Whitey Bulger is a hero to some

[ginscpy]

Sad but true. A vicious serial killer.

Probably will rot out the rest of his worthless life in prison.

 

[ginscpy]

no hero to me

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - If ya want sumpin' done right, do it yerself...

Alleged US mobster ‘did own dirty work’
Fri, Jun 14, 2013 - The trial of alleged Boston mob kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger opened on Wednesday, with prosecutors describing a murderous drug dealer and extortionist who “did all the dirty work himself.”

The defense meanwhile denied claims that Bulger — who was arrested in June 2011 after 16 years on the run and was the inspiration for Jack Nicholson’s character in the 2006 film The Departed — was an FBI informant. The 83-year-old is accused of 19 murders, extortion, money laundering and arms trafficking, but reports that he served as an informer have raised questions about why it took federal investigators so long to track him down. “It’s a case about organized crime, public corruption and all sorts of illegal activities,” prosecutor Brian Kelly said. “And at the center of all this murder and mayhem is one man,” who led “a group of criminals who ran amok in the city of Boston for 30 years.”

Kelly described the Irish-American Bulger as a godfather in Boston’s seedy underworld, one who would not hesitate to strangle, shoot, kill or maim anyone he saw as a rival, informer or witness to his criminal activities. Bulger “made millions extorting people” and “a ton of money selling drugs, especially cocaine,” Kelly said. He said Bulger served as an FBI informant from 1975 to 1990, helping to shut down two other crime groups that rivaled his own Winter Hill Gang. Bulger, who graced the FBI’s most wanted posters for more than a decade, watched the proceedings in silence.

Defense lawyer JW Carney denied the allegations, saying Bulger would have never cooperated with the FBI and noting that much of the testimony against him comes from criminals with an incentive to cut deals with the authorities. “Bulger was never an informant,” he said. Bulger “is of Irish descent, and the worst thing an Irish person can do is become an informant.” He added that Bulger had paid off the now-retired FBI agent John Connolly, indicating that the alleged mobster had infiltrated the police. “Ask yourself: Would an informant be paying tens of thousands of dollars to the agent? Wouldn’t it be the other way around?” he said. Connolly “wanted people to believe that James Bulger was an informant and he created a file.”

Bulger faces 32 charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to last into September. Bulger was arrested in 2011 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living under an assumed name with his longtime girlfriend. Police found about US$800,000 in cash and an arsenal of weapons in his modest apartment. Authorities say Bulger committed 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s and remained a leading Boston crime boss into the 1990s. His criminal activities allegedly included extortion, money laundering and even running guns to the Irish Republican Army. Bulger fled Boston in January 1995 after an FBI contact allegedly warned him that he was about to be arrested. He was spotted in London in 2002, and in California in 2000 and 2005, but evaded arrest.

Alleged US mobster ?did own dirty work? - Taipei Times

 

[JoeBlam]

Bulger's relationship with the FBI is telling.....which is the more dangerous criminal enterprise....his gang or theirs?

 

[Katzndogz]

Sad but true. A vicious serial killer.

Probably will rot out the rest of his worthless life in prison.

He's not a serial killer. He just liked killing, but he didn't do so randomly.

 

[Sallow]

Sad but true. A vicious serial killer.

Probably will rot out the rest of his worthless life in prison.

Bulger wasn't a serial killer.

He was a gangster.

The killing he did was part of the business.

Serial killers kill for a different reason.

Learn the difference.

 

[High_Gravity]

I think ginscpy drank himself into a coma.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Sad but true. A vicious serial killer.

Probably will rot out the rest of his worthless life in prison.

Bulger wasn't a serial killer.

He was a gangster.

The killing he did was part of the business.

Serial killers kill for a different reason.

Learn the difference.

He did it because he enjoyed it...like murdering two young women. He was aided in his efforts by crooked FBI agents and his brother Billy Bulger (aka, the corrupt midget), a corrupt local politician.

Someone should slip ground glass into his food and save the taxpayers a lot of money.

 

[52ndStreet]

Oh yes, White criminals are always glorified, and the black criminals vilified. Give me a break hero?!.
They always turn these white criminals into some kind of Robin Hood hero type.

 

[Sallow]

Oh yes, White criminals are always glorified, and the black criminals vilified. Give me a break hero?!.
They always turn these white criminals into some kind of Robin Hood hero type.

Give it a rest.

 

[Sallow]

Sad but true. A vicious serial killer.

Probably will rot out the rest of his worthless life in prison.

Bulger wasn't a serial killer.

He was a gangster.

The killing he did was part of the business.

Serial killers kill for a different reason.

Learn the difference.

He did it because he enjoyed it...like murdering two young women. He was aided in his efforts by crooked FBI agents and his brother Billy Bulger (aka, the corrupt midget), a corrupt local politician.

Someone should slip ground glass into his food and save the taxpayers a lot of money.

Please tell me you are not in law enforcement.

 

[High_Gravity]

Oh yes, White criminals are always glorified, and the black criminals vilified. Give me a break hero?!.
They always turn these white criminals into some kind of Robin Hood hero type.

Shut the fuck up.

 

[Sallow]

Oh yes, White criminals are always glorified, and the black criminals vilified. Give me a break hero?!.
They always turn these white criminals into some kind of Robin Hood hero type.

Shut the fuck up.

You belligerent drunk you.

 

[Katzndogz]

Was it ever determined who thought Bulger was a hero?

 

[Gracie]

I guess I missed the part where he is considered a hero to some.

 

[Unkotare]

Sad but true. A vicious serial killer.

Probably will rot out the rest of his worthless life in prison.

A hero to whom?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Bulger wasn't a serial killer.

He was a gangster.

The killing he did was part of the business.

Serial killers kill for a different reason.

Learn the difference.

He did it because he enjoyed it...like murdering two young women. He was aided in his efforts by crooked FBI agents and his brother Billy Bulger (aka, the corrupt midget), a corrupt local politician.

Someone should slip ground glass into his food and save the taxpayers a lot of money.

Please tell me you are not in law enforcement.

Hell no. I could never work around so many thugs, sadists, and sociopaths...and that's just the other cops.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Was it ever determined who thought Bulger was a hero?

Three or four delusional, senile fools still claim "he kept drugs out of Southie"...that's about it.

 

[Pogo]

I guess I missed the part where he is considered a hero to some.

It was all plainly explained in all those links in the OP, the same ones that explained who he is.


Oh wait.......

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says dey gonna fry him inna `lectric chair till he sizzles an' his eyes pop out...

‘Whitey’ Bulger jury mulls Boston mob trial verdict
Fri, Aug 09, 2013 - LEGAL LIABILITIES: The judge told jurors they had to be unanimous to find Bulger guilty of any act in the 32 criminal counts he faces, including 19 murders

The statute of limitations does not shield James “Whitey” Bulger from murder and racketeering charges stemming from crimes more than 30 years old, the US judge overseeing the Boston mobster’s trial told the jury on Wednesday. US District Court Judge Denise Casper also set the jury straight on a question about the complicated racketeering law that was raised on the second day of deliberations after nearly eight weeks of testimony.

The jury of eight men and four women approached the judge twice. They asked whether any of Bulger’s alleged crimes were committed too far in the past for him to be held accountable and whether jurors needed to be unanimous on his alleged acts of racketeering for a finding. Bulger, 83, faces life in prison if convicted on a list of charges, including 19 murders that he is accused of committing or ordering while heading Boston’s Winter Hill Gang in the 1970s and 1980s.

JURY DUTY

Casper reminded jurors the statute of limitations cannot erase racketeering charges and also clarified jury procedures around the most complicated of the 32 criminal counts that Bulger faces: racketeering. That count includes 38 individual acts, including the 19 murders. Casper said that while jurors must be unanimous to find Bulger guilty of any individual act, he only needed to be guilty of two of those acts to be guilty of that racketeering count. “If you cannot reach unanimous agreement ... you should make no finding to that act and move on to the next act,” Casper instructed the jury. The jury was to take up its third day of deliberations yesterday.

Jurors began deliberations on Tuesday after 36 days of mostly gruesome testimony. Former hit men, FBI agents, drug dealers and other witnesses described brazen killings, corruption of law enforcement, massive drugs and weapons heists and harrowing extortion encounters. Bulger escaped arrest for decades, allegedly with the help of corrupt FBI agents who shared his Irish ethnicity and South Boston upbringing. Prosecutors said the agents turned a blind eye to Bulger’s crimes in exchange for information about the Italian Mafia, then a top national FBI target.

RATTY DEFENSE