedy has committed himself to Michael’s innocence. I suspect he identifies with Michael’s tragic childhood and early adulthood. Like Kennedy, Michael lost a parent as a child. Like Michael, Kennedy became an alcoholic. He was also a heroin addict. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau fired him and he was disbarred as a lawyer for two years.

But where is it written that a person of privilege and entitlement with a famous name can write lies about innocent people without consequence?

Leonard Levitt was hired by Greenwich Time and The Advocate in the early 1980s to investigate the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. An article in 1991 helped relaunch the police investigation and led to the 2000 arrest of Michael Skakel. Levitt wrote the book “Conviction” about the Skakel case. A Stamford resident, Levitt runs the website “NYPD Confidential.”

“The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth?”

International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth?” is ranked #1 on Amazon-Canada in the category “Hot New Releases – Law Enforcement” and #3 in the category “Law Enforcement.”

https://www.amazon.ca/Mysterious-Murder-Martha-Moxley-Political-ebook/dp/B01GONEAUW/ref=zg_bs_tab_pd_bsnr_1

The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley by Joe Bruno

Robert Kennedy Jr.’s new book “Framed,” says exactly the opposite of what I say in my new book “The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth?”

I maintain that his cousin, Michael Skakel, is guilty as sin of killing 15-year-old Martha Moxley in 1975. In fact, it’s a disgrace it took that long to convict him (he was found guilty of Martha’s murder in 2002).

RFK Jr. says about a dozen people, including his two family lawyers, conspired to frame his cousin, 27 years after the murder. He names several possible killers, but then, without a scintilla of proof, he settles on two African-Americans as the killers.

So much for RFK Jr. being politically correct.

Kennedy spent who-knows-how-much money to hire eight people to help him write his book (he mentions all eight in his acknowledgements at at the beginning of his books).

I, except for a proofreader, went solo.

RFK Jr. has been on numerous national TV programs, including “Dateline,” to promote his book. Plus, he’s been in scores of daily newspapers, also promoting his book.

I have done neither.

Unlike RFK Jr., I don’t have the connections; I don’t have the cash.

Still, our sales numbers are remarkable similar. My book is ranked anywhere from 12,000 to 10,000 in the the Amazon Kindle ratings (out of 5 million books). RFK’s book is ranked from 9,000 to 8,000 in the same rankings.

His book sells for $15.33 on Amazon Kindle; mine sells for a mere $4.99. Plus I throw in a free book tacked on to the end of the first book – “JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG – SPIES OR SCAPEGOATS?”

Plus, my book is FREE with Kindle Unlimited!

Considering all of the above, I don’t think I will ever be on RFK’s Christmas card list. 🙂