The Thirty Years of Whitey Bulger’s life I’ve broken into four parts. I’m doing this for the purpose of trying to determine for myself if Whitey is the worst of the worst criminals or has been given that identity by people who have ulterior motives in elevating him to a status far beyond what he…
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This is all about Whitey. These will be the posts that relate specifically to him.
Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: A Look At His Early Criminal Life And Those Times: Part 3
How bad is Whitey? When he’s arrested for the three bank robberies, the Boston Globe on March 5, 1956, noted Bulger first came to the attention of authorities in 1948 when he was arrested in Southie for an attempted criminal assault. What happened after that is pretty easy to understand if you knew how things operated…
Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: Are We Being Snookered By Others? Part 2
The little lie about Whitey being an informant adds to the picture of his evilness. Not content with fabricating this conclusion, the media then reached out for another gangster to tell him Whitey informed against him back in the Fifties. The method of doing this was eye-opening. But what tipped the scale was the scurrilous…
Murderman Martorano’s Hearsay Evidence About Whitey Bulger Falls Apart Under Close Scrutiny
My friend Brendan B used to say to me: “I was born at night but not last night.” In going along willy-nilly with some of the testimony I’ve heard without properly considering it sometimes I think I was born last night. Here’s one thing I was bothered by after writing about Murderman Martorano and recalling…
The Whitey Bulger Balloon: Has Whitey’s Reputation Been Blown Up Far Beyond Actuality?
A comment section is good because we all know many minds are better than one. The other day a question came up about the Mafia and Whitey. I responded that Whitey had little to do with the Mafia. The reason was he is Irish. The Mafia in New England had a strong dislike for things…
Part I: Whitey Bulger’s Case Demonstrates A Malign Media Mindset Involving Twisting Facts and Destroying Reputations
I sometimes have to wonder at the pap we get from our newspapers especially in stories relating to Bulger. I indicated yesterday that the mainstream media writers missed the point of Whitey admitting his role in some bank robberies back in 1956. He wasn’t ratting anyone out nor was he cooperating with the FBI. He…