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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 ...
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 ...
Prior to Bulger’s death, employees at USP Hazelton had voiced concerns about violence and understaffing. After Bulger was killed, prison officials were criticized for placing him in the general ...
An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison.
On October 30, 2018, notorious mob leader and long-time fugitive Whitey Bulger was found beaten with a sock-wrapped padlock and stabbed to death with a shiv in the facility after arriving there the previous day. [11] Bulger had been transferred from the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City to Hazelton on October 29, 2018. [12]
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 ...
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.