Notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead at a federal prison in West Virginia Tuesday, federal officials said.
Bulger, 89, had recently arrived at the high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia, according to the Boston Herald.
Continue reading Did somebody whack Whitey Bulger? (Yeah, NBC says he’s dead.)
I never thought that they would. I figured that he was dead, or something. But they caught him, in… Santa Monica. There’s going to be a lot of people out there unhappy about this, let me tell you.
…Damn. If only my dad was alive to see this*. Not that he had anything particularly against Whitey Bulger (except in a theoretical sense), but as a fellow Bostoner the man was always of interest to him.
Via @andylevy.
Moe Lane
*Mostly so that he could tell me “I told you so.” Now I have to wait for it.
