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Notorious mob boss Whitey Bulger found dead in prison
nbcnews.com ^ | October 30, 2018 | Pete Williams, Tom Winter and Rich Schapiro

Posted on 10/30/2018 10:00:21 AM PDT by rdl6989

Notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead at a federal prison in West Virginia Tuesday, federal officials said.

Bulger, 89, had recently arrived at the high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia, according to the Boston Herald.

The feared former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, Bulger was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 murders stretching from Massachusetts to Florida to Oklahoma.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: boston; bulger; canary; florida; inmates; jamesbulger; mafia; massachusetts; mobsters; mueller; oklahoma; transfer; usphazelton; vendetta; westvirginia; whiteybulger
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To: jyo19

True, but he did do time at both Alcatraz and Leavenworth.


41 posted on 10/30/2018 10:17:35 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: advance_copy; Gen.Blather

Gen.Blather said the same thing, in essence.

And it makes plenty of sense.

It is still a mind blowing realization and I just gave up drinking!!

Good thing I didn’t throw away the bottles :)


42 posted on 10/30/2018 10:17:52 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Daffynition; Tzaphon
Bulger, 89, had recently arrived at the high-security penitentiary...

People should know that when they accept promises of safety and security, the odds of sudden destruction go right through the roof.

43 posted on 10/30/2018 10:20:17 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: rdl6989

44 posted on 10/30/2018 10:21:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Southack
"Let’s keep in mind that Mueller kept 4 innocent men in prison to protect his secret source: White Bulger."

Ergo Howie Carr's lower that eel droppings opinion of the HeFBeeEye, oh man is he brutal when it comes to speaking about them.

45 posted on 10/30/2018 10:21:45 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: Kickass Conservative

“He was Murdered inside a Club Fed Prison?

Let me guess, he was hit in the Head with a Croquet Mallet.”

During my gov’t career I did a lot of work in Bureau of Prisons facilities. There was a case at FCI Oxford (Wisconsin) of an inmate doing in a corrections officer with a fire extinguisher to the head.

https://www.bop.gov/about/history/hero_spikerman.jsp


46 posted on 10/30/2018 10:22:20 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rdl6989

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I guess that puts an end to any deathbead confession of his long work with the FBLIE.


47 posted on 10/30/2018 10:22:23 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Just Googled it. There is a connection. Many hits on the subject, including info from Sara Carter and Alan Dershowitz. Maybe Mueller defended him...? Didn’t read all the info.


48 posted on 10/30/2018 10:24:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Bonemaker

Uh, okay.

You do realize that I was being facetious, right?

My S-I-L works in a Prison full of Illegal Invader Gang Members who killed a Guard by throwing him off a Roof during a Riot.

I have no idea what it has to do with my OP, but there you go.


49 posted on 10/30/2018 10:28:11 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: rdl6989

And that’s funny, how?

Like, clown funny? Like he was some kinda clown?


50 posted on 10/30/2018 10:30:33 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: rdl6989
p38

He fell.

Happens to old people you know.

51 posted on 10/30/2018 10:31:15 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Gen.Blather

“When you were one year old Christmas took your entire lifetime to arrive. When you were two it took half as long to arrive. At 80 it seems like ever ten minutes is breakfast.”

No kidding...seemed forever to hit 16 and driving then 21 for drinking and driving! Later, no more drinking and driving.


52 posted on 10/30/2018 10:32:27 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rdl6989

Many years ago, when I was writing and editing books, I was approached, through an intermediary, by a fellow who has been in then Winter Hill gang in Boston, then in witness protection program to help him write an “as told by” book about Whitey Bulger. He said he knew where Whitey was at the time and nobody else did. Crooked FBI guy involved too.

I called two agents I knew, thinking it was an opportunity to make some $$$, but they both said NO. My NY agent said I’d be killed. I lived in the country at the time and she said the FBI would shoot me over the back fence and Whitey’s friends would shoot me over the front fence.

Excellent advice. Whitey was in Santa Monica, as it turned out, and was still “doing his own killing.”

Don’t know what happened to the young gangster who contacted me. I actually liked him a lot.....


53 posted on 10/30/2018 10:33:33 AM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: rdl6989

Hmmm, must have been a mob hit for his testimony.................


54 posted on 10/30/2018 10:37:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Mueller had something to do with letting Bukger stay free for a very long time as he was a source for the FBI for other murderers. I am sure that NBC is right on reporting that connection /s


55 posted on 10/30/2018 10:37:37 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: rdl6989

No point in killing Whitey for revenge at age 89. Plenty of point in killing him for what he might say.


56 posted on 10/30/2018 10:39:16 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Ezekiel
Is this the same guy who walked around NYC in his PJs?

Or the one implicated in the museum heist? I get them all confuddled.

57 posted on 10/30/2018 10:39:18 AM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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To: Kickass Conservative

“You do realize that I was being facetious, right?”

But of course I do. I also know of a case where an inmate fashioned an eventually lethal shank out of a paper mache wad of toilet paper. Then there was a 25 acp smuggled in via a rectum. The stories go on and on.


58 posted on 10/30/2018 10:40:00 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jyo19

Whitey spent his California years in Santa Monica, not Malibu.


59 posted on 10/30/2018 10:43:22 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Red Badger; Pelham

Spilt guineas is my guess

Long memories


60 posted on 10/30/2018 10:43:58 AM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it wonÂ’t matter what you were)
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