It's Worse Than Has Been Reported Previously

Wahlberg, 43, also reports that his criminal convictions “still legally impact me to this day,” noting that his prior record could be used to deny him a concessionaire’s license in California, where he lives with his wife and four children. He adds that this is an “important consideration given my personal involvement in various restaurant ventures.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Mark-Wahlberg-pardon-petition-8 76321

He owns a chain of very successful restaurants called Wahlburgers http://www.wahlburgersrestaurant.com/ with his brothers Donnie and Paul. There was a reality series made about the restaurant on A&E. http://www.aetv.com/wahlburgers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3333880/?ref_=nv_sr_4

http://www.vulture.com/2011/08/mark_wahlberg_wahlburgers.html

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/26622234/mark-donnie-wahlberg-to-open-3 -las-vegas-restaurants


Wahlburgers, a casual burger restaurant founded by brothers Mark, Donnie, and Paul Wahlberg and subject of an A&E TV reality series, announced multi-unit franchise deals in Florida and New York.

Davgar Holdings Group, LLC, will open 20 Wahlburgers restaurants throughout Florida over the next several years, as New York-based Big Apple Burgers prepares to launch six restaurants in Manhattan and one on Coney Island.

Since its 2011 debut in Hingham, Wahlburgers has 40 stores either open or under agreement. Franchise agreements have been secured in Philadelphia and Las Vegas in addition to Florida and New York. Two corporate-run Wahlburgers are slated to open in Greater Boston next year.

http://www.lowellsun.com/business/ci_27073518/wahlburgers-lands-deals- fla-n-y-franchises?source=rss

So he really doesn't need the petition to run 40 (and expanding) restaurants. The only reason he wants it is to expand into California, which bars him from having a concessionaire's license due to his criminal record.

From http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Mark-Wahlberg-pardon-petition-8 76321:


Wahlberg’s pardon request includes a description of the April 1988 incident during which he attempted to steal two cases of beer from Tranh Lam as he departed a convenience store in Dorchester (where Wahlberg grew up). Wahlberg hit Lam over the head with a large wooden stick, knocking the victim unconscious. As he fled the crime scene, Wahlberg punched a second man, Hoa Trinh, in the face.

"As he fled the crime scene" after knocking Lam unconscious, he punched another man in the face.

“During the incident, I was under the influence of alcohol and narcotics,” Wahlberg wrote in his petition. He added, “From later accounts of the incident, it is my understanding that I may have caused serious injuries” to the two men.

The drugs made him do it. No responsibility here.


But Wahlberg skirts other ugly details of the attacks, which are included in the original prosecution sentencing memo.

Prosecutors reported that he called Lam a “Vietnam *beep* *beep* at the outset of the attack. When Boston cops apprehended Wahlberg and brought him back to the scene of the assault, he told officers, “You don’t have to let him identify me, I’ll tell you now that’s the *beep* whose head I split open.” Investigators reported that Wahlberg also made “numerous unsolicited racial statements about *beep* and ‘slant-eyed *beep*

In unrelated court filings, government lawyers accused the teenaged Wahlberg and two friends of chasing and throwing rocks at black schoolchildren. [b]On successive days, the trio screamed racial epithets at the students and, during one chase, “the group of white males yelled, “Kill the *beep* kill the *beep* according to a government complaint.


ON SUCCESSIVE DAYS. This shows a pattern of criminal activity just like with the Vietnamese men.


The children were set upon when Wahlberg & Co. spotted them walking through Dorchester. “We don’t like black *beep* in this area so get the *beep* away from the area,” one of the attackers said to three siblings traveling together. “The group of white males then chased [the siblings] using their mopeds," the complaint charged.

The following day, Wahlberg’s crew threw rocks at a group of students (and their teacher) at the conclusion of a field trip to Savin Hill Beach in Dorchester.

The decision to grant a pardon to Wahlberg--who says that he attends church on an almost daily basis--is in the hands of Deval Patrick, the first African-American governor of Massachusetts. (8 pages)

These events took place in June of 1986 according to court documents on the Smoking Gun site. This was just a few years before the incidents on the Vietnamese men, which happened on April 8, 1988. Ironically, he had signed an agreement not to harass people due to their race as part of his plea bargain, but violated that by attacking the Vietnamese men.


I've put myself through emotional torture making this movie,' he says. 'It's taken me to unimaginably dark places. The Lovely Bones is a chilling story, especially so if you're a parent. The murder of a child is the very last thing any mother or father ever wants to think about. I read about the terrible things that people do to children and I know that if anyone like them came near my kids, I'd kill them.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1238052/Mark-Wahlberg- I-left-mean-streets-Hollywood.html#ixzz13Rk6M5VB


Ironically, other people's children don't count and he should be pardoned for his past crimes. That is why he is such a hypocrite.


As a Catholic I fundamentally believe in forgiveness. So I'd hope I never had to face a situation where a sex offender moved into my neighbourhood. I've been taught to forgive and forget. But when it comes to hurting the innocent, I don't know if I'd be able to turn the other cheek. I might have to do what instinctively pushes my buttons.'

All of his victims were innocent, especially the black school children he harassed for days on a moped with his gang of friends. Yet, he continued to commit crimes after those incidents by further harassing other black children and assaulting and robbing Vietnamese men.


'I've never been daunted by a script,' he says. 'But as soon as I realised what The Lovely Bones involved, I really had to think about whether I wanted to go to that dark place every day during filming.

'There were countless times when I felt perilously out of my depth, wondering if I could manage any more of it. Every day I'd get down on my knees and pray for all the parents who'd lost children. To understand my character I needed to understand the murderer but I could never get close to reasoning out what would lead someone to take the life of a child.

Sure. He beat one man unconscious, blinded another man in the eye, and harassed a group of black school children. I don't think that would be such a stretch for him.

'Maybe people who take that road fall back on blaming their own past. But I don't believe that's anything more than a cop-out. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life and I've done bad things. But I never blamed my upbringing for that. I never behaved like a victim so that I would have a convenient reason for victimising others. Everything I did wrong was my own fault. I was taught the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I take full responsibility.'


He needs to walk his talk as asking for his record to be expunged is not taking full responsibility. Using maternal neglect as an excuse for his criminal behavior is also not taking responsibility. Why is that on his imdb page? This shows a pattern of blaming his mother for his criminal activity.

His life of crime began with street fighting and stealing cars, quickly escalating to drug dealing and robbery. At 16, high on drugs, he was part of a gang that embarked on a robbery spree, which resulted in Wahlberg blinding a shopkeeper in one eye. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment yet served a mere 45 days.


'Looking back I was always acting. Whether I was pulling a scam or trying to convince a judge the scam had nothing to do with me, it was all acting. I could convince my mother of anything. Even when I'd admit to something she'd say, "No, it must have been someone else." To this day my mother blames everything on anyone but me.'

So he conveniently uses his mother to dodge responsibility for what he has done at the same time claiming that he is all about personal responsibility.

More recently he spent time filming at Billerica House Of Correction in Massachusetts to research his role as boxer Micky Ward in The Fighter.

'We were about to film a scene and I felt I needed to talk to some of the inmates. The warden felt this was a dangerous idea. If they started opening cell doors, some of these guys were likely to attempt an escape. But I got my way. These prisoners knew the area I grew up in so they respected me for that. They knew I'd been in trouble and served some time. What they really wanted to know about was how I managed to turn my life around.

'They were saying, "What chance have we got? When we get out of here and go back to our neighbourhoods, the cops know all about us. They'll mess with us and we'll end up back inside."

'I told them that when they get out they can't wait for the cops to go to them and grab them. They have to go to those cops and say, "Look, I know I've been nothing but a problem and a menace but I've decided I'm going to reform so give me a break." See, you need to show people you're going to change. If you build up this reputation over the years, it's going to take some time to repair that. You do that by setting an example.'

He should follow his own advice and be an example of how to take responsibility for past crimes instead of asking for a pardon.

These days home is a palatial residence in one of the most exclusive areas of Beverly Hills.

And his elderly Vietnamese victims are living in a crappy one-bedroom apartment either on disability or Social Security or working menial jobs to make ends meet.


He regularly visits his old neighbourhood as part of his work with the Mark Wahlberg Foundation. Launched in 2001 with the aim of creating opportunities for local children, it takes care of most of Wahlberg's spare time.

'I'm totally committed to it on a day-to-day basis,' he says. 'We send kids to school, set up teenage centres, give them Christmases they wouldn't ordinarily have. A lot of these kids have been in and out of the legal system and have had drug problems.

'Quite a few of them are the kids of guys that I used to run the streets with. When I'm working with these kids I want to show them that it's possible to follow their dreams. A lot of my friends from back in the day aren't alive now. I was one of the few who made it out. My message is that, if I could do it, they can do it too.'


Wait, I thought the reason he wanted the petition was so that he could work with children. I guess not. It's good that he is doing that, but he lied about that as a reason for getting the petition. It obviously is not.


These days he can afford any car he desires. His current collection includes a customised Mercedes-Benz Brabus, a Maybach, a Bentley Azure and a Cadillac Escalade Hybrid SUV.

'I drive more for style than speed these days. I'm not looking to break any limits. The only time I step on the pedal is when I'm rushing to the golf course at six in the morning.'


And his elderly victim is living in a crappy apartment, unable to drive due to him blinding him in one eye.


'Man, the Beckhams. It used to be so quiet on my road. Then David moves in with his family. Suddenly we've got paparazzi hanging out day and night. Now they'll follow any car that drives down the road. I take strong exception to that kind of thing. When I take my kids to the park I don't want strangers sticking their lenses into our faces.

How inconvenient for him, but not as inconvenient as being assaulted until unconscious or blinded in one eye.


'I'm not telling Beckham to take his family home. I'm just not sure why he came to America in the first place. Man, we don't want your soccer. There's no way Americans are going to buy the idea of 90 minutes of running around without much happening. Thanks for trying guys, but we'll stick to baseball and basketball.'

Just as he's about to boil over, a PR enters and hands him his charged mobile. As I make my exit, he's whispering sweet nothings to his wife. At least for now, everything is good in Wahlberg's world.

Yes, David Beckham should not be in America while Wahlberg who is operating more than 40 restaurants should get pardoned so that he can open one in California. It's ironic that as a celebrity, he is blaming another one for being chased by paparazzi when he probably brings the same situation wherever he goes. So it is all about blaming others yet not taking responsibility for what he has done. It's all about entitlement and believing that he deserves to get what he wants whatever the cost, but others have to pay the price.