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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter of a Century
CSPAN.BookTV ^ | March 25, 2006 | Howie Carr

Posted on 03/25/2006 5:09:59 PM PST by billorites

Howie Carr talks about the criminal alliance between brothers William Billy Bulger and James Whitey Bulger. Mr. Carr explains their impact on the the political and crime worlds in Boston for the last quarter of the 20th Century. James Bulger, who ran an organized crime organization in South Boston, remains the number 2 man on the FBI's most wanted list. William Bulger, a politician who rose to the rank of president of the Massachusetts State Senate and was later appointed president of the University of Massachusetts, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2003 (in connection with an investigation into the activities of his brother).

Author Bio: Howie Carr, a columnist for the Boston Herald, is the host of the Howie Carr radio show. For more information on Mr. Carr and his work, visit howiecarr.com.

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KEYWORDS: bookreview; boston; bulger; carr; whiteybulger
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This is a fun story and not just a local Massachusett's story.

The FBI was so horribly in the tank for these crooks that it cannot be over looked.

Want to piss on Massachusetts?

This thread's for you.

Howie's on C-SPAN2 right now and he's a hoot.

1 posted on 03/25/2006 5:10:02 PM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

Do you know who I am? howie! howie! it's from the tabloid talk shows in boston.


2 posted on 03/25/2006 5:12:27 PM PST by pipecorp (Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims never stopped. a 2010 useless reply odyssey.)
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To: billorites
Want to piss on Massachusetts?

witchhunts...fells acres...barney frank...chappaquiddick....mayor curley...the vineyard and boston's second album...where does one begin?

3 posted on 03/25/2006 5:14:46 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (blah)
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To: the invisib1e hand; 2Jedismom; PhiKapMom; Honeybunch
Don't know where one begins, but one would eventually get around to the mob-style assassination of the head of Telex in Tulsa, OK, in the early 80's. It happened in the parking lot of the local country club, and was done with a silenced .22 pistol.

This is where the news broke that the FBI had been compromised by the mob, IIRC.

4 posted on 03/25/2006 5:17:56 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: billorites
I saw Howie at one of his book signings a week or two ago and told him how proud my Dad was of having grown up in Southie and how appalled he would have been to hear all this stuff.

Howie's response was that many sons and daughters of Southie are appalled.

5 posted on 03/25/2006 5:19:25 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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How did they do it?

They did it with the active assistance of the FBI, that's how.

L

6 posted on 03/25/2006 5:19:53 PM PST by Lurker (I trust in God. Everyone else shows me their hands.)
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To: OKSooner
People can probably watch live Here.
7 posted on 03/25/2006 5:21:24 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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This is where the news broke that the FBI had been compromised by the mob, IIRC.

Oh, that's right -- the article was about organized crime, and I forgot to mention the Kennedy's. I am remiss. I got carried away with the idea of "pissing on Massachusetts."

8 posted on 03/25/2006 5:22:59 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (blah)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Boston's third album, the Big Dig, Mass Pike tolls, real estate prices, Drunken Teddy, Kept Man Kerry, The Fleet Center, Cambridge, Harvard, Blowgan airport, crappy roads, cold weather, LIBERALS, James Taylor....


9 posted on 03/25/2006 5:24:24 PM PST by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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.... real estate prices...

Hey,real estate prices are good for some,bad for others. There are lots of folks around here who bought fairly modest houses 10-15 years ago who now could,thanks to price appreciation,sell and then be able to afford a 10 bedroom mansion in North Carolina,Georgia or Texas.

10 posted on 03/25/2006 5:30:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative

The Boston Glob, Boston Magazine, Dunkin Donuts coffee, Newton public schools' liberal agenda, Mikey Dukakis, Derrick Z. Jackson, the Celtics, the Bruins, Bernard Law, Kiss 108....


11 posted on 03/25/2006 5:37:12 PM PST by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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To: misterrob
the whole molesting priest thing...I know it's not unique to Mass, but on the other hand, it is very massachusetts.
12 posted on 03/25/2006 5:40:19 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (blah)
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To: misterrob

that freakin accent!


13 posted on 03/25/2006 5:40:43 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (blah)
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To: misterrob

that freakin accent!


14 posted on 03/25/2006 5:41:24 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (blah)
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To: billorites

I'm not sure about that conviction of Wm. Bulger.


15 posted on 03/25/2006 5:45:08 PM PST by Bret
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To: the invisib1e hand

provincial politics, Boston Public Schools, The Bourne and Sagamore Bridges, The Boston Herald, the Boston Phoenix, the god damned "attitude" up there, the drivers, the racism, the gun laws.....


16 posted on 03/25/2006 5:46:24 PM PST by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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To: misterrob

You're jealous because we have the best darn clam chowder on the planet.


17 posted on 03/25/2006 5:51:35 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative

I lived there for 33 years.


18 posted on 03/25/2006 5:54:43 PM PST by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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To: the invisib1e hand
"witchhunts...fells acres...barney frank...chappaquiddick....mayor curley...the vineyard and boston's second album...where does one begin?"

Yeah, well we got the swan boats.
Screw that other stuff.


19 posted on 03/25/2006 6:23:22 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites
I worked in Southie in the mid to late 1980's. I saw the scum of the Earth including Whitey and his boy Kevin Weeks doing their thing. Money to kill people over Northern Ireland was one of their scams.

Born and raised in Boston, son of an Irishman, I can now say from the Mid-West that I could never, ever live in Boston again. I am ashamed that the Irish are proud of their lives in places supporting lowlives like the criminals in Boston, and that one of the reasons I am no longer Catholic has a lot to do with this whole situation. The Church pretends nothing bad happens as long as the cash flows in.

20 posted on 03/25/2006 7:00:12 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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