Posted on 06/24/2011 2:55:28 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
BOSTON (AP) - After 16 long years, the arrest of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger appeared to end a long, frustrating manhunt that had embarrassed the FBI and raised questions about its efforts to find one of its most wanted fugitives.
But Bulger's capture could be only the beginning of a new scandal for the Boston FBI and others.
If Bulger decides to cut a deal with prosecutors, he could implicate an untold number of local, state and federal law enforcement officials, according to investigators who built a racketeering indictment against Bulger before he fled in 1995.
"If he starts to talk, there will be some unwelcome accountability on the part of a lot of people inside law enforcement," said retired Massachusetts state police Maj. Tom Duffy. "Let me put it this way: I wouldn't want my pension contingent on what he will say at this point."
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxboston.com ...
"Whitey was no fool. He knew he would get caught. I think he'll have more fun pulling all those skeletons out of the closet," MacKenzie said.
Now we know why Whitey was smiling in his post-arrest photos.
This assumes it will get that far...
The guy is over 80 years old. Are they going to plea bargain the sentence from life in prison down to 20 years in prison?
Exactly. Best...trial...ever.
There are a LOT of people shaking. Keep in mind that most of the corrupt FBI agents in Boston at the time are now dead except for Connelly and he’s rotting in jail.
Hey, the guys near the end of the road. What’s he got to loose? Might as well go out taking a few crooked cops, agents and other lowlifes down as well.
Fifteen years hiding in plain sight, in Santa Monica — a well-known destination for Irish and Irish-Americans, a few miles west of the Federal Building and one of the biggest FBI offices in the U.S.....yeah.......
“He was literally living four streets over from the offices of GK Films which produced “The Departed,” “The Town” and is now working on this Winter Hill project,”
Now, if I were 81-years-old and the police were interrogating me, I think I'd have Alzheimer's too. Maybe he does. Maybe he doesn't.
I think that maybe very little juicy stuff will come out.
Can’t believe the arrogance of Whitey, saying he could afford an attorney if they would give “HIS” money back, the $80,000 they found in his apartment.
$800K, they said. That’s a lotta rent money.
He won’t be talking, she’ll be singing!
Yeah, it could get ugly.
If Bulger decides to cut a deal with prosecutors, he could implicate an untold number of local, state and federal law enforcement officials, according to investigators who built a racketeering indictment against Bulger before he fled in 1995.He has good reason to want the Witness Protection Program, anyway. :')
I stand corrected $800k, and his brother Billy Bulger was in the courtroom, a guy who was Mass Senate President for 18 years during Whitey's reign of terror and then President of UMASS. The arrogance of Whitey pleading that his family can't afford a lawyer is unprecedented. Oh, check that, it's right up there with the Kennedy's.
Um, yeah - he just forgot the neck brace! But apparently he’s got the dementia card.
You don't know how it works...They can do him a lot of favors in the joint, make life a bit easier, more comfortable...If ya know what I mean.
Exactly. He will have an accident in the prison shower soon.
Actually it was $820,000. And this doesn’t count all the safe deposit boxes all over the country/world. And there’s the possibility that the Iceland tipster is connected to Whitey since supposedly America’s Most Wanted had repeated tips of sightings of Whitey in Santa Monica over the last ten years and wonder of wonders, the FBI couldn’t or wouldn’t arrest him. Maybe Ms. Greig will turn out to be the tipster and not only collect the two million for Whitey, but the quarter million for herself.
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