James Joseph " Whitey " Bulger Jr. (born September 3, 1929) is a former Irish-American organized crime boss from the Winter Gang Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. The federal prosecutor charged Bulger for nineteen murders based on jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former colleagues. Bulger is the brother of William M. Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts Senate.
According to the FBI, Bulger served as a secret informant for the Bureau which began in 1975, Bulger claims deny. However, as a result, the FBI ignores its organization in exchange for information about how it works within the rival Italian-American Patriarchal criminal family. Beginning in 1997, the media exposed criminal acts by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials associated with Bulger. Especially the FBI, this is very embarrassing. Bulger fled Boston and hid on December 23, 1994, after being notified by former FBI executive John Connolly of pending indictments under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). For sixteen years, he remains free to roam. For twelve years, Bulger was second on the FBI list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, behind Osama bin Laden.
On June 22, 2011, Bulger was arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California. Arrested with him is his lover Catherine Greig. Bulger was 81 years old at the time. Soon afterwards, Bulger and Greig were extradited to Massachusetts and taken under tight guard to John Joseph Moakley, US Court of Justice in Boston Harbor, which had to be partly closed for their arrival. Greig pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor fugitives, identity fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity fraud and was sentenced to eight years in prison in June 2012. Bulger is not seeking guarantees and remains in custody at the House of Correction in Plymouth Plymouth, Massachusetts.
On June 12, 2013, Bulger was tried on 32 charges of extortion, money laundering, extortion, and weapons, including involvement in nineteen murders. On August 12, he was found guilty of 31 counts, including charges of extortion, and was found to be involved in eleven murders. On November 14, he was sentenced twice consecutively plus five years for his crimes by US District Judge Denise Casper. Bulger is now a prisoner number 02182-748, currently jailed for life in the United States Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida.
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Bulger's father, James Joseph Bulger Sr., is from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. After settling in Everett, Massachusetts, James Sr. married Jane Veronica "Jean" McCarthy, a first-generation Irish immigrant. Their first child, James Joseph Bulger, Jr., was born in 1929.
Elder Bulger works as a union worker and sometimes a postman; he lost his arm in an industrial accident and his family became poor. In May 1938, Mary Ellen McCormack Housing Project opened around South Boston. The Bulger family moved and the children grew up there. Other Bulger boys, William Michael and John P. Bulger, excel at school; James Bulger Jr. became interested in street life.
Early in his criminal career, local police gave Bulger a nickname "Whitey" because of his blonde hair. Bulger hates the name; he prefers to be called "Jim", "Jimmy", or even "Boots." The last nickname came from his habit of wearing cowboy boots - and his favorite hid a pair of boots. However, the nickname "Whitey" stalled.
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Early criminal career
Bulger developed a reputation as a thief and a very loyal road warrior to South Boston. This led to his encounter with more experienced criminals and found more lucrative opportunities. In 1943, Bulger, fourteen, was arrested and charged with theft. At that time he joins a street gang known as "Shamrocks" and will eventually be arrested for assault, forgery, and armed robbery. He was sentenced as a teenage reformer for these crimes.
Shortly after his release in April 1948, Bulger joined the US Air Force, where his character continued to show. After basic training, he was stationed as an aircraft mechanic, first at the Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Salina, Kansas, then in Idaho. He spent time in military jails for several attacks. He was subsequently arrested by the Air Force police in 1950 for not attending without permission. Nevertheless, he received honorable dismissal in 1952 and returned to Massachusetts.
Prison
In 1956, Bulger served his first term in a federal prison when he was sentenced to jail in Atlanta for armed robbery and a truck hijacking. He then told the Kevin Weeks mafia that while there, he was involved in the MK-ULTRA program, the goal was to examine mind-control drugs for the CIA. For 18 months, Bulger and eighteen other inmates, all of whom volunteered in return for reduced sentences, were given LSD and other medicines. Bulger later complained that they had been "recruited by fraud" and were told they helped find a "cure for schizophrenia". He describes his experience as a "nightmare" and says it takes him "into the depths of madness."
Bulger moved from Atlanta to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, arriving on November 2, 1959, as a prisoner # AZ1428. He became a close friend of fellow convict Clarence Carnes, a.k.a. "The Choctaw Kid". In November 1962, he was transferred to the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary and, in 1963, to Lewisburg Federal Jail. Bulger's third petition for parole, in 1965, was awarded after he served nine years in prison. He will not be arrested again, let alone spend a day in prison, for 46 years.
The Killeen-Mullen War
After his release, Bulger worked as a janitor and construction worker before becoming a dealer and loan shark under Donald Killeen, the dominant mass leader, The Killeens, for more than 20 years in South Boston. The Killeens are led by three brothers Donnie, Kenny and Eddie along with Billy O'Sullivan and Jack Curran. Their base is the Transit Cafe in Southie which later became Whitey's Tripple O's. In 1971, Killeen's sister, Kenny, allegedly shot Michael (Mickey) Dwyer, a member of Mullen Gang's rival on his arm, and biting some of his nose during a fight at the Transit cafe. A gang war was imminent, leading to a series of killings throughout Boston and the surrounding area. The Killeens quickly find themselves losing their weapons and being defeated by the younger Mullens. During the Killeen-Mullen war, Bulger began to do what Kevin Weeks described as his first murder, Paul McGonagle.
Although [McGonagle] never did anything, he kept stirring everything with his mouth. So Jimmy decided to kill him.... Jimmy shot him right between his eyes. Just... it's not Paulie. That's Donald.... Jimmy drove straight to the house of his teacher Billy O'Sullivan on Savin Hill Avenue and told O'Sullivan... 'I shot the wrong one. I shot Donald. 'Billy... said,' Do not worry. She is not healthy either. She smokes. She will have lung cancer. "
According to former Mullen boss, Patrick Nee, McGonagle, certain O'Sullivan is responsible, ambushed and killed O'Sullivan. Bulger, realizing he was on the losing side, quietly approached Howie Winter, leader of the Winter Hill Gang, and claimed he could end the war by killing the leaders of the Killeen gang. Shortly thereafter, on May 13, 1972, Donald Killeen was shot dead outside his house on the outskirts of Framingham. Nee denied this, claiming that Killeen was killed by enforcers Mullen Gang, James Mantville and Tommy King, not Bulger.
Bulger and Killeens escape from the city, afraid they will be next. Nee arranges for disputes to be mediated by Winter and Patriarca's criminal family caporegime Joseph Russo. In a lounging at Chandler's nightclub in the South End, the Mullens are represented by Nee and King, and Killeens by Bulger. The two gangs join, with Winter as the whole boss. (Nee's recalculation is denied by Winter. "I never knew [Bulger] before that.He knew I was friendly with the Mullens gang.He asked me if I would poet.I said, 'Are you serious about this? I do not want to intercede if You will not obey it. "He said he would.") "No one speaks fault.... Deep inside, Whitey knows that he can not take over for Killeens without cutting Mullens on their bets and loan loans.... The meeting lasted six hours... This is a business.... "" The balance of meetings is spent forming alliances.... Everything is divided in the middle. horses, dogs, bets, and loan sharks will now be under our mutual control. This is the beginning of our relationship. Whitey and I are now officially partnering.... "
Soon afterwards, Donald Killeen's surviving brother, Kenneth Killeen, was jogging in the city of Point Boston. Bulger's voice called him to the car and said, "It's over, you're out of business, no more warning." Kenneth will then testify at the humiliated FBI agent John Connolly's trial that Winter Hill enforcer Stephen Flemmi and John Martorano are in the car with Bulger.
Winter Hill Gang
After the 1972 truce, Bulger and Mullens controlled South Boston's criminal underground. The FBI Special Agent, Condon, noted in his notes in September 1973 that Bulger and Nee had shaken rations and loan sharks. Over the ensuing years, Bulger began to remove the opposition by persuading Winter to approve the killing of people who "stepped out of line." In a 2004 interview, Winter recalls that a very intelligent Bulger "can teach satanic tricks." During this era, Bulger victims included veteran Mullen Gang McGonagle, King, and Spike O'Toole.
According to Kevin Weeks, "As a criminal, he makes a point just preying on criminals.... And when things can not be solved for his satisfaction with these people, after all the other options have been explored, he will not. violence... Tommy King, in 1975, is one example... Tommy's problem begins when he and Jimmy work at Triple O's [south Boston bar]. Tommy, who is a Mullins, makes a fist and Jimmy sees it. A week later, Tommy died.The second and final mistake Tommy got into the car with Jimmy, Stevie, and Johnny Martorano.... Later that same night, Jimmy killed Buddy Leonard and left him in Tommy's car at Pilsudski Way on Old projects Colony to confuse the authorities. "
In 1979, Winter was arrested, along with many members of his inner circle, on charges of fixing the racetrack. Bulger and Flemmi were left out of the charges. They stepped into a vacuum and took over the leadership of the gang. They moved their headquarters to Lancaster Street Garage in Boston near Boston Garden in the West End.
FBI informant
In 1971, the FBI approached Bulger and attempted to recruit him as an informant as part of their efforts against the Patriarca family. Special Agent FBI Dennis Condon was assigned to make pitch. However, Condon failed to win Bulger's trust. Three years later, Bulger partnered with Flemmi, an Italian-American mafia who had been an FBI informant since 1965. Although this is a documented fact that Bulger immediately followed the Flemmi example, how exactly and why it continues to be disputed. Special Agent John Connolly often boasted to his agent colleagues about how he recruited Bulger at a late-night meeting at Wollaston Beach in an FBI car. Connolly allegedly said that the Bureau could assist in the Bulger feud with Patriarca underboss Gennaro Angiulo. After listening to the field, Bulger was said to have replied, "Well, if they want to play chess, we'll play chess.
A few weeks thought it was more likely that Flemmi had betrayed him to the FBI, given the option of providing information to the FBI or returning to prison. In 1997, shortly after The Boston Globe revealed that Bulger and Flemmi had become informers, Weeks met Connolly, who showed a copy of the FBI Bulger informant file. To explain Bulger and Flemmi's status as an informant, Connolly said, "The Mafia will fight Jimmy and Stevie, so Jimmy and Stevie are against them." In a 2011 interview, Flemmi recalled, "Me and Whitey gave the [FBI] bullshit, and they gave us gold."
Menurut Weeks:
... Connolly keeps telling me that 90 percent of the information in the file comes from Stevie.... But, Connolly tells me, he has to put Jimmy's name in the files to keep his files active. As long as Jimmy is an active informant, Connolly says he can justify meeting Jimmy and giving him valuable information. Even after he retired, Connolly still had friends at the FBI, and he and Jimmy kept meeting to tell each other what was going on.... I can see that many reports are not just against the Italians. There are more Polish and Irish names, people who have done business with us, my friends.... I will see, over and over, that some of these people have been arrested for the crimes mentioned in these reports.... that's nonsense when Connolly tells me that the files are not being disseminated, that it's for his own personal interest.... If there is an ongoing investigation and his boss says, "Let me see that," what will Connolly do? He has to give up. And he certainly has.
FBI Agent John Morris was responsible for the Organized Crime Squad at the Boston Bureau field offices in December 1977. Morris not only proved himself incapable of controlling Connolly's protection against Bulger, but even began to help him. In 1982, Morris was "completely compromised", after Bulger bought a plane ticket for his girlfriend, Debbie Noseworthy, to visit him in Georgia while he was being trained for a drug inquiry. Even after 1983, when he was transferred to head the Boston FBI drug task force, Morris remained an accomplice to Connolly and Bulger.
In 1995, Bulger and Flemmi were charged with extortion along with two Boston mafiosi, Frank Salemme and Bobby DeLuca. During the discovery phase, Salemme and DeLuca are listening to recordings of bugs, which are usually permitted when the FBI has no prior knowledge of where criminal activity will occur. They heard two of the agents who were listening in the bug mentioned that they should have informed one of their informants to provide a "question list" to others. When their lawyer, Tony Cardinale, learned of this, he realized that the FBI had lied about the grounds for the bugs to protect an informant. Alleging that this was not the first time this had happened, Cardinale tried to force prosecutors to reveal the identity of every informant used in connection with the case.
Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf granted the Cardinale movement on May 22, 1997. On June 3, Paul E. Coffey, head of the Organized Crime and Extortion Section at the Justice Department, gave a sworn statement acknowledging that Bulger had been an FBI informant. Coffey stated that since Bulger was accused of "leading a criminal enterprise" while working as an informant and also now a fugitive, he "lost a reasonable expectation" that his identity would be protected.
On September 5, 2006, federal judge Reginald C. Lindsay ruled that Bulger and Flemmi's mismanagement led to the 1984 assassination of informant John McIntyre, giving his family $ 3.1 million in cash. Lindsay stated that the FBI failed to properly supervise Connolly (convicted and imprisoned in 2002) and "trapped in the sand" in connection with allegations that Bulger and Flemmi had been involved in drug trafficking, murder and other crimes for decades.
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Combine power
In February 1979, federal prosecutors demanded many members of the Winter Hill Gang, including the Howie Winter boss, for fixing the racetrack. Bulger and Flemmi will initially be part of this indictment, but Connolly and Morris were able to persuade prosecutor Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan to drop the charges against them at the last minute. Bulger and Flemmi are instead referred to as co-conspirators that are not indicated.
Bulger and Flemmi then took over the remains of the Winter Hill Gang and used their status as informers to eliminate competition. The information they gave to the FBI in subsequent years was responsible for imprisoning several Bulger associations that Bulger viewed as threats; However, the main victims of their relationship with the federal government are the Patriarca family, based in Boston's North End, and in Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island. After the 1986 RICO indictment of Angiulo and his colleagues, the Patriarca family's surgery in Boston fell apart. Bulger and Flemmi stepped into the next void to control organized crime in the Boston area.
Lit killings
In 1980, Bulger was approached in South Boston's Triple O sedan by Louis Litif, an environmental helm. Sunday, a bouncer, said, "He is not a big man, maybe five seven and 185 pounds, of Arab descent, he has a mustache like Saddam Hussein.... That night, as usual, he speaks in his loud and annoying voice. Even when there are 400 people in the bar, you always know Louie is there. "
Litif had stolen from his colleagues in a bookkeeping operation and used the money to trade cocaine, and not only refused to pay his drug discount, but committed two unlawful killings of Bulger. Litif told Bulger that he would also kill his partner, "Joe the Barber", whom he accused of stealing money from the bet operation. Bulger refused to impose these sanctions, but Litif promised to continue. Bulger replied, "You've crossed the line, you're not just a dealer anymore." Litif responds, because Bulger is his friend, he need not worry. Bulger said, "We're not friends anymore, Louie."
At that moment, Weeks was about to get married and, shortly before the wedding, told Bulger that he was having a hard time sitting on Litif. "Do not worry about that", Bulger replied. "He probably will not show up." "[Litif] has always been a major moneymaker for Jimmy... And now he wants to kill a Jimmy friend.There's no way to be allowed.A shortly after, a week or so before my wedding, Louie is found put in a garbage bag in the trunk of his car, which had been dumped at the Southern End, was stabbed with an ice pick and shot. "He coordinated colors," said Jimmy. She wore green underwear and was in a green garbage bag. '"
Halloran and Donahue's killing
In 1982, a South Boston cocaine merchant named Edward Brian Halloran, known on the street as "Balloonhead", approached the FBI and claimed that he had witnessed Bulger and Flemmi kill Litif. Meanwhile, Connolly keeps Bulger and Flemmi brief with briefings on what Halloran said to the FBI, especially his knowledge of their participation in the Tulsa assassination, Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler. Connolly reported that Halloran spent this information to the FBI for an opportunity for her and her family to be placed in the Witness Protection Program. Soon after, on May 11, 1982, Bulger, Flemmi, and Weeks were informed that Halloran had returned to South Boston.
Upon arriving at the scene, Weeks gambled on Anthony's Pier 4 Restaurant, where Halloran was eating. Michael Donahue, Halloran's friend from Dorchester, happened to meet him at the restaurant. In a decision that would prove costly to him, Donahue offers Halloran a ride home.
When Donahue and Halloran got out of the parking lot, Weeks signaled to Bulger by stating, "The balloon is in the air," above the walkie talkie. Bulger was driving with a masked man armed with a silenced Mac; Bulger itself carries.30 caliber. carbine. Disguised bulgers and other gunners fired and fired Halloran and Donahue cars with bullets. Donahue was shot in the head and killed instantly. Halloran lived long enough to identify his assailant as James Flynn, an associate of Winter Hill, who was later tried and released. Flynn remained a prime suspect until 1999, when Weeks agreed to cooperate with investigators and identify Bulger as one of the shooters. Flemmi has identified the second shooter as Patrick Nee, who has denied the allegations and has not been prosecuted.
Donahue survived by his wife and three sons. His family, and Halloran, eventually filed a civil suit against the US government after learning that Connolly had informed Bulger about the status of Halloran's informant. Both families earned several million dollars in damages. However, the ruling was canceled on appeal, due to late claims submission. Thomas Donahue, who was eight years old when his father was murdered, has become a spokesman for the families of those suspected of being killed by the Winter Gang Hill.
Year peak
Throughout the 1980s, Bulger, Flemmi, and Weeks had run illegal levies in eastern Massachusetts, for example, extortion, loan borrowing, packing, trucking, and arms trade. State and federal agencies were repeatedly impeded in their attempts to build cases against Bulger and its inner circle. This is caused by several factors. Among them there are fears of paranoid trios of tapping, South Boston's silent code and also corruption within the Boston Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although FBI agent John Connolly has long been Bulger's best-known friend in law enforcement, Kevin Weeks insists that the Massachusetts State Police Lt. Richard J. Schneiderhan is much appreciated. According to Weeks, this is because Schneiderhan is the only source of Gang Hill inside the Massachusetts State Police.
Drug trafficking
During the mid-1980s Bulger began calling drug traffickers from within and around Boston to his headquarters. Flanked by Kevin Weeks and Stephen Flemmi, Bulger will notify every dealer that he has been offered a large sum in exchange for the dealer's murder. He will then demand a large cash payment not to do so. Eventually, however, the huge benefits of drugs proved unbearable. According to Weeks:
Jimmy, Stevie and I are not in the import business and do not carry marijuana or cocaine. We are in the search business. We do not carry drugs; we take money from the people who do it. We have never dealt with street vendors, but with a dozen large-scale drug distributors across the country carrying coke and marijuana and paying hundreds of thousands to Jimmy. A street corner dealer selling eight balls...Ã, grams, and half grams to customers for their personal use. They are supplied by middle-level drug dealers who sell them several ounces. In other words, the big importers gave it to the big distributors, who sold it to the middlemen, who then sold it to street vendors. To get to Jimmy, Stevie, and me, one has to go through those four layers of isolation.
In South Boston most of the cocaine and marijuana trade in the neighborhood is managed by John Shea, known as "Red". According to Weeks, Bulger briefly considered killing Shea, but ultimately decided to destabilize him. A few weeks are also linked to how Bulger imposes strict rules on dealers who pay protection to them:
The only person we've ever taken out of business is a heroin seller. Jimmy did not allow heroin in South Boston. It is a dirty drug that users install on their arms, make trouble with needles, and then, AIDS. Although people can do cocaine socially and keep functioning, once they do heroin, they are zombies.
Some weeks also allege that Bulger strictly forbids PCP and sells it to children, and that traders who refuse to play by its rules are rudely expelled from the environment.
In 1990 "Red" Shea and her colleagues were arrested as part of a joint investigation involving the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Boston Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police Department. All refused to testify against Bulger, Flemmi, and Weeks. According to Weeks:
Of course, Jimmy lost money once the drug dealers were ejected from the streets in the summer raid, but he always did other things. Knowing I have to build something on the side, I concentrate on my shylocking and gambling business. The medicine business is good while it's going on. But our main involvement in it is over.
Only in 1999, Weapon Bulger, then a fugitive, was conclusively linked to drug trafficking by investigators. According to interviews conducted with Boston Globe reporters, Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, Kevin Weeks "estimates that Whitey earns around thirty million dollars... most of it destroys drug dealers to let them do business in his territory."
IRA engagement
From the beginning of his involvement with the FBI, Whitey Bulger "insisted... that he would never give up the IRA." Bulger had previously donated to NORAID, and sent weapons - "weapons and blocks of C-4 plastic explosives" - in a van to IRA Temporary in the early 1980s. After meeting IRA Chief of Staff Joe Cahill, Bulger and Pat Nee collected $ 1 million "by destroying drug dealers in South Boston and Charlestown." This money is used to buy weapons for the IRA, which will be sent across the Atlantic on a trawler vessel Valhalla. Bulger also personally donated some of his own weapons. Prior to the use of Valhalla , Bulger sent arms shipments overseas and C-4 into the van at least once. Bulger was annoyed when he found out that the IRA people he was supplying had burned the van that contained the weapons.
On September 13, 1984, Bulger, Weeks and Nee supervised the loading of Valhalla. The last cache included 91 rifles, 8 submachine guns, 13 rifles, 51 pistols, 11 bulletproof vests, 70,000 ammunition, plus a row of hand grenades and rocket heads. The Valhalla met 120 miles from the west coast of Ireland with Marita Ann , an IRA ship that sailed from Tralee. During the return voyage, the Irish Navy stopped Marita Ann and seized the hidden warehouse, capturing IRA members Martin Ferris, Mike Browne and John Crawley. The operation had been compromised by IRA informant Sean O'Callaghan.
When Valhalla of crew member John McIntyre was arrested "for trying to visit his estranged wife," he acknowledged his role in smuggling weapons to the Boston police. McIntyre involved Bulger in smuggling failed to FBI agent Roderick Kennedy, but Kennedy "insisted that [Bulge Robber] John Connolly heard it... talking about someone at Valhalla working together." Connolly confirms Bulger's suspicion of McIntyre, leading Bulger - and Steve Flemmi's cohort - to kill McIntyre for his betrayal. "
Lottery of the state of Massachusetts
In the summer of 1991 Bulger and Kevin Weeks, along with compatriots Patrick and Michael Linskey, became the winning Lottery Massachusetts ticket holders, who had been bought at a shop. The four men shared a reward of approximately US $ 14 million. Bulger is widely considered to have acquired his share of jackpots illegally.
Downfall
In April 1994, a joint task force of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Massachusetts State Police and the Boston Police Department launched an investigation into Bulger gambling operations. The FBI, currently considered disturbed, was not informed. After a number of dealers agreed to testify that they had paid protection money to Bulger, a Federal case was built against it under the RICO Act.
Menurut Kevin Weeks:
In 1993, and 1994, before pinching, Jimmy and Stevie traveled on the French and Italian Riviera. They both travel throughout Europe, sometimes separating for a while. Sometimes they take women, sometimes only they both leave. They will rent a car and travel throughout Europe. It's more preparation than anything, getting ready for another life. They did not ask me to leave, not what I wanted. Jimmy was ready to run for years. He has formed another person, Thomas Baxter, with an identity card and a complete credit card with that name. He has even joined an associate in the name of Baxter, building an entire portfolio for the man. He always says you should be ready to go with short notice. And he.
He also prepared a safe deposit box, containing cash, jewelry and passports, at locations in North America and Europe, including Florida, Oklahoma, Montreal, Dublin, London, Birmingham and Venice. In December 1994, he was informed by FBI Agent John Connolly who was retired that the sealed indictment had come from the Justice Department and that the FBI was set to make the arrest during the Christmas season. In response, Bulger fled from Boston on December 23, 1994, accompanied by his old wife, Theresa Stanley.
Fugitive
After fleeing Boston, Bulger and Stanley spent four days over Christmas in Selden, New York, before spending the New Year at a hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans. On January 5, 1995, Bulger prepared to return to Boston, believing that it was a false alarm. That night, Stephen Flemmi was arrested outside Boston's restaurant by DEA. Boston policeman Detective Michael Flemmi, Stephen's brother, told Weeks about the arrest. A few weeks immediately convey information to Bulger, which changed his plans.
Bulger and Stanley spent the next three weeks traveling between New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco before Stanley decided that he wanted to go back to his children. They went to Clearwater, Florida, where Bulger took his "Tom Baxter" identification from a safe-deposit box. He then went to Boston and dropped Theresa in the parking lot. He met at Malibu Beach in Dorchester with Weeks, who brought along the boyfriend of Bulger, Catherine Greig. Bulger and Greig then continued the escape together.
In his memoirs, Weeks describes a secret meeting with Bulger and Greig in Chicago, Illinois. Bulger keepsake of his time hiding with family in Louisiana. He tells Weeks, who replaces him as the head of the Winter Hill Gang, "If anyone comes down, put on me." As they head to the nearest Japanese restaurant, Bulger finally reveals how exhausted he is with life on the run. He told Weeks, "Every day out there is another day I beat them.Every good food is a food that they can not get rid of me."
In mid-November 1995 Weeks and Bulger met for the last time, in a lion statue in front of the New York Public Library, and delayed dinner at a nearby restaurant. According to Weeks:
At the end of our dinner, he seemed more aware of everything around him. Her tone was a bit more serious, and not as much of a joke as usual. He repeats the sentence he used earlier that the spinning stone does not collect the moss, which tells me that he knows he will move again. I got the feeling that he was resigning to the fact that he would not return. Until then, I always believed he thought there was a possibility he had defeated the case. However, at that moment, something different happened to him. I do not fully understand all aspects of the case. It will be six months before it becomes clearer. But at that moment, in that restaurant in New York, I felt that he had moved to a new place in his mind. It is over. He will never return to South Boston.
On November 17, 1999, Weeks was captured by a joint force from the DEA and the State Police of Massachusetts. Although at the moment he is aware of the FBI Bulger deal, he is determined to remain true to the neighborhood's silent code. However, pending trial at the Wyatt Federal prison in Rhode Island, Weeks was approached by a fellow inmate, an "artificial man" in Patriarca's criminal family. The prisoner tells her, "Son, what are you doing? Are you going to take it for these people? Remember, you can not be mad at rats The people have given everyone for thirty years."
After that, Weeks decided to break the deal with the federal prosecutor and reveal where almost every penny and body was buried. Writing in 2006, Weeks reminded:
I know all this time, however, that it would not be easy for anyone to catch Jimmy. If he sees them coming, he will take them with him. He will not hesitate. Even before he ran, he would always say, 'Let's all go to hell together.' And he's in earnest. I also know that Jimmy will not be judged. He prefers to impose a life sentence rather than putting his family through shame from the courts. If he has a weapon on him, he will come out in the glory of glory rather than spend the rest of his life in prison. But I do not think they'll ever catch it.
Manhunt
The first confirmed sightings from Bulger before his capture were in London in 2002. However, there are unconfirmed sightings elsewhere. The FBI agent was sent to Uruguay to investigate the instructions. Other agents were sent to spy on the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, as Bulger was reported as an enthusiastic fan of military history. Then the report of sightings in Italy in April 2007 proved wrong. Two people in the video clip were shot in Taormina, Sicily, formerly considered Bulger and his girlfriend Catherine Greig walking down the streets of the city center, finally identified as a tourist couple from Germany.
In 2010, the FBI shifted its focus to Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. In pursuit of Bulger, a famous book lover, the FBI visits bookstores in the area, questioning employees and spreading desired posters. After his capture, Bulger revealed that instead of being alone, he actually traveled a lot, with witnesses coming to the front to say they had seen him at the Santa Monica Pier and elsewhere in Southern California. A report confirmed by Boston police officers who were not on duty after the San Diego film screening of The Departed also caused a search in Southern California that lasted "a few weeks".
Capture
After 16 years in general and 12 years on FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica, California, on June 22, 2011. He was 81 years old at the time of his arrest.
He was arrested as a result of the work of the Burgean Bulger Task Force, composed of FBI agents and US Deputy Marshal. According to retired FBI agent Scott Bakken, "Here you have someone far more sophisticated than an 18-year-old who kills someone in a drive-by.To be a successful fugitive you must cut off all contacts from his previous life. how to stay modest. "
A reward of US $ 2 million has been offered for information leading to his arrest. This amount is second only to Osama Bin Laden's prize prize on the FBI's 10 Most FBI Most Wanted list. Bulger was featured on America's Most Wanted 16 times, first in 1995, and finally on October 2, 2010. According to the authorities, the arrest was a "direct result" of the media campaign launched. by the FBI in 14 markets across the country where Bulger and Greig are reported to have relationships. The campaign focuses on Greig, describing him as an animal lover who often goes to beauty salons.
The authorities received a tip from a woman in Iceland that Bulger lives in a beach apartment near Santa Monica. The Boston Globe identifies the secret information as Anna BjÃÆ'¶rnsdÃÆ'³ttir, former model, actress, and Miss Iceland 1974, who live in the Bulger neighborhood. A day later, "using tricks, agents and other task forces lured Mr. Bulger out of his apartment", "arrested him 'without incident', then broke into the house and arrested Greig". Bulger was accused of murder, "conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, narcotics and money laundering". The agency found "more than $ 800,000 in cash, 30 firearms, and fake ID" in the apartment. Carmen Ortiz, a US lawyer for the Massachusetts District, said "he believes the death penalty is not an option in Bulger's federal suit in his district, but he can face the death penalty for two cases outside the district". In Oklahoma, where Bulger allegedly ordered the murder of businessman Roger Wheeler Sr., in 1981, Tulsa County District Attorney Harris said, "We intend to take Bulger to court and take responsibility for Mr. Wheeler's murder." In Florida, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said, "After a 16-year delay, I will work to ensure that Miami jurors have a chance to see [Bulger] in their eyes and determine their fate."
Immediately after being taken back to Boston, Bulger began talking to the authorities. He said that during his days as a fugitive he often went back and forth across the border into Mexico to buy medicine for his heart disease. He also visited Alcatraz jail and took souvenir photos, dressed in a striped suit and stood behind a prison dungeon bar. Many anticipate, and some fear that Bulger, in exchange for favorable treatment in punishment, will tell the authorities much about corruption at the local, state and federal levels, allowing him to run his criminal enterprise for so long.
Bulger was indicted in federal court on July 6, 2011. He pleaded not guilty to 48 counts, including 19 counts of murder, extortion, money laundering, stoppage of justice, false oaths, narcotics distribution and weapons offenses.
In the 2011 interview, Kevin Weeks expressed surprise at Bulger's decision to cooperate after his arrest. Weeks said, "I do not understand because he's not the same as I remember him, I can not believe he's so fussy now, so I do not know what he's doing." Weeks adds that he is not afraid of Bulger, and that Boston's population should not be good: "I do not think he's Pablo Escobar where he can walk out of a jail cell and come to South Boston or anywhere. No, no one worries about he. "
Catherine Greig
Bulger's friend for many years as a fugitive is his old girlfriend Catherine Greig [born ( 1951-04-03 3 April 1951], which is almost 22 years younger than Bulger. Greig was raised in Boston and had identical twins, Margaret, and younger brother, David. Their father was a machinist from Glasgow, Scotland, and their mother was from Canada.
At around the age of 20, Greig married Robert "Bobby" McGonagle of South Boston, a Boston firefighter. He came from the family who led Geng Mullen and was injured during a massive shootout in 1969. Prior to a drug overdose in 1987, Bobby McGonagle was reportedly holding Bulger responsible for killing his siblings. Twins Donald McGonagle and Paul McGonagle were killed in a battle between Mullen and Killeen Gangs. Paul McGonagle's body lay hidden and buried for 25 years at Tenean Beach in Dorchester. The sister of Greig, Margaret is the widow of Paul McGonagle. Greig's sister, David Greig, was a close friend of Bulger. David was found shot dead in Cape Cod, death characterized as suicide.
Greig meets Bulger in his late 20s, after he's divorced with Bobby McGonagle. She works as a dental hygienist. Greig has been described as being intelligent, hardworking and educated, though very subject to, and dominated by, Bulger. He and Bulger lived together for some time at his home in Squantum, part of Quincy, Massachusetts. While on the run, Greig confessed to his neighbors that he was afraid Bulger was senile.
Greig has been sought by the FBI since 1999. A criminal complaint against him alleged that he harbored a fugitive, Whitey Bulger. He was represented in criminal proceedings by prominent criminal attorney Kevin Reddington from Brockton, Massachusetts. After being captured with Bulger, Greig seeks release with bail and house confinement, a rejected request.
Greig initially indicated that he would go to court rather than accept a plea bargain. In March 2012, Greig pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hide fugitives, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud. On June 12, 2012, he was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. He refused to speak during his sentence.
In September 2015, Greig was indicted on charges of criminal defamation stemming from his refusal to testify before a jury about whether anyone else helped Bulger when he became a fugitive. In February 2016, Greig pleaded guilty to this charge. Lawyer Greig recommended 12 months' imprisonment, while prosecutors - citing "unrepentant obstruction..." - asked for 37 months.In April 2016, US District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV punished Greig - then in the middle of his sentence for saving Bulger - up to 21 months on insulting charges, pushing the date of his release until the end of 2020.
Greig has served most of his eight years in the Federal Penitentiary, Waseca in Minnesota, but has also been detained at various points in Rhode Island before the trial in case of criminal defamation.
Testing blackmail and confidence
On June 12, 2013, Bulger was tried at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in South Boston before Judge Denise J. Casper on 32 allegations of extortion and possession of firearms. The amount of extortion includes allegations that Bulger was involved in 19 murders. The trial lasted two months and included the testimony of 72 witnesses; the jury started deliberation on 6 August. On August 12, the jury sentenced Bulger 31 of 32 charges in the indictment. As part of the extortion charges, the jury sentenced Bulger to the murder of 11 victims - Paul McGonagle, Edward Connors, Thomas King, Richard Castucci, Roger Wheeler, Brian Halloran, Michael Donahue, John Callahan, Arthur "Bucky" Barrett, John McIntyre and Deborah Hussey. The jury frees Bulger to kill Michael Milano, Al Plummer, William O'Brien, James O'Toole, Al Notorangeli, James Sousa and Francis Leonard. They also report themselves unable to agree on the murder of Deborah Davis, though Bulger has been found responsible for his death in a civil suit. After the verdict, Bulger's lawyer, J. W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan vowed to appeal, citing Casper's decision to prevent Bulger claiming he had been immunized.
On November 14, 2013, Bulger was sentenced to two life imprisonment, plus five years. Casper told Bulger that such punishment was necessary in light of his "unexpected" crimes, some of which caused the suffering of the "suffering" of his victims. He was also ordered to lose $ 25.2 million and pay $ 19.5 million in restitution. Prosecutors in Florida and Oklahoma announced after Bulger's conviction that they would wait until after the verdict ended before deciding whether or not to punish Bulger in their country. Bulger has been indicted in Florida for the killing of Callahan and in Oklahoma for the murder of Roger Wheeler, and can face the death penalty in those states.
In September 2014, Bulger entered the US Coleman II Prison in Sumterville, Florida. The register number is 02182-748.
Family
Bulger has two younger brothers, William "Billy" Michael Bulger (born 1934) and John P. Bulger (born 1938).
Billy Bulger served in the military during the Korean War but was never sent to Korea. He was previously the leader of the influential Democratic Party in Massachusetts. In a long political career, Senator Bulger rose to President of the Massachusetts Senate. After his retirement, he was appointed President of the University of Massachusetts system.
In December 2002, William Bulger appeared before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform and refused to testify, citing his Fifth Amendment right to self-accusations. In April 2003, the committee voted "to grant William Bulger immunity for information on Whitey's whereabouts and FBI abuses of informants." In June 2003, William Bulger appeared before the committee, where he was baked by councilors from both sides. He testified: "I do not know where my brother is, I have not known where he has been for the past eight years, I have not helped James Bulger in any way when he became a fugitive." Bulger added: "While I'm worried about my brother, I now realize that I do not fully understand the dimensions of his life.Some people may do it.According to his definition, his life is a secret.His action is hidden, hidden even from- - or perhaps hidden primarily from people who loves and cares about it. "The subject that is very interested in, the life and activities of my brother James is painful and difficult for me." Bulger said that his only contact with his brother during the escape years was a short phone call in January 1995, shortly after his brother was indicted. Following this testimony, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney launched an extended effort and eventually succeeded in getting Senator Bulger to resign from the presidency of the University of Massachusetts; Bulger resigned in August 2003.
John "Jackie" Bulger, a retired Massachusetts court clerk, was convicted in April 2003 for giving a fake oath in front of two grand juries on his sworn statement about his contact with his fugitive brother.
Personal life
Bulger was the father of one child, Douglas Glenn Cyr (1967-1973), for 12 years of common law marriage with Lindsey Cyr, a waitress and former fashion model living in North Weymouth, Massachusetts. Bulger and Cyr began living together in 1966, when Cyr was 21 years old and a waitress at the North Quincy cafe. According to Cyr, "He used to say that there were four people he would appear on the street corner for: Douglas, me, Billy, or his mother, and we all made him vulnerable." At the age of six, Douglas died of Reye's syndrome after experiencing a severe allergic reaction to aspirin injection.
Absolute nightmare, and it was very difficult for Jimmy because, no matter what, no one can save this. Money does not matter, its power is not important.... I remember that we walked out of hospital the night he died, and he held my hand. And Jimmy said, "I'll never get sick like this again."
Since Bulger's capture, Cyr has publicly announced his support for him, stating:
If he wants to see me, I'll be happy. If he needs help getting a lawyer and what you have, I'll be happy to help him. Part of me [still loves it]. I still care about her. I will always help her. I must always stand by her side. He is the father of my son. He's 12 years of my life. I want to see him well protected.... And I am not very sympathetic to some people involved, some families of victims.
After parting from Cyr, Bulger began a relationship with Theresa Stanley, Boston South divorce with several children. Bulger bought him an expensive house in the suburbs of Quincy, Massachusetts, and acted as the father of his children when he went to work "in South Boston". However, he was repeatedly unfaithful to him with other women, and was often absent while watching his organization. In an interview in 2004 Stanley declared that he planned to publish his memoir; However, he died of lung cancer in 2012 at the age of 71.
Press relations
Menurut Weeks:
Most of the time, The Boston Globe is not inaccurate like Herald . They just hit the people from Southie during the bushing. They also like to describe me as, 'surrogate son of Whitey', another example of a media that places labels on people they write. Jimmy and I are friends, unlike father and son. Even though he is the boss, he always treats me the same, like a colleague, not a boy. Reporter who seems to be doing the most research and trying hard to get a true story without Shelley Murphy, who has been in Herald for ten years when she worked for the Globe in 1993. But Jimmy and I usually laugh at almost all the news, because many times the media is wrong, again and again hold their promise to never let the truth come true. on a good storyline.
Paul Corsetti
According to Weeks' memoir, in 1980 Boston Herald reporter Paul Corsetti began researching an article about the murder of Louis Litive and suspected Bulger involvement. After reporting the story for several days, Corsetti was approached by a man who said, "I'm Jim Bulger and if you keep writing about me, I'll blow your head off." Corsetti sought help from Patriarca's criminal family, but they said that Bulger was out of their control. "The next day, Corsetti reported the meeting to the Boston police, and he was issued a pistol license within 24 hours.The policeman who gave him permission told him, 'I'm glad my last name is not Corsetti.' A few days later Jimmy told me about the incident with the police and was happy to hear how uncomfortable he made Corsetti. "
Howie Carr
In his memoirs, Kevin Weeks attributes his participation in an attempt to kill reporter Howie Carr at his home on the outskirts of Acton. A few weeks stated that Carr was targeted because he "wrote bad stories about other people, he was an oxygen thief that did not deserve breathing." Carr has been the most aggressive critic of the Bulger brothers, Whitey and Billy, for their Boston career; among his works is the book The Brothers Bulger, detailing the 25-year-old Bulger sisters to control the politics of Boston and Boston's underground world.
A few weeks stated that, although some plans were considered, all were abandoned because of too much risk of injuring Carr's wife and children. The plan reached a peak with Weeks own efforts to shoot Carr with a sniper rifle when he was out of his house. However, when Carr comes out of the front door holding his young daughter's hand, Weeks can not force himself to shoot. He wants another chance to "finish the job," but Bulger advises him to forget Howie Carr. In his 2006 memoir, Weeks stated that, although he was fully aware of the public protests that would follow him, he regretted not killing Carr. "His assassination will be an attack on the system, such as attacking the freedom of the press, the fabric of American way of life, and they will not cost to complete the crime, but in the long run, Jimmy and I get distracted and maggots live, but I wish I killed him. there's a question about that. "
In fiction and non-fiction depictions
2014 documentary Whitey: United States v. James J. Bulger , created by Joe Berlinger, based on the Bulger experiment
Movie Black Mass - released September 18, 2015 in the US - Johnny Depp star as Bulger and directed by Scott Cooper. The screenplay, by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, is based on the 2001 non-fiction book Black Mass: The Real Story of the Uncircumcised Alliance Between the FBI and Irish Mob, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The film tells of Bulger's years as an FBI informant, and his manipulation of his FBI handlers as a means to exterminate his rival to rule the underground world of Boston, the Italian Mafia.
Bulger is mentioned in the book All Souls : Family Stories From Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald - a memoir on the life of writers who grew up in Boston during the 1970s and 1980s.
Characters based on Whitey Bulger
In Season 11 Episode 21 of the television series Law & amp; The message , titled "Brother Guard," details certain plots inspired by Bulger's criminal career. In particular, Irish heritage criminals have secret working relationships with the FBI through childhood friends in the agency.
The character of Frank Costello (played by Jack Nicholson) in the film Martin Scorsese 2006 The Departed is loosely based on Bulger, although the film's plot is adapted from the Hong Kong 2002 Infernal Affairs film.
The 2006-2008 Showtime TV series
Brotherhood , about two Irish-American brothers on the opposite side of the law, inspired by the relationship between Whitey and Billy Bulger, though the show took place not in Boston but in nearby Providence, Rhode Island.
In the TV series Rizzoli & amp; Isles , aired in 2010, the character Paddy Doyle, an Irish-American mafia who is the biological father of the main character Maura Isles, is based on the romanticized Bulger vision.
In the first season of Showtime series Ray Donovan , Patrick's character "Sully" Sullivan, played by James Woods, was loosely based on Bulger.
James Turner's 2013 The James Blackjack television drama The Blacklist of a career criminal who gave himself to work with the FBI in his own way was inspired by the Bulger story.
See also
- The 10 Most Wanted People
Note
References
Further reading
- Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and FBI Agent who Fight to Bring Him Down by Robert Fitzpatrick and Jon Land; Forge Books, 2012. ISBNÃ, 0765335514
External links
- Whitey Bulger in IMDb
- Works by or about Whitey Bulger in the library (WorldCat catalog)
- Whitey Bulger Trial collects news and comments on The Boston Globe
- "Whitey Bulger collects news and comments". The New York Times .
- Bulger Case Court Documents
- Court Decisions Deny Compensation for Family Victims
- Bulger's FBI Top 10 Wanted the Most Wanted Fugitive
- Whitey Bulger at crimelibrary.com
- Washingtonpost.com, Retrieved 2015-08-27
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