There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. The latest campaign to find Whitey Bulger by publicizing info on his girlfriend, Catherine Grieg, seemed like an interesting strategy. Try to imagine the FBI agent trying to sell that idea! Wow! Someone deserves a promotion!
FBI Agents in Santa Monica, CA have captured Boston Fugitive James J. “Whitey” Bulger and his girlfriend Catherine Greig. Apparently Whitey does not have the same cozy relationship with the Los Angeles FBI as he had here in Boston.
Where will this rank on notorious Boston criminal trials? Who will be on the witness list?
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I never thought they’d find him. I wasn’t sure he was still alive.
I’ll admit that I proscribed to the folk hero idealization of Whitey as a good guy who broke a few rules and got done in by the cops until I read about him some more. The guy was a murderous thug and I’m glad he’s getting his. Congrats to the FBI. Yet another bad guy Obama’s Justice Dept. found when Bush couldn’t.
What a surprise. The grossly over funded FBI took time from terrorizing pacifists and others to put the cuffs on their former director of the Boston office. /snark Fifteen years in the making! So now we no longer have to listen to the foolishness of the FBI sweeps through nursing homes, beaches, Germans?
And they didn’t shoot him in the face and bury him at sea. Another surprise. What are the odds he’ll go to trial?
Uh-oh. Now that they can free up countless staff tracking Whitey, will they be reassigned to doing more human rights abuse?
But, first, the media circus!
“I’m tired of living in a police state.” –L. Neil Smith
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By Lynda Gorov, Globe Correspondent and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/06/james-whitey-bulger-lived-rent-controlled-apartment-since-the-records-suggest/QB8QJamrmX5OsVaeA3LpkO/index.html
Bet the Bulger story keeps getting better!
And he has requested a court-appointed attorney as well.
It’s interesting … obviously, the guy had plenty of money, since he reportedly paid his rent in cash every month, and the feds seized hundreds of thousands of dollars from his apartment. Yet, obviously, he no longer has access to that money, nor presumably to the other places he’s stashed ill-gotten gains. So he’s broke, which means the gov’t has to appoint him a lawyer. Maybe the lawyer should be paid out of the seized money, instead of general taxpayer funds? I don’t know.
who loves him, would be willing to get him an attorney.
Christopher needs one, too.
Bulger has money, but it can’t be considered rightfully his. I can’t imagine he has any assets begotten from legit income. That money, at least in my mind, belongs to all of the victims that he stole from and the families of those he murdered.
Yeah, it’s a shame a murderous monster with $800 grand-plus needs the people to pick up his defense tab, but if he gets to spend one more dime of that money, it would essentially be stealing further from his victims.
That’s his, right?
As it turns out, he stole the winning ticket from a “partner” who bought it in one of his South Boston holdings. It’s described in one of the books about Mr. Bulger (I forget which one). There’s another description of at least part of the episode here.
What a scumbag. What a family of scumbags.
The Lottery must have stopped paying when he disappeared, right?
Apparently a lien has been placed on the $800k by the attorney for the people that owned the Southie liquor store before Whitey acquired it.
Perhaps the woman in Iceland who just happened to see the Feds TV ad and called in a tip will kick in some defense money out of her $2 million reward…
the FBI has outdone itself in unbelievable cover stories.
how the woman in Iceland saw the TV ad that was being broadcast in 14 markets around the country, when apparently no one in Santa Monica noticed?
But seriously, whoever helps Bulger out with bail money can go one step further and pay for the attorney.