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Famed crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger arrested in Santa Monica
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 22, 2011 | None Cited

Posted on 06/22/2011 9:35:14 PM PDT by No One Special

Legendary Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who has been on the run for more than a decade, was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, multiple law enforcement sources told The Times.

Bulger, 81, has been the subject of several books and was the inspiration for "The Departed," a 2006 Martin Scorsese film staring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.

Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 as federal agents were about to arrest him in connection with 21 killings, racketeering and other crimes that spanned the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.

He was arrested by the FBI inside a building without incident, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. The details surrounding his arrest were unclear Wednesday night.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: howiecarr; mafia; santamonica; whiteybulger
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To: nutmeg
Nutmeg!
Howie won't be able to do the show. from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM he'll be laughing so hard they'll need a fill in~!

I so hope Bulger spills his guts about everything.

41 posted on 06/22/2011 10:36:03 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: No One Special
Whitey Bulger, second from left, early 1940s in Southie.


42 posted on 06/22/2011 10:36:45 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: No One Special; SE Mom

Hallelujah! Anxious to hear the details.


43 posted on 06/22/2011 10:39:52 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: mylife

You forgot Al Quaida. The Chicago boys are spreading wide.


44 posted on 06/22/2011 10:45:21 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: No One Special

Kill “Whitey”?


45 posted on 06/22/2011 10:50:00 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ("We hold it in our power, to begin the world anew")
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To: razorback-bert
How did they capture him without a SWAT team shooting everything up?

LOLZ! Quiet pickup for the dons. SWAT teams for the hoi poloi.

46 posted on 06/22/2011 10:57:50 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Two nights ago Rachel Madcow was making fun of the FBI’s tactics employed in the search for Whitey and his girlfriend. Hah, hag, take that!


47 posted on 06/22/2011 11:04:47 PM PDT by Wallop the Cat
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Authorities probed “Whitey” Bulger sightings in L.A. area in years before arrest

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/authorities-probed-whitey-bulger-sightings-in-la-area-in-years-before-arrest.html


49 posted on 06/22/2011 11:36:25 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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Federal agents search Santa Monica apartment where James “Whitey” Bulger lived: http://t.co/W98vDcR

http://twitter.com/#!/LATimescitydesk


50 posted on 06/22/2011 11:41:51 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: BigCinBigD; No One Special; Lancey Howard; raccoonradio

I’d say he just moved a lot higher in Howie’s death pool. Dead men tell no tales, as Howie often says.


51 posted on 06/23/2011 12:09:58 AM PDT by onona (I stand with SARAH !)
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To: No One Special

Any mention of the political party his brother was in when he ran the Mass. State Senate? :/

I have a funny feeling it doesn’t begin with an ‘R’.


52 posted on 06/23/2011 1:42:46 AM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: kaboom
Obama got Whitey!

BWAAhahahahahah!
53 posted on 06/23/2011 1:49:15 AM PDT by CaptSkip
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To: raccoonradio

Ping the list.


54 posted on 06/23/2011 2:37:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Howie’s heart will be like an archosaur.


55 posted on 06/23/2011 2:40:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: No One Special; raccoonradio
raccoonradio, another thread for you.


56 posted on 06/23/2011 3:42:34 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
Can you imagine how many people in Boston right now have turned an ugly shade of gray thinking about Bulger talking? Oh yeah! All those pinky-ringed members of the hack-o-rama at the State House are getting urgent phone calls about now... In a state where the last 3 House Speakers have been convicted of crimes, and the FBI office was corrupt, anything is possible.

It has been years since I've lived in the Peoples Socialist Republik of Taxachuetts. So you telling me all the hacks and lackies still exist and are still as corrupt?

Everyone is forgetting the Springfield DA what was his name Matty Ryan (?) that used to play Squash with Mobsters at the Springfield Y, I don't know if they ever got anything on that guy....

Unflipin' believable.

57 posted on 06/23/2011 3:57:01 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Diogenesis; Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; Carolinamom; ..

thanks—geez here I am on the lam, I mean, on vacation and it looks like nothing much happening eh? HC list ping.

hc column http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1347460&format=text


58 posted on 06/23/2011 4:01:42 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: nerdwithagun

Oddly enough Billy Bulger, who has no comment, had a bit of a beef with Mike Dukakis I think and set up the Geo HW Bush “harbor tour” (clean harbor, NOT) to help that candidacy instead, 1988


59 posted on 06/23/2011 4:06:13 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: razorback-bert
How did they capture him without a SWAT team shooting everything up?

The SWAT team was busy taking down someone with an overdue student loan.

60 posted on 06/23/2011 4:07:15 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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