News Whitey Bulger killed in prison

saphojunkie · 10-30-2018, 05:42 PM

He was 89(!). Suspected Italian mafia hit.

Can't escape your past forever...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46036058

Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger killed in prison

Spoiler!

Jewish Rabbi · 10-30-2018, 05:45 PM

Man I remember when he took over for Kurt Warner when he played for the Rams. Didn’t realize he was that old.

TwistedChief · 10-30-2018, 05:47 PM

****ing Veach doesn't do anything today and this is the result...

Why Not? · 10-30-2018, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi

Man I remember when he took over for Kurt Warner when he played for the Rams. Didn’t realize he was that old.

This is underrated comedic gold.

PunkinDrublic · 10-30-2018, 10:14 PM

Honest question, if his family were so inclined would they be able to sue the prison system for failing to protect Bulger? Isn’t a known criminal like Bulger supposed to be in protective custody or is that only for guys who agree to testify for a reduced sentence?

**Rain Man** · 10-30-2018, 05:50 PM

89 years old? I guess someone was afraid that he was going to rat out a Prohibition bootlegger.

saphojunkie · 10-30-2018, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

89 years old? I guess someone was afraid that he was going to rat out a Prohibition bootlegger.

I find that just unfathomable. Dude must have ended up with someone who never forgot or forgave.

Spott · 10-30-2018, 05:56 PM

Bring him in for a look?

Naptown Chief · 10-30-2018, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Spott

Bring him in for a look?

His corpse can't be any worse than Parker.

Naptown Chief · 10-30-2018, 05:58 PM

"He apparently liked Alcatraz so much, he visited and posed as a tourist - while he was on the run."

MTG#10 · 10-30-2018, 06:02 PM

My junk has often been referred to as a Whitey Bulger, I guess this is where it came from

CasselGotPeedOn · 10-30-2018, 06:04 PM

**TribalElder** · 10-30-2018, 06:06 PM

Rest in Piss Rat

R Clark · 10-30-2018, 06:10 PM

One nasty sob , it's a wonder it didn't happen sooner. The movie staring Depp as Bulger is a pretty good movie if you haven't seen it give it a try

PAChiefsGuy · 10-30-2018, 06:17 PM

He's a snitch who ratted on all his friends who trusted him with their lives in order to save his own ass. He got what he deserved.

Rot in hell snitch...

10-30-2018, 05:42 PM	Topic Starter
saphojunkie MVP Join Date: Aug 2011 Casino cash: $4566550	Whitey Bulger killed in prison He was 89(!). Suspected Italian mafia hit. Can't escape your past forever... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46036058 Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger killed in prison Spoiler! Infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger has been found dead in a US federal prison in West Virginia. The 89-year-old was discovered unresponsive at the maximum security facility shortly after being transferred there from a Florida jail. A prison union official told the Associated Press news agency the death was being investigated as a homicide. The life of Bulger, who was convicted in 2013 of 11 murders, inspired several films. The former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2007. His death comes on the same day that he was transferred to the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, which houses 1,385 inmates, according to reports. An inmate with mafia ties is under investigation for Bulger's killing, three sources briefed on the incident told the Boston Globe. Bulger was severely beaten by one or more of his fellow inmates shortly after arriving at the prison, law enforcement sources told CBS. Boston-based WFXT-TV, a Fox affiliate, reports that Bulger was killed hours after being admitted to the general inmate population. The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment last week on why Bulger - who was serving a life sentence - was being moved from the Florida penitentiary. But according to the Globe, Bulger was transferred to Florida in 2014 from another prison in Arizona after his relationship with a female psychologist who was counselling him attracted the attention of prison authorities. The details of his death have not been announced, but a local union official for correctional workers at the prison told CBS that a "homicide" occurred on Tuesday morning. "This is the third homicide in seven months at our facility," Richard Heldreth said in a phone interview. "We are very understaffed, we are short about 40 officers." A Department of Corrections statement on Tuesday confirmed his death in custody, and said the FBI had launched an investigation. The statement made no mention of the cause of death, but said that "no staff or other inmates were injured, and at no time was the public in danger." US Attorney for the Massachusetts district Andrew Lelling said that his office had been informed of Bulger's death, adding: "Our thoughts are with his victims and their families." Who was James 'Whitey' Bulger? Bulger was born in 1929 as one of six children in an Irish-American family. Raised in Boston's Irish-Catholic South Boston neighbourhood, he became involved with a gang The Shamrocks as a young man, starting off by stealing cars and soon escalating to robbing banks. He was first arrested for delinquency as a young teenager. Bulger masterminded a criminal empire of loan sharking, gambling, extortion, drug dealing and murder. After being convicted of armed robbery and hijacking, he was sent to the infamous San Francisco prison-island Alcatraz. He apparently liked Alcatraz so much, he visited and posed as a tourist - while he was on the run. During his criminal career, Bulger attempted to provide weapons to the Irish Republican Army. He once strangled two women with his bare hands and tortured a man for hours before using a machine gun to riddle his head with bullets. Bulger is said to have disliked his nickname Whitey - which derived from his light blond hair - preferring to be known as Jimmy. His underworld activities were enabled by a rogue FBI agent who tolerated his felonies so he would supply information on other gangsters. Bulger's brother William was a powerful local Democratic politician who became president of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1978 and later the president of the University of Massachusetts. The politician always denied any knowledge of his brother's crimes, but maintained that he loved his brother and could never betray him to law enforcement. Bulger went on the run in 1995 after the FBI agent tipped him off to an impending indictment. The mobster was arrested in 2011 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been hiding out with his girlfriend Catherine Greig, who remains incarcerated at a women's prison in Minnesota. He was convicted in 2013 of a litany of federal crimes, including participating in 11 murders across the US throughout the 1970s and 80s. The US government paid more than $20m in damages to his victims on the grounds he had committed his murders while under government supervision. In a 2015 letter to a group of students who had written to him for a history project, Bulger appeared to express remorse for his past. "My life was wasted and spent foolishly," he wrote.
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