We all have ideas about criminal activities in the decades of the fifties, sixties and seventies. We have read news stories, books, and seen great movies depicting the times and activities. I believed in the reports and books that I read until I began to dig deeper. As I dug, I discovered huge falsehoods. I…
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Boston Gang Wars: The FBI and the Mafia
The word around Boston among the Mafia was that the FBI wanted to protect the Irish so the FBI could go after the Mafia. The FBI did go after the Mafia rather than the Irish. The FBI pursued the Mafia because of one reason: the Mafia embarrassed its leader J. Edgar Hoover. For many years…
The Gustin Gang Meets the Mafia
Around noon on a bleak December 22, 1931, Gustin leader, Frank Wallace , his henchman Bernard “Dodo” Walsh and Tim Coffey went to 317 Hanover Street in the North End for a meeting. They climbed the stairs to the third floor in a building known as the Testa Building to the offices of the C.F….
Background to Boston Gang Wars: Getting to the Truth
Two major difficulties exist in trying to recapture the true past among gangsters: 1) gangsters act in secret and 2) they are inveterate liars. Kevin Weeks, who became the third member of Whitey Bulger’s gang, described the need for secrecy well when he said: “the idea of committing a crime is getting away with it.”…
My Name Is Bulger – The Documentary – Matt’s Take On it
Airing on Discovery Plus is a new documentary on Whitey Bulger and his brother, former Senate President, Bill Bulger, My Name is Bulger. The following is a post Matt had in progress: I thought the documentary was excellent in establishing what it set out to do: show that Bill Bulger’s actions during his public life…
Happy Thanksgiving
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