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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (/ ˈ b ʌ l dʒ ər /; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly ...
Oct 31, 2018 · BOSTON — The inmates who killed James (Whitey) Bulger, Boston’s notorious crime boss, deliberately moved out of view of surveillance cameras in a West Virginia prison before pummeling him with ...
Jun 24, 2024 · Whitey Bulger, American crime boss who, as head of the Boston-area Winter Hill Gang, was a leading figure in organized crime from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. For more than a decade, until his capture in June 2011, he was listed by the FBI as one of its 10 most-wanted fugitives.
Aug 23, 2022 · The murder of James "Whitey" Bulger was planned “as soon as” the notorious mobster had arrived at the prison in West Virginia where he was found beaten to death, a Justice Department ...
Oct 30, 2018 · To the families of those he executed gangland-style and to a neighborhood held in thrall long after he vanished in 1994, Mr. Bulger’s arrest in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011 and his conviction ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Whitey Bulger was a prominent figure in Boston's organized crime scene from the 1970s until the mid-'90s when he fled the area. Captured in 2011, he was later found guilty of federal racketeering ...
Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger begged to be in general population popped heart medication in the hours before he was killed inside Hazelton federal prison.
May 14, 2024 · Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show.
Jun 17, 2024 · One of three inmates charged in connection with the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has pleaded guilty to falsifying statements to federal agents.
Oct 30, 2018 · Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET. Convicted mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, who rose to power as a secret informant to the FBI and counted on FBI agents to help him get away with murder and extortion, was ...
