But 2018 was also the year his father died while traveling in India that set into motion a Plymouth County Probate Court matter that continues to leave more questions than answers and continues to challenge any progress in Brian Walshe’s sentencing in the art world fraud, which has been rescheduled time and again to the chagrin of prosecutors, defense and U.S District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock.
“I want to find out what’s going on in probate court,” Woodlock said during a June 9 sentencing hearing, the third scheduled since Brian Walshe pleaded guilty on April 1, 2021.
Brian Walshe was the first and only child born to Diana and Dr. Thomas M. Walshe III, and the way things have played out, it seems the two parents viewed their son quite differently.
“My son is the ONLY reason I get up in the morning. He is the ONLY person to take care of me and he is always there for me,” Diana wrote on her son’s behalf on Aug. 26, 2021. She says he is “the main caregiver for all his three sons. He cooks, shops, cleans, plays, communicates boundaries, and reads bed time stories.”
It was in care for his mother, who has battled lung cancer, Brian allegedly told police when they were investigating Ana Walshe’s disappearance on New Year’s Day, that he drove up to her home in Swampscott that day to make some errand runs to CVS and Whole Foods. Police now say that was a lie. They say his phone was pinging elsewhere, in Abington and Brockton, places he wasn’t allowed to go while under house arrest in the federal matter.
But if you are to believe the current representative of the late Dr. Walshe, the namesake of the general neurology division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the relationship between father and son was practically nonexistent.