'Whitey' Bulger killed at federal prison in West Virginia

[George II]

Source: Boston Globe

Notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed Tuesday at a West Virginia prison, according to three people briefed on the situation.

The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a fellow inmate with Mafia ties is being investigated for the slaying at the US Penitentiary Hazelton.

Bulger’s brother, John, said in a brief telephone interview Tuesday that the family had not been notified of his death.

The WV News website reported that a male inmate was slain overnight at the maximum security prison where Bulger, 89, was being held. A union official said a man had been killed, but he didn’t know who.

Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/10/30/james-whitey-bulger-moved-hazelton-federal-prison-west-virginia/2lFAoqNktMi5fjaJ8PWRAI/story.html

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To be honest, I thought he'd died years ago. Sorry to say, no big loss.

[Hekate]

1. Wow. He lived to be 89 & still managed to die the Mafia way. No condolences from here. nt

[janterry]

2. Wow. That's so surprising

He was certainly terrible.

But so surprising.

[Corvo Bianco]

3. I not immediately recalling who this is but

I'm anti-being killed during confinement. What a shit system.

[janterry]

5. Winter Hill Gang, Boston

while he ran through Boston, killing and making money
His brother, Billy Bulger, ran the state house (President of the Mass Senate)

[atreides1]

6. Here you go!!!

Learn what kind of man he was! It may not change your mind but at least you'll know who and what he was!!!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger

[Corvo Bianco]

13. I'm getting the impression from these responses that it

Will change my mind. I'm prepared. Thanks I'll go read now

[janterry]

16. I always remember reading about how he killed

Flemmi's step-daughter. Flemmi took her shopping, then they took her downstairs in the basement and Bulger strangled her.

Afterwards, Bulger took a nap

She was 26 years old

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10196733/James-Whitey-Bulger-strangled-to-death-accomplices-stepdaughter.html

[jmowreader]

7. He was one of Boston's worst mobsters

He’s infamous not for killing nineteen people (which he did) but for helping the FBI arrest members of rival gangs so as to cut down competition.

[nycbos]

14. An he fled into hiding because of a corrupt FBI agent.

They grew up in the same housing projects in South Boston. (Or Southie as the locals call it)

[Snellius]

4. Deserving or not, still hate to see anyone murdered the way he did and was done to.

When justice kills others the way they killed, it's not so much a deterrent but perpetuates the same murderous and self-perpetuating state of mind.

[Devil Child]

8. Fitting end for a monster n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Just saw a WaPo breaking (they put it in their obituary section)

Whitey Bulger, Boston crime boss and elusive fugitive, dead in prison at 89

By Paul Duggan
October 30 at 1:27 PM



At the peak of his nefarious career, James “Whitey” Bulger, the long-ago murderous Boston mob boss, wasn’t one to dwell on his mistakes, even when he killed the wrong guy a few times. For back then, as whispers had it, Whitey was untouchable. However, in 2015, after three schoolgirls wrote to him in prison as part of a history project, seeking his views on “leadership” and “legacy,” the octogenarian ex-gangster, a ninth-grade dropout, responded with a rueful letter.

In the Coleman II federal penitentiary in Florida, he filled a sheet of college-ruled notebook paper with tidy cursive, lamenting, “My life was wasted and spent foolishly, brought shame + suffering on my parents and siblings and will end soon.” Now it has.

Mr. Bulger, whose bloody reign in the Boston underworld was aided by crooked FBI agents in the 1980s, and who later went on the lam for 16 years, living incognito by the California seashore, was found dead Oct. 30 while completing the first of his two life sentences. He was 89.

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday that Bulger, 89, was found unresponsive at a penitentiary in Bruceton Mills, West Va. Responding staff attempted life-saving measures and he was pronounced dead by the county medical examiner. No other details were immediately available.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/whitey-bulger-boston-crime-boss-and-elusive-fugitive-is-killed-in-prison-at-89/2018/10/30/271ec004-dc61-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html

[sfwriter]

10. Bulger has his own ties to Mueller in the Rightwing Propaganda Machine

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19863153/trump-hannity-mueller-whitey-bulger/

"As it happens, Mueller worked in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston between 1982 and 1985, during the heyday of Whitey’s career with the Feds, and while the case of the four unjustly imprisoned men was fighting its way upwind in the courts against pushback by a complicit federal law-enforcement community. Spectacularly, the president*’s primary apologists, including Hannity and the newly recruited Alan Dershowitz, as well as influential Boston columnist and talk-radio host Howie Carr, are now working overtime to pin substantial blame for the baroque corruption on Mueller. It’s all squid-ink and desperate crapola, but it seems to be finding an audience among the Deep State paranoids who are the president*’s most loyal followers."

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[irresistable]

15. that makes me very suspicious about his murder

[Eugene]

11. The Mafia, they say? Not a complete surprise.

He crossed everybody.

[Drahthaardogs]

20. Not Mafia. Irish thug gangster.

Mafia = Sicilian

Ndrangheta = Calabrese


Comora = Napolitano

[Eugene]

21. Bulger made a career of informing on the Boston Mafia

among the other underworld figures he crossed. As the OP states, one of his suspected killers has Mob ties.

[Drahthaardogs]

22. Live by the sword, die by the sword

May he reap in the afterlife ten times what he sowed on Earth.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Thugs. All thugs, crooks, and just plain losers. I'd imagine all of these mafia types have ...

been involved in numerous schemes, including killing, of which they were never convicted of, so when one so called mafia guy dies, too bad. They probably deserved it 1000s of times over, and society was either brought off or didn't have enough evidence.

Again, thugs.

[geomon666]

17. Black Mass is a great movie

That's all I've got.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Was indeed.

[Xolodno]

19. Live by the sword, die by the sword. n/t