Bitching about Boston

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Whitey Bulger drama-

"Motherfucker"

20 years of snitching

Flemmi rides, again (until he goes back, to his box)

 

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Thanks to G.W. Bush's takeover of the airwaves, I got my warning that it might get loud, until 4:30 this afternoon.
Tornado Alley East, will claim some victims, today ? This storm does not belong in New England.
The thunder is abnormally large, for so far away. Much too loud.

Severe thunderstorm watch for-

Barnstable, MA
Belknap, NH
Bristol, MA
Cheshire, NH
Dukes, MA
Essex, MA
Hillsborough, NH
Merrimack, NH
Middlesex, MA
Nantucket, MA
Norfolk, MA
Plymouth, MA
Rockingham, NH
Strafford, NH
Suffolk, MA
Worcester, MA

You know the drill....

 

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This week, Whitey Bulger had his Dorian Grey moment-

The hearings really had Whitey bored. Ho hum. Not much fun or attention to be had.

Until Stephen Flemmi ripped the rug off of Whitey's true portrait.

The Robin Hood image that he has used over the years, is shredded and filthy with the dirt that people have on him.

There are many articles in the Boston Globe to cover what was said.

Whitey was believed, when he said that he did not do evil things.

He said did not snitch to the FBI, sell drugs where his people lived, or kill women and children.

"Tony" Soprano wishes that he could be the cold- eyed sociopath that Whitey Bulger was.

Too bad, that Flemmi did not tell the jury if Whitey got his jollies off, while killing a 26 year old woman with his bare hands.

Maybe, that is just as well. The woman's brother was listening. He said the Winter Hill Gang were all liars.

July 20, 2013 "This exchange really captured Whitey's attention"
Kevin Cullen

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...r-attention/GKegnX1F9AprEiUBrbBZlI/story.html

 

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In 1988, summer did seem unforgettable to many – and unavoidable.

A prolonged pattern of dense air in the upper atmosphere extended the oppressive conditions from coast to coast.
Climate scientists had been warning of the “greenhouse effect” – rising carbon dioxide levels and a hotter planet –
for years. The heat wave of 1988 prompted more Americans to take the threat seriously.

Here on the South Shore, everyone from youngsters to the elderly coped with the heat any way they could. After
a scattering of highs in the 90s at the end of June and through July, the temperature was near 100 on Aug. 4.

Boston and the South Shore sweltered through the hottest August since 1870.

July 20, 2013
http://www.patriotledger.com/topstories/x1293264659/When-it-comes-to-heat-summer-of-1988-was-worse

HOT CAR DANGER: 70 degrees outdoors is too hot to leave a dog inside a car, as well as a person.

Outside Temp Car Temp
75 degrees 118 degrees
81 degrees 138 degrees
90 degrees 143 degrees
94 degrees 145 degrees

HOT ASPHALT DANGER: When a sidewalk, driveway or street heats to 125 degrees, skin destruction can occur in 60 seconds
Air temp Asphalt temp
77 degrees 125 degrees
86 degrees 135 degrees
87 degrees 143 degrees

 

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F- Bomb drama (They have so much respect for the judge!/ end sarcasm)

Was Stephen Flemmi thrown, by having to admit what kind of person he is, in court ? Is Stephen Flemmi just as horrible as Whitey Bulger ?

A noble child molester ? How does that play, in the myth of Robin Hood's band ?

Was Flemmi trying to pull a fast one, in court today ?

Flemmi suggested on the witness stand that Steve Davis (Debbie Davis's brother) was a drug-addicted informant.

Davis, who has long pushed for justice in his sister’s killing, stood up and shouted, “You’re a [expletive] liar!”

Flemmi apologized, saying he had mixed up Steve Davis with his brother, Mickey.

Looking somewhat shaken, he said, “I apologize for that remark.”

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...ial-resumes/VoxvzioXRNsotPknPh376I/story.html

 

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Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran Foxborough, MA July 26 2013
March, 2009 She was an unknown youngling actress on a cop show.
Now, chaos gathers, where-ever she goes. New song ?

 

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Local TV station, local coverage. Except for ABC executive footprints on some faces.

Chronicle HD

Thursday, July 25: The Ballad of Robin Lane

http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/thurs...ne/-/12523032/21019586/-/14qo62t/-/index.html

In 1980, Robin Lane and her band the Chartbusters were riding high, with a hit song called "When Things Go Wrong."

Tonight JC Monahan recounts her fascinating story, from a Los Angeles childhood as the daughter of a songwriter for
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, to relationships with Neil Young and a future member of the Police, to her present day
work with young people struggling to get a grip on their lives.

A Woman’s Voice CD at Whole Foods Markets - most likely found at Jamaica Plain Whole Foods and Cambridge Prospect Street store.

The Boston Globe has been good about giving timely mentions-

Joni Mitchell had to give up her child, and did not connect with that child until she was very deep in her music career.
Robin Lane made a different decision-

http://www.whenthingsgowrongmovie.com/synopsis.html

In 1979, after considerable local success and national recognition she and the band were signed to Warner Brothers Records. The group had the 11th video played on MTV, did several national tours, and was voted one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 10 New Bands of 1980. Despite their success the band dissolved after 3 years. Soon after, when Robin announced her pregnancy, she was told “Once a woman has a baby in this business, she’s over.” As an artist and now a mother, years of struggle to maintain a musical identity intensified. Eventually, after coming to terms with her own past, her gift for music and melody have found their way to a remarkable series of songwriting workshops.

 

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July 26, 2013

SOUTH WELLFLEET

And so the end came Tuesday for a Cape Cod National Seashore interpretive shelter celebrating the trans-Atlantic derring-do of
Guglielmo Marconi, the guy who in 1903 wirelessly hailed England from somewhere near where the shed once stood.

The actual Marconi Station went over the cliffs years ago, and ruins still surface on the beach below. But for the last 40 years or so,
a wooden gazebo, about 30 feet across, had provided shade for visitors and protection for exhibits about the Italian inventor's feats.

Karst Hoogeboom, chief of facilities and maintenance for the Cape Cod National Seashore, said extensive erosion in the area
in the past eight months led to the decision to remove the structure before things got too dicey.

Hoogeboom estimated about 40 to 50 feet of land had been lost in the area during that time, when a series of storms chewed away
at the coastline.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130726/NEWS/307260337/-1/NEWS01

 

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Another year, another festival in Newport-

http://www.npr.org/music/

 

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Strange- No alerts at the news station sites, but the override that grabs the control alerts me, by message strip.

This is not enough, to cause concern ?-

Severe thunderstorms produce damaging winds... destructive hail...
deadly lightning and very heavy rain.
For your protection... move to
an interior room on the lowest floor of your home or business. Heavy
rains flood roads quickly so do not
drive into areas where water
covers the Road.

The National Weather Service in Taunton has seen fit to let towns know-

Until 5:00 PM has passed, the alert is on-

South central Middlesex County in northeast Massachusetts...
northwestern Norfolk County in eastern Massachusetts...

 

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Where did it go ? Mystery solved-

What happened to the Coca Cola sign ? {gsgs comment- I forgot that it told the time!}

"The Coca Cola Bottling Company of Boston's sign was stored temporarily at the Beacon train engine facility (Conrail/CSX)" recalled
Phineas T. Whoopie in October, 2004, also on Neon Boston. "It was apparently scrapped. No one has taken responsibility."
- Jim Botticelli July 29, 2013
Dirty Old Boston
Things Go Better in Allston-Brighton

http://www.boston.com/blogs/yourtow.../07/things_go_better_in_allston-brighton.html

It still burns my backside, that thieves were allowed to steal the cast iron railings from the Longfellow Bridge.

Ex-state workers who stole cast iron from Longfellow Bridge lose pensions
June 14, 2010 05:59 PM

Two former state workers have surrendered $105,000 in pension money,
but still owe the state $458,000 for stealing cast iron from the Longfellow
Bridge and selling it for just $12,000, officials said today.

According to prosecutors, the cast iron was removed from the Longfellow in
2007 and stored at a DCR yard in Stoneham, where it was supposed to stay
until it was reinstalled on the bridge.

Historic preservationists said last year that the iron was "a historic treasure''
and had originally been installed on the bridge in 1907.

7/26/13

"Sitting in Harvard Square, our conductor announced multiple times that the delay was due to a broken track on the Longfellow."

"I was stuck at Kendall for 20 minutes, the operator said we were holding for workers on the track. She said it could be 2 minutes,
could be 10 minutes. It was 20. It's going to be a long 3 years while the bridge is repaired."

(more bitching about Boston....)

http://www.universalhub.com/2013/red-line-dies-again

 

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Awww! I missed it. I was busy being responsible.


"Crowds at Faneuil Hall Marketplace were more colorful than usual on Wednesday as fans donned costumes of their favorite characters
from comic books, video games, TV series, movies, and web sites for the first-ever Boston Comic Con Costume Contest."

The contest and parade around Quincy Market served as a preview for the 7th annual convention for comic book and science fiction fans
taking place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3 – 4, at the Seaport World Trade Center.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/bost...euil-hall/BPy9SGZFfKAGFtGi4QZNoL/gallery.html

 

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Were you around Downtown Crossing at around six, this evening ? I am guessing that Boston's house band from Faneuil Hall
was playing. Equipment has come a long way. The bass was strong, deep, dark, and delicious. The vocals were a pleasure.
Lead guitarist came across the airwaves clear as a bell. The drummer was unobtrusive, but kept it lively.

I played Guess That Song ( These men could turn on a dime.)

They started off with Hall and Oates- Sara Smile
Pin Ball Wizard -The Who (They carried off, quite well.)
Jesus Is Just Alright- The Doobie Brothers
Blue Sky- Allman Brothers

I had to head home. Last song that I heard-
Must of Got Lost- J. Geils Band

Tip of the hat, to hiz on-ah da May-yah
A good call, and a good time.

 

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Wow
Sideshow to the Whitey Bulger case-
Someone owed Rakes money. (The nice family man who lost the family store to Whitey, and his life screwed with by Whitey.)
He died of cyanide poisoning. (Rakes) Person of Interest....

 

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...sells-boston-globe-to-john-henry-for-70m.html




New York Times Sells Boston Globe to John Henry for $70M
By Edmund Lee
August 3, 2013

New York Times Co., which put its Boston Globe newspaper up for sale earlier this year, has agreed to sell the publication to John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, for $70 million in cash.

The deal, which also includes the Globe’s website, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and its website, Boston.com, a 49 percent stake in Metro Boston, and the Globe’s direct mail marketing company GlobeDirect, is expected to close in 30 to 60 days, the New York Times said in a statement.

Times Co. put the Boston Globe up for sale in February and hired Evercore Partners Inc. to manage the process, part of an effort to focus on its flagship New York Times media brand. Bids for the Globe were expected to be in the range of $100 million, people familiar with the matter said earlier this year.

“As a result of this agreement, we will be able to sharpen our company focus on and investments in The New York Times brand and its journalism,” New York Times Chief Executive Officer Mark Thompson said in the statement.

Interested parties included Rick Daniels, a former president of the Globe, and ex-Time Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Griffin, in partnership with cousins Steven and Ben Taylor, whose family once owned the newspaper, the people said.

Advertising Decline
New York Times, which bought the Globe for $1.1 billion 20 years ago, mostly in stock, is coping with an industrywide decline in advertising that has caused a drop in sales and stock prices.

The publisher, controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, has been working on a plan to sell the Globe since 2012 when it received an unsolicited bid from Daniels, the former Globe president, along with Heberden Ryan, a managing director of private-equity firm Boston Post Partners LLC, a person familiar with the matter has said. While their bid was about $100 million, it included contingencies that made it less attractive, the person said.

New York Times has rebuffed proposals that exceeded $100 million in the past. In 2011, Freedom Communications Inc. CEO Aaron Kushner, publisher of the Orange County Register and other California papers, offered more than $300 million, according to another person familiar with the deal who asked not to be identified because the matter was private. His offer included the assumption of both qualified and unqualified pensions. Times Co. turned down the offer because it didn’t include enough cash up front, according to another person, who also requested not to be named because the talks weren’t public.



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...sells-boston-globe-to-john-henry-for-70m.html

 

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Whitey Bulger victim murdered by William Camuti

Why did he do it ?

Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan speaks-

"Mr. Rakes and the defendant have known each other for many years and had been involved in a number of business transactions.”

“We developed evidence showing Mr. Camuti owed Mr. Rakes a significant amount of money.”

Camuti contacted Rakes by telephone on July 16 and asked to meet so they could discuss a business deal Camuti had
underway in Wilmington —

“Mr. Rakes was lured to this meeting on the promise of a real estate deal in which he could invest
to make a significant amount of money,’’ Ryan said. “However, that deal, did not, in fact, exist.”

Ryan said the two men met around 1:45 p.m. at a McDonald’s restaurant in Waltham. At some point, Camuti purchased two cups of iced coffee.

“We allege that the defendant, Mr. Camuti, laced one of those iced coffees with two teaspoons of potassium cyanide,” Ryan said.

She said that after Rakes, 59, ingested the fatal dose of poison, Camuti drove around for several hours with Rakes in a vehicle before
eventually dropping Rakes’s body off in a wooded area in Lincoln, where it was found July 17 without keys, a wallet, or cellphone.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...d-middlesex/3UDr0JNloV22gQEU8GSKJI/story.html

In other news-

Patricia Donahue calls Whitey Bulger a coward in court. Bulger whines, but does not allow justice for his murder victims.

More news-

The little creep that sold a jailhouse autograph, was filmed by a local TV camera. That autograph and letter was sold to TMZ.

 

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A stroll down memory lane, for me, today-

Something is up, with the Shraft building. Scaffolding is up. Do not look down!

http://www.flatleyco.com/schrafft.htm

Bartleby's Burger Cottage is suffering from the 2007-2008 Wall St. Crash. (and Harvard Biz school logic ?)
At least, it is still there. Unlike The Tasty. /sadface icon
Did not go through Allston today. Gentrification ? Started with a fern bar. pfffttttt
Speaking of student digs, the streets are overflowing with young hormones. Annoyed freshmen, with their moms,
pops, and siblings, experienced clumps of younglings strolling casually. Scaffolding and dug up places. Renovation and less ivy.
Bought a split and some Maynards Wine Gums. The little provisions store keeps changing. And so do the faces at the register.

 

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see- fern bar (acckkkk)

http://www.bahistory.org/RockHistory.html

 

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What is in the water, that they drink ?

Road rage causes suburban dad to act in a cruel manner towards a Verizon tech-

On 8/5/13, at approximately 3:27 PM, the Westborough Police Department received a call from a Verizon technician who reported
that he was locked in an underground vault located in the grass area at the corner of Research Dr. and Connector Rd. next to the
Westboro Self Storage.

Officer Dean Paine responded and found the top of the vault shut with large rocks placed on top to prevent the technician from
exiting the vault. Officer Paine removed the rocks and opened the hatch. The technician stated that he was working in the vault
when a male subject started yelling down at him. The technician stated the subject removed the ladder from inside the vault and
then barricaded the cover.

http://www.communityadvocate.com/2013/08/06/westborough-man-summoned-after-incident/

 

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Take note, please- above article mentions road rage. Was not road rage. Was lawn rage.

In other news, the Great Red Line Disruption will begin next week. It has been confirmed. Get on the bus!

Shuttle buses replacing Red Line service between Park St. and Kendall on Aug. 10-11 and Aug. 24-25

Affected stops:
Kendall/MIT Station
Charles/MGH Station
Park St. Station

Normal service will resume for the start of service on Mondays.

See site for upcoming bus rides.

http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/transit_updates/?ttype=subway&advistory=true&route=Red+Line#advise

 

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Whitey Bulger drama-

Whitey Bulger had immunity- from what ? Not talked about, in front of the jurors.

Defense lawyer speaks for Whitey Bulger- Send the government a message- It is all the government's fault.

What a defense! "My client did 90 per cent of what the government said he did. But, 10% of what they say he did, he did not do!"

(Nineteen people were murdered by Whitey Bulger. Teenagers and adults are dead, because Whitey Bulger dealt drugs.)

Whitey Bulger's lawyer admitted in court, that Whitey was a drug dealer. Pop, goes the myth. *

John Morris- said that Whitey was a rat, and Whitey paid the FBI for information.

Weeks- "....the two biggest rats...." (Flemmi and Bulger)

(Respect for the judge, is shown by Winter Hill gang members, in court)

Bulger reacts- "you suck!"
Weeks's reply-"Fuck you, OK!"
Bulger- "Fuck you, too!"

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Forensic dentist identified two bodies

Jurors also heard testimony from forensic dentist, Dr. Kathleen Crowley. She was able to positively identify the remains of two alleged Bulger victims.

The specific details of the dental work that helped identify Arthur "Bucky" Barrett's remains included a root canal, Crowley explained.
Earlier in the week, Bulger's long-time crime associate, Kevin Weeks, testified that he saw Bulger shoot Barrett in the back of his head
after Barrett had tried to buy his way out of death.

Using the same forensic methods, Crowley was able to determine that a different set of the remains belong to John "Joey" McIntyre.
Weeks alleged that Bulger killed McIntyre after McIntyre admitted to letting authorities capture drugs that Bulger's gang had intended
to sell.

 

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The Olde Boston Days, when people laughed about Whitey Bulger

It was never the real truth. Instead, it was an agreed-upon truth for many in South Boston:
Whitey Bulger protected the neighborhood. Whitey Bulger was the good guy. Whitey Bulger was Robin Hood.

(What to say, just in case someone from Whitey Bulger's gang might be listening ? Piss Whitey off, and you might end up dead!
Then, again, the Boston media helped perpetuate the myth that Whitey was a Robin Hood figure. Bulger helped in selling ad
spots and newspapers.)

gsgs comment- AFAIK- The police abused the Southie residents of "the projects." The residents were taken advantage of, humiliated,
and were ripped off. Police on one side and Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang, on the other side. Rock and a hard place.

The story of reputed mob boss James J. “Whitey” Bulger was always shrouded in a mythology that sounded good
on the street corners: the local guy who defended the walls of the famously insular neighborhood.

“I always thought he was for the poor, that he was a good guy,” Mary McClellan, 54, said recently as she sat on a bench
at Castle Island. “But that was a long time ago. People have come to know that he was a bad guy. The secret is out.”

As the jury prepares to deliver a verdict in Bulger’s racketeering trial, it’s difficult to find anyone in South Boston
who still buys into the romantic idea that Bulger, who is accused of 19 murders and a host of other crimes,
was a Southie version of a dark knight defending the community.

“The idea that he was a good guy was so ridiculous,” said Stephen Holmes, 60, as he waited in line for a
double cheeseburger at Sullivan’s. “I’m disgusted with him. When I was getting out of my car, I was thinking
about how he walked these paths.

‘He doesn’t deserve the attention. He’s a horrible human being. ’ — Phyllis Stavris, who sat with her husband, Norman,
at Castle Island on Tuesday. The couple are both South Boston natives.

“When I drive by Tenean Beach, I think of bodies,” he said of the site in Dorchester where authorities excavated the remains
of one of Bulger’s alleged victims. “That Robin Hood image is a long time ago. I hope nobody still buys into that myth
in any way. It was hard to believe that lie even at the time.”

In Bulger’s heyday,which ran from the 1970s through the early 1990s, many in the community bought into the narrative
that Bulger was misunderstood by the outside world, that his actions were driven by a desire to “protect” the
neighborhood by controlling it. In the aftermath of court-ordered busing in 1974, South Boston was a community
deeply caught up in an “us against them” mentality that made such mythology easier to digest.

Even as court documents and investigative journalists began to pick apart that tale, painting Bulger as a ruthless psychopath,
some clung to the idea of him as a protector.

Yet many who lived through the Bulger years in South Boston said they always found it hard to invest in the idea
that his criminal actions somehow helped the community. Rather than say such things publicly and risk reprisals,
many said they simply steered clear of the crime boss.

“I never bought into it,” said Phyllis Stavris, 84, who was at Castle Island with her husband, Norman, 89. Both were born
in the neighborhood, and their daughter went to high school with Kevin Weeks, one of Bulger’s henchman.
“He doesn’t deserve the attention. He’s a horrible human being,” she said.

But even today, there are many people who refused to give their name when speaking about Bulger. Nearly two decades
after he fled the neighborhood to escape law enforcement, talking about Whitey, at least on the record, still makes
many nervous.

“They were nasty, nasty people,” said a man at Castle Island who would only say that he was 71 and from South Boston.
“I can remember in the ’70s and ’80s when I’d hear people say he was keeping the drugs out of Southie,” he said,
before contorting his face into an expression of doubt. “Any illegal activity, he’s getting a piece of it. He’s no Robin Hood.
I have no idea where that came from.”

What has changed since Bulger was in power is the makeup of the community. Young newcomers have flocked to the neighborhood,
three-deckers have been converted to condos, and the old Southie of pubs and sub shops is slowly being replaced by boutiques
and bistros. South Boston has become just another place where the young go to be young before they move elsewhere to raise
families of their own.

And it is the transience of that population, more so than the iron fist of Bulger, that has weakened the community’s own natural protections,
according to many longtime residents.

“Everyone used to know everyone,” Patrick O’Leary, 61, said as he stood on a stoop on Old Harbor Street. “There were eyes watching everywhere.
Whitey didn’t protect the neighborhood. The neighborhood was protected by the community.”

Tell 'em, Billy Baker !

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...outh-boston/PpfOqoIwN7vEiJMhk3tJpK/story.html

 

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Two sides of the same coin-

Whitey Bulger the murdering psychopath and his brother, the corrupt and highly placed, Billy Bulger-
"he allowed only perfunctory debate and had a reputation for vindictiveness that traveled ahead of him."

William Bulger had never felt the need to make utterances about his relationship with his older brother during his 17 years as Senate president
and another seven as president of the University of Massachusetts. When it came to William Bulger, the mainstream press corps was as timid
as church mice, cowed by the possibility of losing access, as little as there was, to the president if anyone asked such an inconvenient question.
Some of the best reporters in town whiffed when it came to questions raised about Whitey. “But he won’t answer, so where do you go then?”
pleaded a fellow reporter. The fear of retribution, which held sway even as a perception when it might not be reality, kept the reputed killer
corps of reporters mum for decades.

http://bulger.wbur.org/story/1977/?location=27923

Only rarely, and out of bitterness, would a vanquished foe (of Billy Bulger) like the personable yet outmatched George Keverian,
one-time Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, invoke the name few dared mention in front of the Senate President.

“What Whitey does with a gun, Billy does with a gavel,” the late Speaker once told Boston Magazine.

 

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Two sides of the same coin, continued-

After Whitey Bulger got out of prison in 1965, Billy Bulger got him a job as a janitor in the Suffolk Courthouse.

For Whitey Bulger, being a janitor turned into a no-show job in 1971. He was
on the payroll for the next seven years and you could call him a fugitive,
except for the fact no one was looking for him.

"....the clerk saw the name James Bulger on the payroll and did a “what’s this?”

“It was like hiring a fox to guard the chicken coop,” Powers recalled. “I’m going to let a gangster walk around here at night
with keys to all the judges’ lobbies? For crissakes, I’d have to be insane.”

Powers took Whitey off the payroll. It was 1978, the same year that William Bulger became Senate President and, four years later,
Powers saw his salary and the salary of all his aides frozen for the next five years. That’s revenge served cold. And to do that to
the other office staff when “that was my decision,” was unconscionable, said Powers.

http://bulger.wbur.org/story/1977/?location=27923

"....in its investigation the FBI had never even bothered to interview William Bulger himself. Did the special relationship between
the FBI and James Whitey Bulger extend to his brother William? ( Billy Bulger )

That would have been a question to ask of William (Billy Bulger) when he turned up as master of ceremonies for the retirement of that FBI
spokesman John “Jack” Cloherty a few months later in June 1988. Cloherty had been the former partner of John Connolly, the agent who
handled the secret informant Whitey Bulger. (And Whitey’s mob partner Stephen Flemmi would later testify that Cloherty was one of the
agents on Whitey’s Santa list for $2500 in cash bribes for Christmas; Cloherty “vehemently” denied the allegation.)

 

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The tale of Billy Bulger would make a long and eventful TV mini-series-

Contrary to his long insistence that he (Billy Bulger) never knew his older brother (Whitey Bulger) was a government informant, Billy Bulger had walked
into a house and seen his brother with John Connolly, whom he knew was an FBI agent; with Stephen Flemmi, whom he knew was a gangster;
and another man, whom he would learn (if he didn’t already know) was John Connolly’s FBI supervisor. Two gangsters, two FBI agents,
sitting together at the kitchen table of the gangster’s house.

It didn’t take someone with intelligence keen enough to be Senate president to figure out that Whitey Bulger was an informant.

Hearings, before Judge Mark Wolf in 1998

Telling lies, in court-

1983, Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi—both FBI informants at the time—had their handler, John Connolly, and Connolly’s new supervisor
over for an Italian dinner cooked by Flemmi’s elderly mother Mary. FBI supervisor James Ring would later testify. “These people were not
consultants. They were not friends.”

Even more stunning to Ring was the sudden, unannounced arrival of the president of the Massachusetts State Senate after dinner.
Ring had no idea William Bulger lived next door. Stephen Flemmi would later suggest the senator’s arrival was intended to impress the
new FBI squad supervisor. He said Bill Bulger nodded in his direction, made small talk with his mother, Mary Flemmi, and left the house
soon after. Ring remembered Billy Bulger showing the men and Mary photographs taken on a trip to Ireland.

Billy Bulger denied ever being present, later downgrading his denial to a matter of not being able to recall. But in the report he wrote after
conducting the extraordinary hearings, Judge Wolf concluded that William Bulger had been present along with Connolly at that dinner.

http://bulger.wbur.org/story/1977/?location=27923