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William Michael Bulger (born February 2, 1934) is an American former Democratic politician, lawyer, and educator from South Boston, Massachusetts.His eighteen-year tenure as President of the Massachusetts Senate is the longest in history.
Connolly admired his neighbor William "Billy" Bulger, six years his senior; he did not meet Billy's older brother, James "Whitey" Bulger, until he was eight years old. The nineteen-year-old Whitey, who was already notorious as the leader of the Mercer Street gang, bought the other neighborhood boys ice cream and convinced an awestruck Connolly ...
Carr has been among the most aggressive critics of the Bulger brothers, Whitey and Billy, for their careers in the Boston area; among his works is the book The Brothers Bulger, detailing the Bulger brothers' 25-year period of controlling Boston politics and the Boston underworld. [32]
In January 2014, Cooper became attached to rewrite and direct Black Mass, [10] a crime drama based the book of the same name by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, [11] described as the "true story of Billy Bulger, Whitey Bulger, FBI agent John Connolly and the FBI's witness protection program that was created by J. Edgar Hoover."
Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals ...
Billy Bulger – President of the Massachusetts State Senate [7] Aedanus Burke – US Congressman [8] Thomas Burke – North Carolina governor [9] Thomas A. Burke – Cleveland mayor, US Senator [10] William J. Burke – US Congressman [11] Prescott Bush – banker/US Senator; Brendan Byrne – former Governor of New Jersey; Jane Byrne ...
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 Departed is a 2006 epic crime thriller film [3] [4] [5] directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. [6] It is both an English-language remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and also loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang; the character Colin Sullivan is based on the corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, while the character Frank Costello is based on ...