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Trial Set for Whitey Bulger After 19 Killings, 16 Years on Lam
NBC News ^
| 6/4/2013
| Tracy Connor
Posted on 06/04/2013 12:03:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As the trial of alleged Boston gang boss, FBI informant and former fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger begins with jury selection Tuesday, Steve Davis is looking for three things: answers, justice and eye contact.
"He will not turn back and look at any of us," Davis complained Monday night after Bulger, wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, sat stony-faced through a lengthy pre-trial hearing.
"What a coward."
Davis's sister, Debra, was allegedly strangled by a bare-handed Bulger in 1981 because she planned to break up with his partner, Steven "The Rifleman" Flemmi. That's one of 19 slayings the 83-year-old Bulger is accused of in a 33-count indictment that includes racketeering, extortion, weapons and money-laundering charges.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bulger
To: nickcarraway
That's one of 19 slayings the 83-year-old Bulger is accused of in a 33-count indictment that includes racketeering, extortion, weapons and money-laundering charges.He could have avoided all this if he had just run for Senate, or been a political appointee.
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posted on
06/04/2013 12:12:47 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: nickcarraway
My late aunt,a lifelong Bostonian and proud to have grown up in “Southie” used to idolize Whitey's brother,Billy...the former President of the Massachusetts State Senate and Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts.”But he's a filthy crook,Peg” I'd say to her.”Do you know how many languages Billy speaks,Tom?” she'd say in reply.Too bad she didn't live long enough to see Billy take the 5th about 20 times while testifying before a House Committee (in DC,not Boston).
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posted on
06/04/2013 12:14:07 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: nickcarraway
Does anyone know if this trial will be streamed live?...
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posted on
06/04/2013 12:16:30 PM PDT
by
~Vor~
(Freeper since 10/98)
To: Gay State Conservative
An old pal from high school somehow ended up in this gang.. (Head of loan sharking and bookmaking).Bulger’s tentacles spread far and wide I guess : )
To: stephenjohnbanker
An old pal from high school somehow ended up in this gang.. (Head of loan sharking and bookmaking).Bulger’s tentacles spread far and wide I guess : ) Well,you know what they say...."Whitey did it with a club,Billy did it with a gavel"
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posted on
06/04/2013 12:31:36 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: ~Vor~
Does anyone know if this trial will be streamed live?...I sincerely doubt it.I think there's a law forbidding the presence of cameras in Federal courtrooms.That's why you see the work of "sketch artists" in trials of that sort...Mafia trials,for example.
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posted on
06/04/2013 1:06:38 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: nickcarraway
Feels strange to say it but, “Kill Whitey!”
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