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    Bulger belongings could land on auction block

    BOSTON (AP) -- Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger could soon see some of his jewelry, clothes and other belongings on the auction block.

    The U.S. Marshals Service will auction off many of the items seized from Bulger's California apartment after his arrest two years ago, The Boston Globe (http://b.globe.com/1ag2xrF ) reported Saturday. Authorities say the profits will be split among the families of those who were killed by Bulger.

    Federal prosecutors told the newspaper that the items belonging to Bulger and his girlfriend are in storage in Massachusetts and are being appraised.

    Officials believe the highest-value items include a claddagh ring estimated to be worth $48,000 and Bulger's replica 1986 Stanley Cup championship ring valued at about $3,000.

    The 84-year-old Bulger was sentenced Nov. 14 to life in prison. He was found guilty in August by a federal jury in 11 of the 19 killings he was accused of, along with dozens of other gangland crimes, including shakedowns and money laundering.

    Bulger also owned a boxing mannequin topped with a hat that was apparently propped in the window of his apartment to make it look as though there was someone keeping lookout. Other items include binoculars, a telescope, camouflage clothing, nine fedoras, 27 pairs of sunglasses, ceramic poodle salt and pepper shakers, assorted porcelain cats and hundreds of books, many with Bulger's handwritten notes scrawled in the margins. There's also a McCain/Palin campaign button and a God Bless America poster.

    "The reality is there are lots of people who would be willing to pay money for some or all of the contents of that apartment, and that money is going to victims and victims' families. So we want to do what we can to get as much money as we can for them," First Assistant US Attorney Jack Pirozzolo told the newspaper.

    Authorities said they're trying to be sensitive to the victims in the case and have yet to decide whether it is appropriate to cash in on Bulger's notoriety by selling some of the other items, ranging from his blue and white dinnerware to his size 9.5 sneakers.

    Two relatives of Bulger victims backed the effort to get as much money as possible.

    "If they can sell anything he owned down to a ballpoint pen, then good luck to them," said Patricia Donahue, whose husband, Michael Donahue, was shot to death by Bulger in 1982 while giving a ride home to a man who was being targeted. "I'm sure the victims could use the money."

    Jason Wojdylo, chief inspector of the asset forfeiture division of the U.S. Marshals Service, said the U.S. attorney's office will decide what to sell. After the court approves a sale, it usually takes up to 60 days to schedule an auction, he said.

    Bulger fled Boston in 1994 after being tipped off by his former FBI handler that he was about to be indicted, and he remained a fugitive for more than 16 years until he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.

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    Boston Gangster Bulger Transferred to Okla.

    Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was moved to a federal prison in Oklahoma on Monday, although it was not immediately clear why.

    The 84-year-old Bulger was being held at FTC Oklahoma City, according to Chris Burke, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons. The facility is a transfer point and its mission is to house inmates as they are moved between prisons, Burke said. He would not say where Bulger is ultimately headed, citing Bureau of Prisons policy.

    Prosecutors in Tulsa, Okla., have been deciding whether to move forward with a first-degree murder charge against Bulger in the 1981 killing of businessman Roger Wheeler. Bulger was convicted by a federal jury in Boston earlier this year of killing Wheeler and 10 others. He was sentenced to two life terms.

    Last month, Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris told the Tulsa World that prosecutors would take into consideration Bulger's federal sentence as they decide whether to try him.

    Wheeler's daughter, Pam, has said she didn't want Bulger extradited to Tulsa, saying it would be a waste of taxpayer money.

    "It took this long to come to a partial resolution. Just let it end there," she told the Tulsa World in August.

    Federal prosecutors in Boston, the Tulsa district attorney, Bulger's attorneys and Wheeler's son and his attorney did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Spokesmen for the U.S. Marshals Service in Oklahoma City and Tulsa said they had no information on why Bulger was transferred.

    Bulger was moved out of Massachusetts to a federal prison Brooklyn, N.Y., in November.

    A federal judge in Boston last week ordered Bulger to pay $6 million in restitution to Wheeler's family. The mobster previously was ordered to pay $19.5 million in restitution to his other victims' families and forfeit $25 million to the government.

    Investigators found $822,000 in cash stashed in his apartment walls when he was caught in Santa Monica, Calif., after more than 16 years on the run.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/b...-okla-21245112

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    Attorneys for former Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger plan to file appeal Thursday

    BOSTON – Attorneys for former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger say they expect to file an appeal of the convictions that sent him to prison for life.

    The 84-year-old Bulger was convicted last year in a broad racketeering case, including 11 killings and other gangland crimes in the 1970s and 80s.

    The appeal is to be filed Thursday with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bulger's lawyers previously have said he believes he should have been allowed to argue that a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity.

    Bulger headed Boston's Irish mob and was an FBI informant against the rival New England Mafia. His case became an embarrassment for the FBI when it was learned corrupt agents accepted bribes and protected him.

    He was a fugitive for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in California.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/14...o-file-appeal/
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    "Whitey" Bulger transferred to federal prison in Florida

    BOSTON - Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been transferred to a federal prison in central Florida.

    The 85-year-old is serving two life sentences after an August 2013 racketeering conviction tying him to 11 murders and other gangland crimes in the 1970s and '80s.

    Bulger had been incarcerated in Arizona. His attorney Hank Brennan said Thursday he hasn't been told why his client was moved.

    Bulger still faces a Florida murder charge in the 1982 killing of gambling executive John Callahan. Brennan said he hopes the case goes to trial so Bulger will have a fair opportunity to testify.

    "We had nothing to do with the movement of Whitey Bulger," Miami-Dade prosecutor Michael Von Zamft told the Boston Globe. Zamft said the state attorney's office is awaiting the outcome of Bulger's federal appeal before determining whether to bring him to trial on the state murder charge, which carries the death penalty.

    The former crime boss didn't testify at his Boston trial. His lawyers say he believed it was a "sham" because he wasn't allowed to argue that a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity in exchange for protection.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitey-b...on-in-florida/

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    Ex-FBI agent seeks release from Fla. prison during appeal in murder tied to mobster Bulger


    MIAMI – A former FBI agent is seeking release from a Florida prison while an appeals court reconsiders his conviction in a mob-style murder tied to Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

    Attorneys for former agent John Connolly are asking the Florida Supreme Court to free him during the appeal. Connolly has served nearly six years of a 40-year sentence in the 1982 killing of Miami gambling executive John Callahan.

    A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled in May that Connolly's second-degree murder conviction was barred by the statute of limitations because a firearms enhancement was improperly applied. But prosecutors asked the full court to reconsider, and oral arguments are set Feb. 12.

    Although a hit man shot Callahan, testimony showed Connolly fed information to Bulger that led to his killing.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/18...urder-tied-to/
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Catherine Greig


    ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s Girlfriend Faces More Time for Her Silence

    By JENNIFER LEVITZ
    The Wall Street Journal

    BOSTON—The girlfriend of convicted gangster James “Whitey” Bulger could get more prison time for refusing to say who else might have helped the former kingpin during his 16 years on the lam.

    Catherine Greig, midway through an eight-year prison term for harboring Mr. Bulger, is due in federal court here Thursday for sentencing. In February, Ms. Greig pleaded guilty to a criminal contempt charge after refusing to testify to a grand jury about whether others enabled Mr. Bulger.

    He is now 86 and in prison for life in a Florida penitentiary after his 2013 conviction on sprawling federal racketeering charges that included involvement in 11 murders.

    The government has long thought Mr. Bulger had allies who helped him elude capture and squirrel away assets. Lawyers for Mr. Bulger said during the trial that he made millions of dollars running a criminal enterprise in Boston, although he didn’t admit to murder.

    “Her refusal to testify has hindered the FBI’s efforts to seek justice for the victims of his crimes,” a Federal Bureau of Investigation official said when the government indicted Ms. Greig for contempt.

    Ms. Greig, 65, has nothing to tell, according to her identical twin, Margaret McCusker, who still lives in “Southie,” the South Boston neighborhood where Mr. Bulger once ruled an underworld.

    “Listen, this is an old gangster,” Ms. McCusker said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, referring to Mr. Bulger. “They do not tell the women in their lives anything. Young gangsters—they go home and tell their girlfriends everything. That’s why they get caught.”

    Mr. Bulger allegedly fled Boston after his former FBI handler tipped him off in 1994 to a pending indictment; the former FBI handler later served 10 years in prison for warning Mr. Bulger. Prosecutors say Mr. Bulger was a federal informant, although his lawyers denied this at his trial, calling it “the worst thing that an Irish person” could do.

    Ms. Greig, a former dental hygienist, followed him underground. Prosecutors never implicated her in his crimes but indicted her in 1997 for harboring Mr. Bulger.

    She also turned out to be the key to finding Mr. Bulger, who was on FBI’s most-wanted list.

    Authorities captured the duo in in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011 on a tip from a former neighbor after the FBI started a TV campaign focused on Ms. Greig. Photos from the early 1990s depicted the blonde Ms. Greig walking a fluffy black dog with Mr. Bulger, described as possessing a “violent temper.” She likely was carrying on a routine, getting her hair done and visiting the dentist, said the public-service announcements.

    When captured, the couple was living under the pseudonyms of Charlie and Carol Gasko in an apartment with $822,000 stashed in a wall.

    Ms. Greig pleaded guilty in March 2012 to harboring a fugitive and is now in custody in Rhode Island. The government indicted Ms. Greig this past September for refusing to tell a grand jury about other possible helpers.

    Prosecutors want to track down anyone else who may be criminally liable for harboring Mr. Bulger, and also to find any assets, possibly for restitution for victims, said Michael Kendall, a former federal prosecutor who is now a defense lawyer in Boston.

    “It’s generally believed he had millions of dollars of illegal proceeds stashed away,” Mr. Kendall said.

    Mr. Bulger’s lawyer, Hank Brennan, said the government’s “claims that there are other unknown people who helped Bulger when he was a fugitive are not supported by one single fact.”

    At Ms. Greig’s sentencing Thursday, the judge has wide discretion because there is no maximum penalty on the contempt charge. In a filing Friday, Ms. Greig’s lawyer asked for leniency, arguing in part that Ms. Greig kept Mr. Bulger “docile, happy and avoiding” violence during their time as fugitives.

    The lawyer recommended one year, with credit for time served to that six months would be added to her present sentence. Prosecutors are asking for 37 months, saying in a Monday filing that Ms. Greig “remains unrepentant for her obstruction.”

    Ms. Greig’s twin, Ms. McCusker, wrote the judge in an April letter that her sister is refusing to testify because she mistrusts the government. She argued that her sister is being treated more harshly than other women who’ve fallen for crime bosses. “In New York, mafia wives have their own reality-TV shows,” she wrote.

    In the interview with the Journal, Ms. McCusker said she delivers messages between Mr. Bulger, whom she calls “Jimmy,” and her sister, since they aren’t currently allowed to write to each other. Ms. Greig remains loyal and “still doesn’t believe half of what they say” about Mr. Bulger, Ms. McCusker said.

    “Over the top love. She loves him to death,” she said.

    “The fact that someone wants to make out like this is a TV soap opera love story is absurd,” said Mr. Kendall, the former federal prosecutor. “This guy is a serial murderer and the idea that somehow she gets to protect his last few interests is absurd.”

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/whitey-b...nce-1461682401

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    Whitey’s FBI handler John Connolly seeks parole on murder rap

    By Laurel J. Sweet
    The Boston Herald

    Former Boston FBI agent John “Zip” Connolly has already had one interview in support of his improbable bid for parole from a 40-year state prison sentence for murder, the Florida Commission on Offender Review confirms.

    Commission spokeswoman Kelly Corder said the recent preliminary talk will now be followed by the scheduling of a hearing to establish a “presumptive parole release date” and a follow-up interview for Connolly, 76.

    But he would still have many obstacles to clear before the commission voted either to grant parole, extend his presumptive release date or put him on indefinite suspension status, including a separate “Request for Review” hearing at which opponents of his release could voice their concerns.

    Inmates in Florida who committed felony murder prior to May 25, 1994, are eligible for parole, according to the FCOR, which states parole “is considered an act of grace, not a right, and shall not be done as reward for current behavior.”

    Attorneys for Connolly, including Craig Trocino, director of the Innocence Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law, have meanwhile filed a motion in 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Miami to vacate his sentence. A hearing is scheduled for April 21 before Judge Yvonne Colodny.

    Connolly was the storied handler of mob informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi. He was convicted in Miami in 2008 of tipping off the South Boston serial killers in 1982 that John Callahan, an accountant and close friend of hitman John Martorano, could implicate their crew for the 1981 execution of World Jai Alai president Roger Wheeler in Oklahoma. Wheeler was killed while investigating Callahan for theft.

    Martorano would later testify he lured Callahan to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., under the pretense of a visit, picked him up at the airport in a van lined with plastic sheets, and shot him in the head. Callahan’s body was found in the trunk of a Cadillac parked at Miami International Airport.

    The Herald reported yesterday that Callahan’s 77-year-old widow Mary believes Connolly “hasn’t done enough time” to be considered for early release.

    Connolly, formerly of Lynnfield, has navigated the normal appellate channels without success. Last year, the Florida Supreme Court refused to take up his most recent petition.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/loc..._on_murder_rap

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    Some news sites are saying that Bulger was murdered in a Federal Corrections Facility in West Virginia.

    No official statement has been made yet so I'll hold off on posting.

    https://twitter.com/KNX1070/status/1057310227056386049

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    If the prison is a federal penitentiary, this could be a death penalty case. Plus Bulger was an old, frail, man, so the murderer can't use the "defense-killing" excuse.
    Last edited by Mastro Titta; 10-30-2018 at 12:27 PM.

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    Why would the govt waste time and money on someone who did them a Favor and whacked this gangster trash? Unless he is someone in jail for something much much worse.

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