Posted on 06/22/2011 9:35:14 PM PDT by No One Special
Legendary Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who has been on the run for more than a decade, was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, multiple law enforcement sources told The Times.
Bulger, 81, has been the subject of several books and was the inspiration for "The Departed," a 2006 Martin Scorsese film staring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 as federal agents were about to arrest him in connection with 21 killings, racketeering and other crimes that spanned the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.
He was arrested by the FBI inside a building without incident, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. The details surrounding his arrest were unclear Wednesday night.
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I so hope Bulger spills his guts about everything.
Hallelujah! Anxious to hear the details.
You forgot Al Quaida. The Chicago boys are spreading wide.
Kill “Whitey”?
LOLZ! Quiet pickup for the dons. SWAT teams for the hoi poloi.
Two nights ago Rachel Madcow was making fun of the FBI’s tactics employed in the search for Whitey and his girlfriend. Hah, hag, take that!
Authorities probed “Whitey” Bulger sightings in L.A. area in years before arrest
Federal agents search Santa Monica apartment where James “Whitey” Bulger lived: http://t.co/W98vDcR
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I’d say he just moved a lot higher in Howie’s death pool. Dead men tell no tales, as Howie often says.
Any mention of the political party his brother was in when he ran the Mass. State Senate? :/
I have a funny feeling it doesn’t begin with an ‘R’.
Ping the list.
Howie’s heart will be like an archosaur.
It has been years since I've lived in the Peoples Socialist Republik of Taxachuetts. So you telling me all the hacks and lackies still exist and are still as corrupt?
Everyone is forgetting the Springfield DA what was his name Matty Ryan (?) that used to play Squash with Mobsters at the Springfield Y, I don't know if they ever got anything on that guy....
Unflipin' believable.
thanks—geez here I am on the lam, I mean, on vacation and it looks like nothing much happening eh? HC list ping.
hc column http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1347460&format=text
Oddly enough Billy Bulger, who has no comment, had a bit of a beef with Mike Dukakis I think and set up the Geo HW Bush “harbor tour” (clean harbor, NOT) to help that candidacy instead, 1988
The SWAT team was busy taking down someone with an overdue student loan.
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