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Kevin Weeks didn’t have the stones to shoot me. That’s what I told Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes.” And for the record, I don’t believe any of the stuff he told Bradley about my alleged near-murder. You watch Sunday night and tell me who you believe. So his serial-killing boss Whitey Bulger hated me. This is news? Whitey wanted to murder me. Stop the presses. There’s an old saying: Never send a boy on a man’s errand, and that’s what Kevin was, a boy. He played Robin to Whitey’s Batman. There was a reason, after all, that his nickname was...

First of three parts It was Dec. 23, 1994, the day that Whitey Bulger vanished. He had always assumed it would come to this, so in 1977 he began constructing a new identity for himself. The most powerful organized crime figure in New England was about to turn into “Thomas F. Baxter.” When the cops got around to searching his condo, and his girlfriends’ houses, they would find how-to books about living on the lam. There were almost as many of them as there were World War II books and videotapes. Whitey was into Nazis, so much so that in...

Already ordered my copy of Howie Carr's book "The Brothers Bulger" but wanted to mention that excerpts from the book will appear starting tomorrow (Feb 17) in the Boston Herald. (Can read online at bostonherald.com) Two brothers, one a murdering gangster and one a Mass. State Senate President profiled on "60 Minutes". "With political corruption on one side and deadly force on the other, the Bulgers shared a diabolic and destructive alliance for decades."