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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an Irish-American organized crimeboss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston.[2][3] Federal prosecutors indictedhim for nineteen murders based on the grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former associates. Bulger was the brother of William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts Senate. [4] However adamantly denied by Bulger, the FBI admitted that he served as an informant for several years starting in 1975.[5] He provided information about the inner workings of the Patriarca crime family of Providence, the Italian-Americancrime group who were his rivals. In return, his corrupt and high-powered FBI handler ensured that his own crime group effectively went ignored. [6][7][8] Beginning in 1997, the news media exposed various criminal misconduct by officials tied to Bulger from federal, state, and local law enforcement. This caused great embarrassment to each of these agencies, however none more so than the FBI. [9][10][11][12]
On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for 16 years.
The fugitive was finally apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California on June 22, 2011. By then he was 81 years old. [1][13][14][15] Bulger and Greig were then promptly extradited to Massachusetts and taken under heavy guard to the United States Courthouse on Boston Harbor, which had to be partially closed for their arrival. In June, 2012, Greig pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, to identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud, receiving a sentence of eight years in prison. Bulger declined to seek bail and remained in custody.
Bulger's trial began on June 12, 2013. He was tried on 32 counts of racketeering, money laundering, extortion and weapons charges, including complicity in 19 murders. [16] On August 12, Bulger was found guilty on 31 counts, including both racketeering charges and was found to have been involved in 11 murders.[17]On November 14, he received two consecutive life sentencesplus five years for his crimes by U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper.[18] Bulger was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida.[19]
Bulger was transferred to several facilities in October 2018; first to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahomaand then to the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, near Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.[20] Bulger, who was in a wheelchair, was found dead on October 30, 2018, at the age of 89. He was killed by inmates within hours of his arrival at Hazelton.[21][22][23]
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