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[2] [3] [4] William Bulger was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and is the third of six children in the family, and younger brother of former mob boss James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (1929–2018). Bulger's father worked as a union laborer and occasional longshoreman; he lost his arm in an industrial accident and the family was reduced to ...
John Joseph Connolly Jr. (born August 1, 1940) [2] is an American former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice and murder charges stemming from his relationship with Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi and the Winter Hill Gang.
At the time of Bulger's death, Geas was serving a life term for the 2003 murders of Genovese crime family boss Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno and associate Gary Westerman. DeCologero was serving a sentence ...
Bulger's death came as a relief to many Bostonians, especially for family members of his victims; [107] Steven Davis, whose sister Debra was reportedly killed by Bulger in 1981, stated that "[h]e died the way I hoped he always was going to die." [107] Bulger is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in the Boston neighborhood of West Roxbury.
Fotios Geas, 55; Paul J. DeCologero, 48; and Sean McKinnon, 36, were all charged in Bulger’s death in October 2018 at a federal jail in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. The specific terms of the ...
A former mafia hitman who was already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years in custody on Friday for the killing of notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger in his prison cell in ...
Kevin Weeks (born March 21, 1956) is an American former mobster and longtime friend and mob lieutenant to Whitey Bulger, the infamous boss of the Winter Hill Gang, a crime family based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts.
The Justice Department said last year that it would not seek the death penalty against him in Bulger’s killing. Bulger, who ran the largely Irish gang in Boston in the 1970s and ’80s, also ...