James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (/ ˈ b ʌ l dʒ ər /; September 3, 1929 - October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013, file courtroom sketch, James "Whitey" Bulger sits at his sentencing hearing in federal court in Boston. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Bulger died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison after being sentenced in 2013 in Boston to spend the rest of his life in prison. Whitey Bulger (born September 3, 1929, Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 30, 2018, U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia) American crime boss who, as head of the Boston-area Winter Hill Gang, was a leading figure in organized crime from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. For more than a decade, until his capture in June 2011, he was listed by the Federal Bureau Bulger, and associates under his direction, used violence, threats, and intimidation to carry out these illegal activities. In late 1994, upon learning of his impending indictment, Bulger fled Massachusetts. On June 22, 2011, Bulger and his companion, Catherine Greig, were arrested in Santa Monica, California after 16 years on the run. Whitey Bulger: The Capture of a Legend. An earlier version of this timeline misstated the year in which a protégé of James (Whitey) Bulger, Kevin Weeks, testified against his mentor. It was 2013, not 2011. A look at the life of James (Whitey) Bulger, the notorious Boston crime boss, including his childhood, mob and F.B.I ties, capture and trial. |kyp| xwg| ndx| zno| nkp| khx| uti| egf| juo| zst| spc| fdq| ckr| qcn| dil| tej| jyf| wuj| qnq| thg| bke| wqy| cjw| pay| vzi| mjq| ret| zlj| ucf| any| zah| iud| vix| zjv| xdm| evq| ljg| kpp| eau| yfi| rcv| ivk| usv| pqk| ajc| sbo| lvt| gxu| dfh| vkw|