@luvmybeetle wrote:
@Pearlee wrote:
From the NY Post citing the Boston Globe:
"Infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed Tuesday, shortly after being transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia, a law enforcement source told The Post.
A fellow inmate with Mafia ties is under investigation in the slaying at the Hazelton federal penitentiary in Bruceton Mills."
The article continues - check the website.
OK, I'm not new to the world but I don't remember him. I know I've heard the name but don't know what he did. Of course I know what a gangster is but tell me about him.
According to the FBI, Bulger served as a confidential informant for the Bureau beginning in 1975, a claim Bulger denies.[5] However, as a result, the FBI largely ignored his organization in exchange for information about the inner workings of the rival Italian-American Patriarca crime family.[6][7][8] Beginning in 1997, the media exposed criminal actions by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials tied to Bulger. For the FBI especially, this caused great embarrassment.[9][10][11]
On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled Boston and went into hiding after being tipped off by his former FBI handler, John Connolly, about a pending indictment under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). For sixteen years, he remained at large. For twelve of those years, Bulger was second on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, behind Osama bin Laden.[12]
On June 22, 2011, Bulger was arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California along with his long-time girlfriend Catherine Greig. Bulger was 81 years old at the time.[1][13][14][15] Soon after, Bulger and Greig were extradited to Massachusetts and taken under heavy guard to the United States Courthouse on Boston Harbor, which had to be partially closed for their arrival. Greig pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity fraud and was sentenced to eight years in prison in June 2012. Bulger did not seek bail and remained in custody at the Plymouth County House of Correction in Plymouth, Massachusetts.[citation needed]
On June 12, 2013, Bulger went on trial for 32 counts of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and weapons charges, including complicity in nineteen murders.[16]
On August 12, 2013, Bulger was found guilty on 31 counts, including both racketeering charges, and was found to have been involved in eleven murders.[17] On November 14, he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus five years for his crimes by U.S. District Judge Denise Casper.[18] Bulger became inmate number 02182-748,[19] incarcerated for life at the United States Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida.[20]
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