So it’s just the lack of cites that keeps getting it removed? Time to dig out my autographed copy of fat ass liar Howie Carr’s book.
Why bother. I heard somewhere that dickhead doesn’t know shit about Whitey.
Actually Carr has a website that calls Bulger “a notorious sodomite” who uses women as beards (for decades even when in hiding it would seem), but concedes “he was also very macho”.
I’ve read a couple of books about Bulger, interesting to see he’s finally been caught. I thought he was hiding out in the west of Ireland. That’s where Danny Greene’s hiding from the Mafia.
I just read about him for the first time yesterday, in a Cracked article. Weird.
Based on where Bulger and Bin Laden were found, Nessie and Hoffa have probably been shacked up in the Champs Elysees for the last 30 years.
I agree. It’ll be interesting to see who disappears now that Bulger’s been found.
I don’t think anyone is going to disappear.
I, like everyone else around Boston, think that deals were made before the arrest, more deals will be made soon, and any trial that is held will be severely limited in scope to minimize testimony. Perhaps Bulger will plead guilty the truck driver’s murder with a recommendation of life imprisonment, possibly backed up by medical testimony that Bulger is in very poor health.
Bulger goes to prison and is treated as well as he can be to ensure he keeps his mouth shut. (Grieg, I suspect, will be thrown to the wolves.) The bereaved, which will include most of Southie and half of Dorchester, will be outraged, and the papers will play that up to boost circulation but never really hold anyone’s feet to the fire.
Several cheap paperbacks will come out within a year and three serious works of historical criminal scholarship several years later (and one each by Carr and Cullen, late enough to separate themselves from the vultures, early enouigh to be listed as references in later books). Everyone will have their favorite conspiracy theory, but the truth will be no more than we’ve always known - Whitey was a poor vicious sociopath who played a boy from the old neighborhood and traded on some fools’ ambitions and ego.
The tip came in from Iceland, for heaven’s sake.
I don’t know. My experience has been that the best insurance policy a criminal can have is information about crooked cops. Internal Affairs and District Attornies love to bring down crooked cops (the Serpico days are long over). Even the public supports it - if a criminal gives up other criminals, he’s a snitch. But if he gives up cops, people forgive him - there’s the instinct that the cops deserve whatever they get if they were playing both sides of the law. You’re expected to choose one side and stick with it. So Bulger’s best chance of cutting a deal is to offer up the police and FBI agents he was bribing.
Does anyone else wonder if John Stewart is mad that Whitey Bulger was caught just after the Weiner scandal dropped off the radar?
I was at Northeastern for an event, going back to my dorm, which was near the BP Headquaters…I looked over and there were all these newsvans outside. Tried calling (as I don’t have an IPhone, and there was no TV around) but nobody picked up. Then next day during break I went to the store to get a paper, and all the papers were front paging that Whitey got arrested.
There maybe too broad a gray area between criminal collusion and the compromises necessary to run a confidential informant to make a distinction between guilt and idiocy.
There will be no paper-trail providing evidence of guilt or innocence; no memos suggesting a tighter rein on Bulger, no inexplicable infusion of cash in someone’s bank account. If there were, it would have come out when Connolly convicted.
The only evidence would be Bulger’s testimony, maybe backed up by Connolly or Morris. I wouldn’t convict a dog of not having a license on their testimony, and I would have nothing but contempt for anyone who suggested I should.
Pat Fitzgerald could come in to prosecute, and I still would believe nothing the government put forward if Bulger was a supporting witness.
(And I don’t think I believe Bulger came back to Boston several times heavily armed; I think he’s just messing with their heads.)
The big issue: William Bulger (ex-UMASS president and corrpt senator) has denied contacting brother Whitey. An examination of Whitey’s cell phone records should be illuminating.
If it can be proved that Billy was in communication with Whitey, can Billy be charged with “harboring a fugitive”.
I’d love that.
Hasn’t he already admitted to having contact with him since he went into hiding?
Per Wikipedia, William Bulger was forced out as president of UMass after admitting he’d spoken to Whitey shortly after he went on the run. He did not tell the FBI about being in contact with his brother. He was also seen as refusing to cooperate with the search and I think people were skeptical of his claims that he didn’t realize Whitey was a big time mobster. So he admitted to speaking to him once and there’s more that is being inferred. If there was proof he was in regular contact with Whitey, that would indeed be very different. Although it’s unlikely Whitey would have had just one phone this whole time.
I just read that ironically, Jack Nicholson, whose charcter in The Departed was based on Bulger, lives about 10 minutes from where he was found.
There’s no telling how many corrupt former FBI agents, and maybe MaSP and BPD cops for that matter, are relieved to have only the murder charges going forward. Even so, there’s 19 of them, and then there’d be the Florida and Oklahoma charges. He isn’t going to spend the rest of his worthless life in prison; he’s going to spend it in court.
Fortunately, the list of victims includes a couple of white girls, so every minute will be on cable.