Dan T. Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Los Angeles (CNN) -- Organized crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, once one of the most powerful mobsters in the nation, has been captured after 16 years on the run. One of the FBI's Top 10 most wanted fugitives and the inspiration for the 2006 Martin Scorsese film, "The Departed," Bulger -- once head of Boston's Winter Hill Gang -- was sought in connection with 19 slayings and a slew of other alleged crimes. He was arrested Wednesday at a Santa Monica, California, home along with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Elizabeth Greig, who was also wanted for harboring him. Bulger was an FBI informant before he fled in 1995 after being tipped off by an FBI agent about an impending racketeering indictment. The agent was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement. The 81-year-old -- known to alter his appearance through disguises -- was "considered armed and extremely dangerous," according to the FBI. "He has a violent temper and is known to carry a knife at all times," the FBI said in an official description of him. The FBI offered a $2 million reward for information leading directly to his arrest. "He's definitely a legend back there," Jimmy LeBlanc, who now lives in California and used to live in Boston, told CNN affiliate KABC. "You've heard all the stories, things he's done, corruption and all that. A lot of people said, 'Oh he's dead,' or maybe they don't want to see him get caught. He might take down the whole FBI if he starts talking." Bulger's brother, former president of the state Senate William M. Bulger, had little to say Thursday morning when a Boston Glober reporter approached him at his South Boston home. "No comment," said William Bulger, who answered the door in his T-shirt, the Globe reported. Told by the reporter that his brother had been arrested, Bulger said, "Thank you." Rest: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/23/california.crime.boss/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONAWARPATH Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Oh. I thought you were referring to the infamous Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Oh. I thought you were referring to the infamous Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape. It'll surface someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew_Fl Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 the 10 most wanted is dropping like flies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I hope we get a long juicy trial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 Jack Nicholson played him in The Departed. I hope we get a long juicy trial Can you imagine? I assume it'll be back in Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Today's Howie Carr Show should be absolutely epic. http://audio.wrko.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeesburgSkinFan Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 But he kept the drugs out of Southie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky21 Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I seriously thought they would NEVER catch this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chachie Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I work for America's Most Wanted. We've been profiling this guy for 10 years. The show got canceled 2 weeks ago and now this guy gets nabbed? Really? :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 I work for America's Most Wanted. We've been profiling this guy for 10 years. The show got canceled 2 weeks ago and now this guy gets nabbed? Really? :mad: They got him a few days after a media campaign began profiling his 60 year old girlfriend and publicized through women-oriented television shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Chachie, I can't believe AMW got canceled but drek like Idol and Glee stay. Any word on moving to another station? Anyway, Mladic Whitey, Osama, the Embassy Bombings mastermind, a mastermind of the Mumbai attacks...:party: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chachie Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Chachie, I can't believe AMW got canceled but drek like Idol and Glee stay. Any word on moving to another station? It will be tough to pull off because FOX owns the show. There is an effort to repackage the concept and take it to another home but that will be months (at least) in the making and no guarantees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 How can you have a name like Whitey Bulger and not be in the adult film industry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 How can you have a name like Whitey Bulger and not be in the adult film industry? It would be difficult though, to market a porno film to a large audience called, "On the Lamb." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 It would be difficult though, to market a porno film to a large audience called, "On the Lamb." Place your bets. Is ND being ironic or just dumb here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Place your bets.Is ND being ironic or just dumb here? Who cares. "The Huge-itive" works better anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassSkinsFan Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 How can you have a name like Whitey Bulger and not be in the adult film industry? Ironnically, he's supposed to have been one kinky mofo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Yahoo/AP: Boston mob boss was hiding in plain sight Friend on facebook posted this. It has some interesting things in it. One that jumped out at me: Bulger fled in 1995 after a retired FBI agent who had recruited him as a government informant tipped him off that he was about to be indicted. Soon it was discovered that the Boston FBI had a corrupt relationship with its underworld informants, protecting mob figures for decades and allowing them to commit murders as long as they were supplying useful information. While Bulger's capture is the end of a long, frustrating search for the FBI, it could expose the bureau to even more scandal.One of Bulger's lieutenants testified in 2002 that Bulger boasted that he had corrupted six FBI agents and more than 20 Boston police officers, keeping them loyal by stuffing envelopes with cash at Christmastime. "If he starts to talk, there will be some unwelcome accountability on the part of a lot of people inside law enforcement," said retired Massachusetts state police Maj. Tom Duffy. "Let me put it this way: I wouldn't want my pension contingent on what he will say at this point." At the same time he was boss of the Winter Hill Gang, South Boston's murderous Irish mob, Bulger was an FBI informant, supplying information about the rival New England Mafia. A congressional committee in 2003 harshly criticized the FBI for its use of Bulger and other criminals as informants, calling it "one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement."The retired agent accused of tipping off Bulger, John Connolly Jr., was convicted of racketeering in 2002 for protecting Bulger and another mob informant in the Winter Hill Gang, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi. Connolly was also found guilty of murder in Miami for helping to set in motion a mob hit in 1982 against a business executive. (And I'm only halfway down the page.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Biggest catch of an organized crime boss portrayed in a Scorsese movie since Henry Hill and his posse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassSkinsFan Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 If you thought The Departed was wild, you're going to be impressed when/if the truth starts to come out here. There have been several books on the subject which paint a pretty damning picture of law enforcement and its likely they just scratched the surface. This is going to be very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Biggest catch of an organized crime boss portrayed in a Scorsese movie since Henry Hill and his posse. I think you are confusing about 16 incidents. Henry Hill was never a crime boss. Hill was little more than an associate who had connections to a whole lot of criminals, including a capo in the Luchesse family. He's been busted on a bunch of drug charges since he initially went into Witness Protection, but nothing all that major. You may be think of Sammy The Bull Gravano. He flipped on John Gotti and entered Witness Protection. He left Witnesss Protection, claimed to have turned his life around, and then was busted as the head of a huge Exstasy ring in Arizona - an organization that involved his children, ex wife, and a bunch of biker gangs. Whitey Bulger was probably the biggest crime boss in New England during his run. What makes him fascinating is that he was an FBI informant from pretty much the day he took over the gang when Howie Winter went to prison. Basically, imagine if John Gotti ran the Gambinos for 18 years instead of 6 and it later turned out that he was being helped - instead of hunted - by the FBI for that entire period of time. Oh....and it turned out that Gotti's younger brother was President of the New York Senate during that entire time. If anything, The Departed would have been better if it had really been based on the Bulger family. Of course, Scorsese would have been sued. PS The Departed is not The Whitey Bulger Story. The Departed is a remake of a Hong Kong film called Internal Affairs. They basically said "What if that movie took place around a criminal who was a lot like Whitey Bulger?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Any porno with Mr. Bulger would have to be interracial in nature. "Whitey Goes Black." ---------- Post added June-24th-2011 at 02:14 PM ---------- On a more serious note?? Have you all ever given thought to where you would go on the lam? I heard that Montana and Alaska has become pretty obvious for fugitives and that newcomers are basically looked at as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 The Departed is not The Whitey Bulger Story. The Departed is a remake of a Hong Kong film called Internal Affairs. They basically said "What if that movie took place around a criminal who was a lot like Whitey Bulger?" I hope most would realize that. I'm not sure how Whitey would have survived all of those bullet holes Nicholson had in him by the end of The Departed. I'm definitely going to order "Black Mass" off Amazon this weekend - hadn't realized the extent to which Whitey's brother had power in Massachusetts. If I'm a citizen in that area, I'm absolutely infuriated that the (most likely) crooked politician is still getting $200,000 a year from his pension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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