Whitey Bulger Crime

On June 22, 2011, an eighty one year old man was coaxed out of his Santa Monica apartment where he was arrested by federal agents. The man was named James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and had been a fugitive from justice for sixteen years. He spent twelve of his sixteen years on the lamb at the top the Federal Bureau of Investigations top ten most wanted list in the company of terrorists like Osama Bin Laden. Bulger was a notoriously brutal and hands on organized crime boss in South Boston, Massachusetts. Whitey Bulger was a well-known extortionist, drug trafficker, racketeer, and murderer. How did a man who was so well known stay hidden for so long? James bulger’s life is a very interesting tale of murder and mayhem and, according to the FBI, cooperation …show more content…
James J. Bulger that has many of the actual victims or victim’s families. We also get to hear firsthand from people directly involved in these criminal activities such as Kevin Weeks. Weeks was an enforcer I the Winter-Hill gang and murdered many people throughout Whitey’s reign and testified to that effect. It seems there is no honor among thieves as Weeks was not the only member of the gang to roll over. Flemmi was already working for the FBI and according to many accounts so was Whitey. However, he vehemently denies this in the documentary. We never see Bulger in the documentary except in surveillance video but we do get to listen in on direct conversations between him and his lead defense attorney. Bulger states that the leader of the New England task force, Jeremiah T. O’Sullivan came to him for protection, fearing for his life after the takedown of the ‘Patriarcha’ crime family in Boston. Whitey states that in return for his protection that O’Sullivan would provide him with delicate information that could save him from arrest as well as keeping the FBI and other agencies off his track. Bulger states in the phone call that “He [O’Sullivan] was under his umbrella of protection and in return, I was under his”. Growing up in South Boston, the worst thing you can be is a rat. Or rather, someone who cooperates with the police. I think this previous story could be a clever guise to cover the fact that …show more content…
agents as well as Massachusetts State Police were essentially on Whitey’s payroll and provided him with information that prevented him from indictment and arrest. Some of these people, namely FBI agent John J. Connelly Jr., were de facto members of the gang. Connelly was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for racketeering and obstruction of justice for his involvement with Bulger. So, we can certainly see that Bulger had a nice buffer and was a protected man due to his own dealings as well as Stephen Flemmi’s informing. I think these are enough to have saved him from arrest and I lean towards believing that Bulger was not an informant. He was courted by the F.B.I. to inform but the evidence doesn’t seem to hold up. Expert witnesses claim that they don’t think it is viable that Bulger was an informant owing to the little and obscure information that was held in Bulger’s top-echelon informant file. The file was about 700 pages of information that was duplicate of so lacking in detail that nothing could have ever come from it. Expert witnesses in the case testified that similar informant files with similarly long (decades) durations of cooperation would be tens of thousands of pages long. Also, what sold it for me was the examination of well-known informant files which had several hand written signatures on the pages showing who read and had possession of the pages and surprisingly Bulger’s file was

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