The BBC are stopping short of saying it was murder, saying that he was found dead and that it is being investigated as a homicide.
I just read on another website that three inmates who had Mafia ties beat him to death with a “lock in a sock” - a padlock in a sweat sock.
It does look like there was some planning involved, doesn’t it?
A guy with ties to the Mafia, which had old business to settle with Bulger?
A special Investigator that just happened to run the Boston office of the FBI when Whitey was running amok?
What’s the over/under on how long it takes his brother John (‘The corrupt midget’) to file a wrongful death suit?
Somebody who really wanted the eleven points.
One of Doctor Seuss’s lesser known works.
Would you beat him with a lock?
Would you put it in a sock?
Say! Would you kill an ancient Don?
Would you wish him dead and gone?
Is there a boss from old beantown?
Who wants the old man’s ass beat down?
Could you, would you with a shiv?
Would you make him cease to live?
They could not shank him on the Rock
But would you beat him with this lock?
Do you know a crew not mouthy?
Willing to end this crusty Southie?
Would you whack this dirty rat?
This criminal gerontocrat?
Are you one we can appoint?
To whack him in the transfer joint?
Once he hits the W V pen?
To make sure he won’t breathe again?
This gangster tale is trite and lazy
I think I’ll sell it to Scorcese
But who will be his Anti-hero?
Is there a good Irish DeNiro?
Scorcese’s signed up Brendan Gleeson
It’s either him, or Liam Neeson
None of you has seen Black Mass?
Johnny Depp starred, it was pretty bad-ass.
Sorry, I can’t get behind bludgeoning a 89 year old man in a wheelchair to death. They tried to gouge his eyes out.
That’s just flat out disgusting and sick. The old man couldn’t even defend himself.
Doesn’t matter what Whitey did or who he killed during his mob days. He was sentenced and sent to prison. He wasn’t given a death sentence. The prison had a responsibility to ensure his safety.
I’m very suspicious of this prison “transfer” right into the waiting fists of some mob guys. That’s not a coincidence imho.
In Goodfellas Henry Hill says the mob could have killed him in prison just as easily as on the outside.
Gouging eyes is another example of a mafia type hit , they also shoot people in the eye, like Moe Greene in the Godfather.
Could be the mob bribed someone to send him to that prison.
Billy is the “corrupt midget.” Which made it especially amusing that he was played by the 6’ tall Benedict Cumberbatch. John/Jackie wasn’t important enough to get a cool nickname.
What do you want, tears?
And now, the mad scramble to find the rest of the missing money has begun…
On one side, we have the Mob. The other side, the corrupt FBI, and on the third side, the even more corrupt state government. Break out the popcorn!