On December 23,1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him.
91 Facts About Whitey Bulger
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Whitey Bulger provided information about the inner workings of the Patriarca crime family, his Italian-American Mafia rivals based in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island.
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Whitey Bulger became a fugitive in 1994 and was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1999, and was considered the most wanted person on the list behind Osama bin Laden.
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Whitey Bulger was apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, on June 22,2011.
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Whitey Bulger was tried on thirty-two counts of racketeering, money laundering, extortion and weapons charges, including complicity in nineteen murders.
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Whitey Bulger was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida.
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Whitey Bulger was transferred to several facilities in October 2018; first to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma and then to the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, near Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.
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Whitey Bulger, who was in a wheelchair, was beaten to death by inmates on October 30,2018, within hours of his arrival at Hazelton.
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Whitey Bulger's father worked as a union laborer and occasional longshoreman; he lost his arm in an industrial accident and the family was reduced to poverty.
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The Whitey Bulger family moved in and the children grew up there.
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Whitey Bulger developed a reputation as a thief and street fighter fiercely loyal to South Boston.
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In 1943,14-year-old Whitey Bulger was arrested and charged with larceny.
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Whitey Bulger was sentenced to a juvenile reformatory for these offenses.
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Shortly after his release in April 1948, Whitey Bulger joined the United States Air Force where he trained as a mechanic.
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Whitey Bulger had earned his high school diploma during his military service but he had not reformed.
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Whitey Bulger spent time in the military prison for several assaults and was later arrested by Air Force police in 1950 for going absent without leave.
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In 1956, Whitey Bulger served his first term in federal prison at Atlanta Penitentiary for armed robbery and truck hijacking.
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Whitey Bulger later told mobster Kevin Weeks that while there, he was used as a human subject in the CIA-sponsored MK-ULTRA program.
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Whitey Bulger later complained that the inmates had been "recruited by deception" and were told they were helping to find "a cure for schizophrenia", when in fact they were being used to research mind control.
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In 1959, Whitey Bulger was briefly transferred to maximum security at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in California.
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Whitey Bulger completed various correspondence courses including typing, bookkeeping, and business law.
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Whitey Bulger became a voracious reader devouring numerous books on poetry, politics, and military history.
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However, Whitey Bulger instead executed McGonagle's law-abiding brother Donald in a case of mistaken identity.
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Whitey Bulger, realizing he was on the losing side, secretly approached Howie Winter, the leader of the Winter Hill Gang, and claimed he could end the war by murdering the Killeen leadership.
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Whitey Bulger then used black spray paint to scrawl "Bus Teddy" on the sidewalk outside of the national historic site.
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In 1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation approached Whitey Bulger and attempted to recruit him as an informant as part of their effort against the Patriarca crime family.
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Three years later, Whitey Bulger partnered with Flemmi, an Italian-American mobster who had been an FBI informant since 1965.
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Coffey stated that since Whitey Bulger was accused of "leading a criminal enterprise" while working as an informant and was now a fugitive, he had "forfeited any reasonable expectation" that his identity would be protected.
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In 1980, Whitey Bulger was approached in Triple O's by Louis Litif, a Lebanese-American neighborhood bookmaker.
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Litif had been stealing money from his partners in the bookmaking operation and using the money to traffic cocaine, and had not only refused to pay Whitey Bulger a cut of his drug profits but committed two murders without Whitey Bulger's permission.
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Litif told an outraged Whitey Bulger he was going to kill his partner, "Joe the Barber", whom he accused of stealing from the bookmaking operation.
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Whitey Bulger refused to sanction this, but Litif vowed to proceed.
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Whitey Bulger had been stabbed with an ice pick and shot.
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Whitey Bulger quietly served a long prison sentence and refused to admit to having paid protection money to Bulger, Flemmi and Weeks.
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Whitey Bulger was annoyed when he learned that the IRA members he supplied had burned the van that contained the weapons.
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Whitey Bulger then killed McIntyre and went upstairs to take a nap while Weeks and Flemmi removed the corpse's teeth with a pair of pliers and buried it in the basement.
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Whitey Bulger was widely thought to have obtained his share of the jackpot illegitimately.
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Whitey Bulger had established a whole other person, Thomas Baxter, with a complete ID and credit cards in that name.
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Whitey Bulger had even joined associations in Baxter's name, building an entire portfolio for the guy.
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Whitey Bulger had always said you had to be ready to take off on short notice.
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Whitey Bulger had set up safe deposit boxes containing cash, jewelry and passports in locations across North America and Europe, including Florida, Oklahoma, Montreal, Dublin, London, Birmingham and Venice.
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On January 5,1995, Whitey Bulger prepared to return to Boston, believing that it had been a false alarm.
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Weeks immediately passed the information on to Whitey Bulger, who altered his plans.
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Whitey Bulger then drove to Boston and dropped off Stanley in a parking lot.
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Whitey Bulger met with Weeks at Malibu Beach in Dorchester, where Weeks brought Whitey Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
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Whitey Bulger reminisced fondly about his time hiding out with a family in Louisiana.
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In mid-November 1995, Weeks and Whitey Bulger met for the last time at the lion statues at the front of the New York Public Library Main Branch and adjourned for dinner at a nearby restaurant.
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Whitey Bulger's tone was a little more serious, and there wasn't as much joking as usual.
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Whitey Bulger repeated the phrase he had used before that a rolling stone gathers no moss, which told me that he knew he was going to be on the move again.
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In pursuit of Whitey Bulger, a known book lover, the FBI visited bookstores in the area, questioned employees and distributed wanted posters.
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Whitey Bulger was 81 years old at the time of the arrest.
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Whitey Bulger was captured as a result of the work of the Whitey Bulger Fugitive Task Force, which consisted of FBI agents and a Deputy US Marshal.
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Whitey Bulger had the means and kept a low profile.
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Whitey Bulger had been featured on the television show America's Most Wanted sixteen times, first in 1995, and finally on October 2,2010.
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Authorities received a tip from a woman in Iceland that Whitey Bulger was living in an apartment near a beach in Santa Monica.
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Whitey Bulger was charged with murder, "conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, narcotics distribution and money-laundering".
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In Oklahoma, where Whitey Bulger is alleged to have ordered the killing of businessman Roger Wheeler Sr.
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Immediately after being brought back to Boston, Whitey Bulger began talking to authorities.
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Whitey Bulger said that during his days as a fugitive he often went back and forth across the border to Mexico to buy medicine for his heart disease.
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Whitey Bulger was arraigned in federal court on July 6,2011.
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Whitey Bulger pleaded not guilty to 48 charges, including 19 counts of murder, extortion, money laundering, obstruction of justice, perjury, narcotics distribution and weapons violations.
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Whitey Bulger was from a family that led the Mullen Gang and was injured during a mob gunfight in 1969.
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Greig's younger brother David, a close associate of Whitey Bulger, was found shot dead on Cape Cod in an apparent suicide.
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Whitey Bulger was represented in the criminal proceedings by the prominent criminal attorney Kevin Reddington of Brockton, Massachusetts.
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In September 2015, Greig was indicted on a charge of criminal contempt stemming from her refusal to testify before a grand jury about whether other people aided Whitey Bulger while he was a fugitive.
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Whitey Bulger has been living quietly in South Boston with her twin sister Margaret McCusker.
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When Whitey Bulger arrived at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson there were other famous inmates there, including Brian David Mitchell, Steven Dale Green and Montoya Sanchez.
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Whether Whitey Bulger was targeted randomly or deliberately is not known.
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Whitey Bulger was able to begin taking part in counseling with a prison psychologist at the Tucson facility.
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Whitey Bulger's counseling was terminated, and he was transferred to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida.
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At Coleman, Whitey Bulger started experiencing night terrors, which he attributed to the experiments he had taken part in while incarcerated in the 1950s, where he had been administered LSD.
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Whitey Bulger, who started his imprisonment with a rigorous exercise regime, was by this point using a wheelchair.
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On June 12,2013, Bulger went on trial in South Boston's John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse before Judge Denise J Casper on 32 counts of racketeering and firearms possession.
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The racketeering counts included allegations that Whitey Bulger was complicit in 19 murders.
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The jury acquitted Whitey Bulger of killing Michael Milano, Al Plummer, William O'Brien, James O'Toole, Al Notorangeli, James Sousa and Francis Leonard.
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On November 14,2013, Whitey Bulger was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, plus five years.
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Whitey Bulger was indicted in Florida for the murder of Callahan and in Oklahoma for the murder of Roger Wheeler, and could have received the death penalty in those states.
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In September 2014, Whitey Bulger entered the Coleman II United States Penitentiary in Sumterville, Florida.
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Whitey Bulger's health declined due to a lack of exercise.
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Whitey Bulger was transferred from the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City to United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, in West Virginia on October 29,2018.
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Whitey Bulger was in a wheelchair and had been beaten to death by multiple inmates armed with a sock-wrapped padlock and a shiv.
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Whitey Bulger's eyes had nearly been gouged out and his tongue almost cut off; a law enforcement official described Bulger as "unrecognizable".
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Whitey Bulger is buried at St Joseph's Cemetery in the Boston neighborhood of West Roxbury under the Whitey Bulger family headstone inscribed with the names of his parents.
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William Whitey Bulger served in the military during the Korean War but was never posted to Korea.
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Whitey Bulger was formerly an influential leader of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts.
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In December 2002, William Whitey Bulger appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and refused to testify, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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John "Jackie" Whitey Bulger, a retired Massachusetts court clerk magistrate, was convicted in April 2003 of committing perjury in front of two grand juries regarding sworn statements he gave concerning contacts with his fugitive brother.
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Whitey Bulger fathered one child, Douglas Glenn Cyr, during a 12-year relationship with Lindsey Cyr, a waitress and former fashion model living in North Weymouth, Massachusetts.
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Whitey Bulger bought her an expensive house in suburban Quincy, Massachusetts, and acted as father to her children while commuting to "work" in South Boston.
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Whitey Bulger was issued a pistol permit within 24 hours.
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Whitey Bulger wanted another opportunity to "finish the job," but Bulger advised him to forget about Howie Carr.