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Boston Globe
11-06-2025
- Boston Globe
Trial of Irish firefighter charged with raping woman in Boston hotel set to resume
Defense attorneys, in their opening statement, told Suffolk Superior Court jurors Crosbie did not rape the woman and that On the witness stand Tuesday, the woman wept as she described what prosecutors called a 'nightmare' attack. Advertisement 'I woke up, and a guy was inside of me,' the woman said, tears streaming down her face as she read a text message she sent to a friend shortly after the alleged attack. On Monday, the woman described her day on March 14, starting around 1:45 p.m. with a 'staff appreciation party' at Big Night Live with coworkers. She later went to State Street Provisions, a restaurant near the New England Aquarium, around 7 p.m. before arriving at The Black Rose pub around 9 p.m. The woman said she drank about five or six beers throughout that period. 'I was totally coherent,' she testified. She said the alcohol made her 'looser' but had no 'negative impact' on her. Advertisement At the bar, the woman met a man named Liam O'Brien, who was part of the Irish Fire Brigade, she said. The woman said she and O'Brien continued to speak and dance throughout the night before eventually going to his hotel room, which he was sharing with Crosbie, around 11:30 p.m. The woman said she did not know anyone else was staying in the room. She said she and O'Brien had consensual sex, and she fell asleep on a separate bed. She woke up to someone raping her and ordered him to stop, she testified. 'What are you doing? Stop!' the woman told him, according to a police report. After the alleged assault, she said Crosbie followed her around the hotel room, trying to kiss her, and pushed her against the wall as she gathered her clothes to leave. The woman said she left the room within 10 minutes of waking up. On cross-examination, Crosbie's attorneys repeatedly asked the woman about her account of events, focusing on aspects of her story they said had changed, such as whether the bathroom light was on during the alleged rape or what exactly Crosbie said to her. 'It's fair to say your testimony from yesterday doesn't match what you first told the detective,' Daniel C. Reilly, Crosbie's attorney, asked the woman, referring to her description of the incident. 'Yes,' she responded. When the woman saw photos of the hotel room in court, as well as security images of her leaving the room, she began to cry. The woman said she messaged a friend at 2:18 a.m. to say she had been assaulted. She went home and changed her clothes before going to Massachusetts General Hospital, where she spoke with police. Advertisement 'I hate everyone,' the woman wrote her friend. 'What the [expletive] is wrong with people.' The message also said that Crosbie allegedly told her 'he knew [she] wanted it and how pathetic it was his friend couldn't give that.' Reilly said the woman's blood alcohol level at the hospital was .135, above the legal driving limit of 0.08 percent. When asked if she was still impaired at the time, the woman replied, 'I guess.' Carly Littlejohn, a registered nurse in the emergency department of Massachusetts General Hospital, also testified on Tuesday. Littlejohn completed the evidence collection kit on the woman early on March 15. Littlejohn said the woman was medically cleared to undergo the collection kit, meaning she could give her consent. On redirect, Assistant Suffolk District Attorney Erin Murphy asked the woman why she didn't cry out for help in the hotel room or the hallways as she left the room. 'I just wanted to get out of there,' she said. 'I didn't know anyone; I just wanted to get out.' John R. Ellement of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. Ava Berger can be reached at
Boston Globe
10-06-2025
- Boston Globe
Woman testifies at rape trial of Irish firefighter about alleged attack in Boston hotel
Prosecutors allege that Crosbie raped a 'female stranger' while she slept at the Omni Parker House hotel in downtown Boston on March 14, 2024, when he was in the city to participate in the St. Patrick's Day parade with fellow members of the Dublin Fire Brigade. Advertisement During her testimony on Tuesday, the now 29-year-old woman, who is a lawyer, was crying and wiping her eyes with tissues. At times during her testimony, she had to stop speaking as she sobbed and recalled the night of March 14. Defense attorneys contend that Crosbie did not rape the woman and that Advertisement 'It's fair to say your testimony from yesterday doesn't match what you first told the detective,' Daniel C. Reilly, Crosbie's attorney, asked the woman, referring to her explanation of the incident on Monday. 'Yes,' she responded. Crosbie wore a gray suit jacket and appeared to take notes and watch the woman on the stand. Crosbie's wife was in the courtroom on Tuesday, according to his attorneys. In her testimony on Monday, the woman described her day on March 14, starting around 1:45 p.m. at Big Night Live for a 'staff appreciation party' with co-workers. She later went to State Street Provisions, a restaurant near the New England Aquarium, around 7 p.m. before arriving at The Black Rose around 9 p.m. The woman said she drank about five or six beers throughout that period. 'I was totally coherent,' she testified. The woman said the alcohol made her 'looser' but had no 'negative impact' on her. At the bar, the woman met a man named Liam O'Brien, who was part of the Irish Fire Brigade, she said. The woman said she and O'Brien continued to speak and dance throughout the night before eventually going to O'Brien's hotel room, which he shared with Crosbie, around 11:30 p.m. The woman said she did not know anyone else was staying in the hotel room. She said the pair had consensual sex, and she fell asleep on a separate bed. Crosbie entered the room at some point in the night and saw the woman 'vulnerable and defenseless' in his bed at the hotel, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Daniela Mendes said. 'He saw an opportunity and took full, violent advantage of it,' Mendes said on Monday. Advertisement In her testimony on Tuesday, the woman described waking up and someone raping her. 'What are you doing? Stop!' the woman told police she said to the man. She described Crosbie allegedly following her around the hotel room, trying to kiss her, and she said he pushed her against the wall as she gathered her clothes to leave. The woman said she was in the room for about 10 minutes from when she woke to leaving the hotel room. When the woman saw photos of the hotel room in court and then herself leaving the hotel room, she began to cry. The woman then messaged a friend at 2:18 p.m. to say she had been assaulted. She went home and changed her clothes before going to Massachusetts General Hospital, where she spoke with police. 'I hate everyone,' the woman said in the text message to her friend. 'What the [expletive] is wrong with people.' The text also said that Crosbie allegedly told her 'he knew [she] wanted it and how pathetic it was his friend couldn't give that.' Reilly, Crosbie's attorney, said the woman's blood alcohol level when she later went to the hospital was .135, which is over the legal driving limit of 0.08%. When asked if she was still impaired at the time of her blood being drawn in the hospital, the woman said, 'I guess.' After talking about the legal limit, Reilly asked the woman, 'You were still intoxicated,' when she was at the hospital. The woman said, 'Yes.' Carly Littlejohn, a registered nurse in the emergency department of Massachusetts General Hospital, also testified on Tuesday. Littlejohn completed the 'evidence collection kit' on the woman in the early morning of March 15. Advertisement Littlejohn said all patients who are undergoing a collection kit must consent. To do so, they have to be 'completely clinically' sober, she said, which is a medical term. Patients who can consent can answer questions such as where they are and who they are, as well as 'showing no signs of intoxication,' Littlejohn said. Littlejohn said the woman was medically cleared to undergo the collection kit, meaning she could consent then. On redirect, Assistant Suffolk District Attorney Erin Murphy asked the woman why she didn't cry out for help in the hotel room or the hallways as she left the room. 'I just wanted to get out of there,' she said. 'I didn't know anyone; I just wanted to get out.' Ava Berger can be reached at
Business Journals
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
Five things: Southie power plant, Fast 50 event, Harvard cuts and what caused Tatum's injury
Good morning, Boston. We had a blast at the Fast 50 event last night at Big Night Live — here are the winners, and stay tuned for photos later today. Now, here are the five things you need to know in local business news to start your busy Wednesday. 1. Southie project plans shift as market slows Grant Welker reports that the old Edison power plant in South Boston and its developers face a very different real estate market from when planning started in 2016. Now, the developer is considering changing the order in which it plans to build the six-building, 1.7-million-square-foot project. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Find Local Events Near You Connect with a community of local professionals. Explore All Events 2. Trump slashes another $450M in Harvard grants Welker also reports that the Trump administration yesterday said it is terminating roughly $450 million in grants to Harvard, on top of the $2.2 billion in funding already cut. 3. Mass. biotech leaders say drug pricing order 'not the solution' The executive order that President Donald Trump signed Monday — which he says will reduce prescription drug prices — was met with opposition from Massachusetts' life sciences trade group, Hannah Green reports. On the calendar: Join the Boston Business Journal for our 9th annual Business of Pride event, featuring our 2025 LGBT Corporate Ally Award and LGBT Trailblazer Award honorees. 4. Fastest-growing companies feted The No. 1 fastest-growing company in Massachusetts over the three-year period from 2021-2024 is mental health and wellness company Uwill of Natick. Uwill was among several awardees recognized last night at the BBJ's annual Fast 50 event, including an architecture firm that grew revenue 136% and a 30-year-old facilities-services business that grew 73% in just the past three years. 5. Cambridge cancer biotech halves workforce Green also reports that cash-strapped Leap Therapeutics is making significant job cuts as it navigates a 'difficult market environment.' What else you need to know By the numbers 600 — housing units that could start as soon as next year at the former Edison power plant in Southie (see above), instead of the 860,000 — square feet of office and R&D that had been planned initially could start as soon as next year 1,000 (approximately) — Aramark union workers at Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall who are planning a strike vote in June to advocate for higher wages. planning a strike vote 52 — employees at Leap Therapeutics, half of which are expected to be laid off What's going on? The Charles River Regional Chamber's annual Spring Business Breakfast: 2025 Economic Outlook is this morning at the Needham Sheraton Hotel, featuring Ashley Stolba, the interim state Secretary of Economic Development, and Mary Burke, a principal economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. See you there? En español The number of people in Massachusetts identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is growing — and a new study shows significant differences across age groups. This article is also available in Spanish in partnership with El Planeta Media. Este informe está disponible en español, traducido por El Planeta Media. Today in history On this day in 1984, lawyer Jan Schlichtmann filed the first motion in the Woburn case made famous by the book and film "A Civil Action." (Read more at What's good on WERS-FM Most Wanted Man, by Lucy Dacus What I'm listening to Carrigan & Co. podcast What I'm watching Celtics City, on HBO/Max Who's at fault for Tatum's injury? The news Monday night about Celtics star Jayson Tatum's ruptured his achilles tendon came as a shock to everyone. As a 'non-contact' injury, every Celtics fan is looking around helplessly and wondering, 'how did this happen?' I have the answer. I discovered that a member of the Business Journal newsroom who hails from Los Angeles and is an avowed Lakers fan — along with four friends — cursed the Celtics at the start of the playoff series against the Knicks. It wasn't an ordinary curse. No run-of-the-mill hex. They pooled their money and purchased a bad luck spell from a witch who sells such curses on Etsy. This is not a joke. They really did this. I have no proof that their purchased curse — which could also be to blame for the Celtics choking so badly in Games 1 and 2 — was powerful enough to do the damage done to Tatum. I'm told they spent $3 each. But it was a bad-luck spell they purchased, and there's no worse luck than what happened to Tatum on the court Monday night. I'm not revealing the name of this particular employee, to protect him from any ill-intentioned Celtics fans who may read this. But I have suggested he start wearing an Italian horn necklace and carrying a Mexican milagro or a rabbit's foot if he knows what's good for him. PARTING SHOT Speaking of basketball, how many times have you passed by public courts in rough shape, full of cracks, weeds and divots? This New York artist resurfaces public courts and turns them into pieces of art: Subscribe to the Morning Edition or Afternoon Edition for the business news you need to know, all free.
Business Journals
13-05-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
Boston Business Journal's 2025 Fast 50 companies unveiled
The Boston Business Journal unveiled this year's' Fast 50, the companies that had the largest revenue growth from 2021 through 2024. Honorees were celebrated at an event at Big Night Live.
Axios
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Your Boston summer concert guide
Greater Boston music fans will have plenty to pick from this year as major touring artists and some big festivals come to the area. Why it matters: There's something for everyone, from aging classic rock acts to up-and-coming artists. 🎶 May May 23-25: The Boston summer music scene really kicks off Memorial Day Weekend when the Dave Matthews Band, Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne headline this year's Boston Calling festival. Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, Sheryl Crow, T-Pain, TLC, Cage the Elephant, The Black Crowes, Vampire Weekend, Sublime, Public Enemy, Remi Wolf and Goth Babe are also booked. May 29: Shakira kicks off the Fenway Park concert season. 🎸 June June 10: Queens of the Stone Age along with The Kills will be at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. June 15: Simple Minds at Xfinity Center. June 20: Mumford & Sons at Xfinity Center. June 23-24: Hozier comes to Fenway Park. June 26: Counting Crows: The Complete Sweets! Tour with The Gaslight Anthem at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. 🎵 July July 8–9: Tyler, The Creator plays two nights at TD Garden. July 8: Wiz Khalifa & Sean Paul at Xfinity Center. June 10-11: The Weeknd plays Gillette Stadium July 11: Wu-Tang Clan will be at the Garden. July 15: Coldplay plays Gillette Stadium. July 17: The Lumineers will be at Fenway Park. July 21: Flamboyant metal for the masses — Ghost plays at TD Garden. July 24: The boy bands are back with the Jonas Brothers at Fenway Park. July 26: America's most risque, controversial and outrageous singer, JoJo Siwa, will be at Big Night Live. July 25: Chris Brown comes to Fenway Park. July 31–August 1: Linkin Park at TD Garden. 🎤 August
