One person who has done quite well from the explosion of small time hoodlum Whitey into the person who has “terrorized the City of Boston for decades” is talk show host and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr. I happened to have come into the vicinity of him over the summer. I can’t say he’s a…
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Billy Bulger Thrust Into A Talk On Whitey
Last Wednesday down the Cape I spoke to a group at a library on the subject of Whitey Bulger. My talk lasted about 2 hours including the time for questioning. It went well, I was told. No one left before it ended and the questions were challenging and interesting. I used power point for the first…
Terrorist He Ain’t: The Fat Lady Has Not Yet Even Upstanded.
“The sentencing ends a sordid chapter in Boston history featuring FBI and government corruption that helped Bulger continue a reign of terror for decades and flee the city just ahead of an indictment” thus wrote Time magazine, November 15. The words “sordid chapter in Boston history” and “continue his reign of terror for decades” were also…
The Day After Whitey’s Sentencing: Discovering the Sham
WBUR reported yesterday: “J.W. Carney Jr., one of Bulger’s lawyers, said Bulger was “pleased that he held to his principles” by staying silent and refusing to participate in the sentencing. Bulger’s lawyers said he believes his trial was a “sham” because he was not allowed to argue that a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity to…
Good Bye To Southie: Back to Oskaloo
Whitey finally wrote the true book about his life. I’m not talking about the soon to be published book written by one of his relatives which will be more a diatribe than the truth. I’m talking about the one which comes out from a person’s behavior; the one we see which is summed up by…
The Families of Some of Whitey’s Victims Speak: Sadly Some Spoke Shamefully
Fortunately, the majority of those who spoke today comported themselves with dignity. Mrs Patricia Donahue, who has maintained the high road throughout the trial and who perhaps suffered the most by Whitey’s actions utilized her time on the stand properly telling us of her husband, Michael Donahue, “I want him to be remembered for the wonderful man he was. He…