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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.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was looking into Bulger's death and a prison employee briefed on the matter said it was being investigated as a homicide. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons statement had ...
At 8:20 a.m. on October 30, the 89-year-old Bulger [5] was found unresponsive in the prison. Bulger was in a wheelchair and had been beaten to death by multiple inmates armed with a sock-wrapped padlock and a shiv. His eyes had nearly been gouged out and his tongue almost cut off. [6] [7] [8] This was the third homicide at the prison in a 40 ...
Fotios "Freddy" Geas -- the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence -- was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning New England crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger to ...
The 89-year-old's murder took place hours after he had been transferred from a prison in Florida. At the time of Bulger's death, Geas was serving a life term for the 2003 murders of Genovese crime ...
Bulger’s family sued prison employees after his death, alleging prison wardens and other correctional officers were “intentional or deliberately indifferent” to the danger Bulger faced in ...
Oct. 1—One of the three men indicted for their roles in the 2018 murder of James "Whitey " Bulger at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Hazelton appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas S ...
John Joseph Connolly Jr. (born August 1, 1940) [2] is an American former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice and murder charges stemming from his relationship with Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi and the Winter Hill Gang.