The Debrief With MyronGainesX - The FBI's 2nd Most Wanted Man Behind Osama Bin Laden： James ＂Whitey＂ Bulger

00:00:00.940 What's up, guys? Welcome to FedIt. Today, we're going to talk about Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang, man.

00:00:04.780 This is going to be one of my favorite episodes. Let's break it down.

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00:01:45.820 The days of the police are gone.

00:01:47.580 So he was in this bad boy.

00:01:48.980 We're going to go over his past, the gang guy, so that this all makes sense.

00:01:53.120 All right.

00:01:59.800 And we're back.

00:02:00.240 What's up, guys?

00:02:00.700 Welcome to Fed It.

00:02:01.200 Today, we're going to talk about the Whitey, Bolger, and Winter Hill gang case, guys.

00:02:06.400 Not going to lie to you guys.

00:02:07.260 It's going to be one of my favorite ones because I spent a considerable amount of time in Boston.

00:02:11.820 I went to college there.

00:02:12.960 Just to give you guys a quick little background.

00:02:14.180 Let's go down memory lane.

00:02:18.220 So as you guys know, I'm originally from Connecticut.

00:02:20.000 I'm from New England.

00:02:20.540 And I went to college at Northeast University in Boston.

00:02:23.960 Now, when I was there, I was an intern for Homeland Security Investigation.

00:02:28.000 That's where, actually, I got my start as an intern for the federal government.

00:02:31.720 And it was out of the government building was the tip building down there at 10 Causeway Street,

00:02:39.060 right next to TD Garden in North Boston.

00:02:42.440 And, or, yeah, they call it North Boston, right?

00:02:45.640 Or they call it North End.

00:02:46.660 The North End.

00:02:47.440 Excuse me.

00:02:47.960 Yeah.

00:02:47.980 Yeah.

00:02:48.520 The North End. 1.00

00:02:49.380 That's so stupid. 1.00

00:02:49.960 It's been a while. 1.00

00:02:51.040 And I was in, I was living in Boston, guys, from 2009 all the way up to 2013.

00:02:55.840 So I spent a considerable amount of time there.

00:02:58.280 It was a lot of fun.

00:02:59.660 One of my favorite cities.

00:03:01.120 And, you know, you're not from Boston if you don't know who Eddie Bolger is, man.

00:03:05.580 Infamous crime boss for the Winter Hill Gang.

00:03:07.800 He was, you know, we're going to go over his story, but it was great.

00:03:15.020 You know, his backstory, you know, obviously the guy was involved in a bunch of murders.

00:03:19.500 He was an informer for the FBI.

00:03:20.860 But he did things very intelligently, but he did things very intelligently where he was giving information on his counterparts, which is actually genius when you look at it and was able to evade arrest and detection for his own criminal activity, which we're going to get into in more detail here.

00:03:36.520 But, yeah, man, this is going to be awesome.

00:03:40.380 This is one of my, he's one of my favorites crime stories to cover.

00:03:43.980 It's going to be one of my favorite ones.

00:03:45.420 So, you know, especially since I have such a strong tie to the city of Boston.

00:03:48.780 But I got Christina with me here.

00:03:50.920 She's from Boston.

00:03:51.920 So what do you, what do you got to say about this?

00:03:54.120 Well, introduce yourself to the people real quick.

00:03:55.420 And then what are your thoughts here?

00:03:56.680 I mean, it's just huge in Boston.

00:04:00.880 I mean, like, it's just well known.

00:04:02.420 If you don't know who he is, then it's just you don't live there.

00:04:05.420 Yeah.

00:04:05.800 It makes no sense.

00:04:06.360 Like, he vanned, like, South End.

00:04:07.960 Yeah.

00:04:08.560 So.

00:04:09.680 Folk legend.

00:04:10.800 Yeah.

00:04:11.180 I mean, he's, like, he's Irish.

00:04:13.280 Like, he's, like, the main guy.

00:04:15.460 Yep.

00:04:16.020 Yep.

00:04:16.680 So, yeah, he wasn't a typical Italian mobster, man.

00:04:18.800 He was Irish, guys.

00:04:19.580 So, and we're going to talk about, you know, his rise, you know, getting, you know, being on the run for damn near 20 years, how he made the FBI's top most wanted list.

00:04:29.920 He was number two next to Osama bin Laden, which is crazy.

00:04:33.880 And, you know, how he was captured and eventually how he died.

00:04:36.400 So, we're going to go ahead.

00:04:37.860 And actually, they just found the people that were responsible for killing him.

00:04:41.960 They just indicted them a couple of days ago, actually.

00:04:44.620 So, we're going to go ahead and break it all down for y'all.

00:04:47.620 So, I got a documentary to react to.

00:04:49.580 So, let me go ahead and start moving some stuff around on my end, guys.

00:04:53.720 And we're going to go ahead and start breaking down a documentary.

00:04:57.040 And I also have a bunch of articles.

00:04:58.460 I have the movie Black Mass, which featured Johnny Depp.

00:05:02.060 We're going to play scenes from that as well.

00:05:03.540 So, this is going to be a really good, cool breakdown for y'all.

00:05:06.040 So, yeah, sit back, get your popcorn ready.

00:05:08.320 And let's go ahead and start breaking this bad boy down.

00:05:12.620 So, and guys, before I do this, by the way, do me a quick favor.

00:05:16.120 Like the video, man, because this one took a lot of time to prepare for.

00:05:19.220 We're going to be reacting to this documentary called Bullets Over Boston.

00:05:23.620 It came out in 2008.

00:05:24.680 And we're going to be using other clips and excerpts and documents as well to go over this investigation.

00:05:30.100 Because this was a very big situation.

00:05:32.420 It went from, you know, his rise, you know, as early as, you know, he was in Alcatraz all the way to his death.

00:05:38.460 So, we're going to cover decades here of the Whitey Bulger situation. 0.97

00:05:43.120 But, yeah, like the video, guys.

00:05:44.800 Subscribe to the channel.

00:05:45.980 And let's get into it. 1.00

00:05:49.220 This guy would put a bullet in your head without any remorse at all. 0.99

00:06:19.880 For 20 years, Whitey Bulger is secretly protected by rogue FBI agents. 0.94

00:06:25.280 If the law enforces are the law breakers, then the whole system fails.

00:06:30.420 In a barrage of bullets and blood, James Whitey Bulger's Irish mob weaves a web of corruption, double cross, and murder that rocks Boston to its core. 1.00

00:06:41.020 Boston, Massachusetts, May 11th, 1982.

00:06:57.360 Early evening.

00:06:58.180 In a waterfront bar, Brian Halloran, a small-time hood, is having dinner with an associate.

00:07:05.720 Brian Halloran, guys, was a member of the Winter Hill gang working alongside Whitey Bulger.

00:07:11.620 Familiar with the city's Irish-American mobsters, he's being watched, but not by the cops.

00:07:20.300 A young man named Kevin Weeks keeps Halloran under surveillance.

00:07:26.800 Real quick, you guys are probably wondering, who the hell is Kevin Weeks?

00:07:29.060 Guys, Kevin Weeks, this is him right here.

00:07:31.280 Born March 21st, 1956.

00:07:32.940 An American former mobster and longtime friend and mob lieutenant for Whitey Bulger.

00:07:36.520 The infamous boss of the Winter Hill gang, a crime family based in the Winter Hill neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts.

00:07:40.880 After his arrest and imprisonment in 1999, he became a cooperating witness.

00:07:45.220 And, you know, obviously, it talks about him pleading.

00:07:49.300 But he was one of Whitey Bulger's trusted associates, okay? 0.59

00:07:53.240 And let me see here.

00:07:54.520 And this is him, a photo of him right here, Whitey Bulger, from back in the day. 0.72

00:07:58.040 There he is right there with the Yale sweater.

00:08:00.760 And there's Bulger right there.

00:08:04.440 So let's go back.

00:08:08.180 I was in the lookout car.

00:08:09.560 I called the hit in.

00:08:12.360 Halloran and Weeks both work for Irish-American gangster James Whitey Bulger.

00:08:17.960 We were looking for Brian Halloran for a while.

00:08:20.840 He was cooperating with the FBI, I believe, on a couple of murders, saying that Jim Bulger committed them.

00:08:27.960 So obviously, providing information to the government is going to put a target on your back.

00:08:32.040 And you don't want someone like Whitey Bulger putting a target on your back.

00:08:34.660 And you guys are going to see here in a second.

00:08:36.100 Cops is unforgivable.

00:08:37.400 So, Bulger plans to make an example of Halloran. 1.00

00:08:41.140 Basically, what he was sending the message is, if you're going to cooperate against me, I'm going to kill you. 0.98

00:08:46.820 Weeks is equipped with binoculars and a CB radio. 0.98

00:08:49.400 I picked up the walkie-talkie and I let him know that he was coming out.

00:08:55.460 I knew that somewhere it doesn't lie, there would be violence, you know, more than beating people up and stuff.

00:09:01.700 But when that comes, you're never totally prepared for it.

00:09:06.880 Bulger and the trigger man screech into the lot.

00:09:09.280 Jim Bulger shot him with a .30 caliber carbine and with a machine gun from the backseat.

00:09:16.820 The driver was dead instantly.

00:09:22.020 Panic-stricken witnesses dive for cover.

00:09:25.780 Kevin Weeks looks on as Brian Halloran staggers out of the car.

00:09:28.980 Brian Halloran was still alive.

00:09:30.760 He got out and started walking backwards.

00:09:33.800 Jim Bulger just took the rifle and started pumping bullets into him.

00:09:38.280 For weeks, the Halloran murder is a rite of passage.

00:09:42.020 It makes him a full-fledged member of Whitey Bulger's inner circle. 0.96

00:09:45.140 Now, I got the scene here for you guys from the actual movie, okay, which I think it was, yeah, 101.

00:09:56.840 See, guys, I've been studying, man, and I've been prepared.

00:09:59.580 So here's the actual scene from the movie for y'all, and we'll go ahead and play this.

00:10:08.500 Oh, are they not playing it?

00:10:09.880 Is it black screen?

00:10:11.280 Uh-uh.

00:10:12.420 Hold on.

00:10:12.840 See, like...

00:10:15.140 Oh, man.

00:10:16.760 I think...

00:10:17.240 You know what?

00:10:17.580 It might be because I'm on YouTube movies.

00:10:19.100 They might not allow this.

00:10:20.900 Let me try refreshing the page.

00:10:22.960 Bear with me here, guys.

00:10:23.740 Sorry.

00:10:24.600 I don't know why.

00:10:25.440 Okay, so here's Black Mass.

00:10:27.740 Okay.

00:10:28.760 The preview.

00:10:30.240 Oh, I'm on the wrong channel.

00:10:31.320 No wonder.

00:10:31.840 My bad.

00:10:32.720 We're going to switch over to FedIt because I actually bought this on my other channel.

00:10:36.440 Sorry about that, guys.

00:10:37.320 I was going to say, like...

00:10:38.440 Yeah, I was going to say.

00:10:39.660 Okay, let me refresh this for y'all real fast.

00:10:42.160 Bear with me here, guys.

00:10:43.300 This was actually a movie from 2015, guys, on Whitey Boldrin and the Winter Hill Gang.

00:10:49.880 Let's see here.

00:10:51.020 You know, he didn't like Johnny Depp's acting.

00:10:53.320 He didn't?

00:10:53.940 No.

00:10:54.620 What do you say?

00:10:55.860 I read something like he just didn't like it.

00:10:57.720 He just...

00:10:58.180 It didn't like...

00:10:59.400 It didn't fit him.

00:11:00.900 He didn't like how he...

00:11:02.180 Oh, are they not letting you show...

00:11:05.580 Because I'm looking here on the share screen and it's not playing.

00:11:08.360 Why don't you...

00:11:09.140 Because you can't see it, right?

00:11:10.040 Oh, man.

00:11:12.700 Do you want to do this?

00:11:13.800 Bummer.

00:11:14.300 Wait, wait, hold on.

00:11:15.520 Why don't we try the website I gave you?

00:11:18.320 All right.

00:11:18.680 So let's go ahead and keep playing the documentary then.

00:11:21.100 Wait.

00:11:21.420 I'm going to find it.

00:11:23.440 At that point, I realized my life had changed. 0.99

00:11:25.580 Damn. 0.99

00:11:25.800 I was trying to show y'all the scene from the movie when he actually shoots him up. 0.99

00:11:29.120 You know what?

00:11:29.400 I might be able to find it on YouTube.

00:11:30.500 Let me see here.

00:11:31.000 What's the timestamp for that one?

00:11:32.280 What was that?

00:11:32.740 What's the timestamp?

00:11:34.260 It was at 101.

00:11:35.340 Because I want to see if they have it here.

00:11:38.220 Here.

00:11:38.720 So...

00:11:39.780 Black. 0.93

00:11:40.980 Mass.

00:11:42.540 Halloran scene.

00:11:44.700 They might have it here.

00:11:47.620 Okay.

00:11:48.080 Now they're playing it.

00:11:48.780 Okay.

00:11:49.140 We're good.

00:11:49.480 We'll just play it from here.

00:11:50.760 I found it.

00:11:51.260 Halloran is in a passenger seat, by the way, guys.

00:12:14.840 The actor is on the passenger seat playing Halloran. 1.00

00:12:16.760 Fuck! 1.00

00:12:18.440 Okay! 1.00

00:12:19.400 Okay!

00:12:21.260 So they obviously switched it around a little bit.

00:12:51.240 But for more dramatic effect, right?

00:12:52.640 Because, you know, you can see Kevin Weeks said,

00:12:54.300 Hey, you just shot him with a rifle the whole time.

00:12:56.420 Which is somewhat accurate here.

00:12:57.780 And then he gets out the car.

00:12:58.740 But they had a little bit more dramatic effect with this situation here.

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00:13:21.240 There ain't nothing to see here.

00:13:28.240 I thought there was no going back.

00:13:30.240 So I decided, well, if I'm gonna be a criminal, I'm gonna be the best criminal I can.

00:13:35.360 In the 1980s, Boston is no stranger to gangland slaying.

00:13:40.120 For decades, rival mobs control the city's rackets.

00:13:44.600 The main Irish gangs are in Somerville and Charlestown.

00:13:48.400 The Italian Mafia dominates the Old North End District.

00:13:52.400 But Whitey Bulger gets his start in the lowest reaches of the city's underworld, far to the south.

00:13:59.980 South Boston, an area locally known as Southie, is a cramped grid dominated by three Depression-era housing projects.

00:14:08.400 Southie's going through some serious gentrification now, though, guys.

00:14:12.400 It's a lot nicer than it used to be.

00:14:14.400 It's so different.

00:14:15.400 When I was, yeah, when I was going to college, Southie, a bunch of, like, students, like, college students from Northeastern, BU, etc., they lived in Southie because it was much cheaper to live there than to live in, like, the main downtown area where BU and NU are located.

00:14:29.400 So Southie is a lot cheaper.

00:14:31.400 The projects are even taken down, too.

00:14:33.400 They turn into, like, houses.

00:14:35.400 Oh, they took them down?

00:14:36.400 It's, like, townhouse.

00:14:37.400 Like, some of them are still there, but some of them are turning into townhouses, which is still government assistance.

00:14:41.400 Still projects are just looking nicer.

00:14:42.400 A lot nicer?

00:14:43.400 Okay.

00:14:44.400 Yeah, Southie is a lot nicer now, guys.

00:14:46.400 It's not as bad as, obviously, here in the 70s.

00:14:48.400 40% of Boston's population is of Irish heritage.

00:14:52.400 The city was the first in America to hold an annual St. Patrick's Day parade.

00:14:57.400 In Southie, Boston's Irish Catholic heart beats strong.

00:15:01.400 South Boston was predominantly an Irish ghetto, and it was just a very insular area.

00:15:10.400 Nobody ever went over into South Boston unless they were from South Boston.

00:15:17.400 Southie is a poor neighborhood, but some managed to prosper.

00:15:22.400 During the 1960s, Bulger's brother Billy is an ambitious local Democrat.

00:15:28.400 By the 80s, he's the state senate president with political links that reach as far as Washington, D.C.

00:15:35.400 Yet Billy still lives in South Boston, staying close to his roots and close to his criminal brother.

00:15:46.400 And here he is real quick, guys.

00:15:47.400 William Bulger right here.

00:15:49.400 William Michael Bulger, born February 2, 1934, is an American, former Democratic politician, lawyer, and educator from South Boston, Massachusetts.

00:15:59.400 His 18-year tenure as president of Massachusetts Senate is the longest in history.

00:16:02.400 He then became president of the University of Massachusetts.

00:16:04.400 Bulger came from the Old Harbor Village Housing Development, now more commonly known as the Mary Ellen McCormick Housing Development.

00:16:10.400 He graduated from Boston College High School in 1952, from then Boston College and Classics, and then from Boston College Law School.

00:16:17.400 Despite his brother's infamy as a convicted mob boss, James Whitey Bulger, who led the Winter Hill Gang, investigators have never uncovered any evidence that the two brothers colluded in 2003,

00:16:26.400 testified in a congressional hearing about communications he had with his then-fugitive brother.

00:16:30.400 Due to negative publicity, he was forced to resign from the presidency of the University of Massachusetts.

00:16:34.400 Bulger went on to teach as a visiting scholar at Suffolk University, but has since removed himself from public life, man.

00:16:40.400 So, yeah, this is someone who had some political aspirations that were pretty much destroyed from his brother being a crime mob boss, man.

00:16:47.400 So, kind of sucks for him, but that's what happens sometimes.

00:16:50.400 The Bulger brothers live in a world where people aspire to a simple code. 1.00

00:16:55.400 Look after your own. Stand up for yourself.

00:16:58.400 Disputes are settled by the fist. Men are expected to fight. 0.69

00:17:03.400 It was a matter of fact that you had to win every fight, but you did have to show up. 0.98

00:17:08.400 Yeah, they didn't sit there and talk shit about each other on the internet, guys. 0.98

00:17:12.400 They went and found him and punched him. 0.98

00:17:14.400 In this tough environment, Whitey Bulger stands out as tougher than most.

00:17:20.400 He served a seven-year stretch in Alcatraz for armed robbery.

00:17:24.400 But he's a-

00:17:25.400 And Alcatraz, guys, is a prison out there just outside of San Francisco.

00:17:29.400 I think it's closed down now. It's a museum.

00:17:31.400 But back then, it was a very tough prison to be in, man.

00:17:34.400 One of the worst places you can be.

00:17:36.400 Though they said that the food was good there.

00:17:38.400 He said he loved it.

00:17:39.400 What? Really?

00:17:40.400 Yeah. Like, he, like, loved it.

00:17:42.400 Oh. Why did he like it?

00:17:44.400 I don't know. He just said that he loved it. That's like his favorite.

00:17:47.400 Okay.

00:17:48.400 Well, I know this, him going to Alcatraz, though, made him realize, like,

00:17:51.400 I'm never going back to prison. I know he said that.

00:17:53.400 And I've been told, I did some research somewhere where they were saying, like,

00:17:57.400 the only thing about Alcatraz that was good was apparently the food was good there.

00:18:00.400 That's so good.

00:18:02.400 But okay.

00:18:03.400 Big fish in a small pond.

00:18:05.400 During the 60s, the Southie area is barely on the radar of the Mafia

00:18:10.400 and the main Irish gangs in Somerville and Charlestown.

00:18:14.400 In the North End, the Mafia dominates the city's organized crime.

00:18:18.400 From here, Mafia underboss Jerry Angelo and his consigliere Larry Zanino take a cut from the scam.

00:18:26.400 And it was a federal prison, by the way, guys, Alcatraz.

00:18:28.400 And he went for bank robbery.

00:18:29.400 As you guys know, bank robbery, we've broken them down on this channel many times, is a federal crime.

00:18:34.400 Okay.

00:18:35.400 So anytime you rob a bank, it's FDIC insured.

00:18:38.400 FBI is going to show up.

00:18:39.400 ...run by other gangs.

00:18:44.400 Crime in Southie is small time.

00:18:46.400 But even...

00:18:48.400 So the Mafia ran everything, guys, in the 70s.

00:18:50.400 Okay.

00:18:51.400 Basically, everybody was paying money back to the Mafia to be able to run their illegal activities.

00:18:55.400 Here, gangsters still have to pay a street tax to the Mafia.

00:19:00.400 Competing street gangs run nickel and dime gaming and protection rackets.

00:19:05.400 Whitey Bulger is an enforcer and debt collector for one of them.

00:19:10.400 But Bulger's gang has rivals.

00:19:12.400 Seen here in a rare and battered old photograph.

00:19:15.400 A cocky young group of robbers.

00:19:17.400 Among them, Pat Knee. 0.95

00:19:20.400 We were thieves.

00:19:21.400 We like to steal and we like to party.

00:19:23.400 And we might make enough money on one score to last two or three months.

00:19:27.400 But while we were out partying, we'd always be looking for the next one.

00:19:31.400 Knee's gang operates in the South Boston docks in what is now known as the Conley Terminal.

00:19:38.400 One of their specialties is raiding parked trucks full of the daily catch.

00:19:43.400 A lot of money in tuna fishing crab meat.

00:19:47.400 A lot of money in items that are sold every day.

00:19:49.400 Crab meat, man.

00:19:50.400 Stealing from the docks.

00:19:52.400 Goods that are consumed every day.

00:19:55.400 That's what you would like to steal.

00:19:57.400 One night in July 1969, Knee's men are celebrating a successful heist when a drunken brawl breaks out with some of Bulger's gang members. 1.00

00:20:10.400 Alcohol always makes people do stupid shit, man. 1.00

00:20:17.400 Can you imagine? 1.00

00:20:18.400 What'd you say about my mother? 1.00

00:20:19.400 I'm gonna fuck you up, asshole. 1.00

00:20:21.400 That's called the Fighting Irish for a reason. 1.00

00:20:23.400 By chance, both Knee and Bulger are in another bar nearby when they hear what's happening.

00:20:29.400 The two, soon to be rivals, share a ride to the fight.

00:20:36.400 And we pulled up.

00:20:38.400 Me and Whitey just kind of looked at each other.

00:20:40.400 I said, well, it's the last time we'll be talking on this level.

00:20:43.400 See you later.

00:20:44.400 He said, see you later.

00:20:45.400 Then the shooting started.

00:20:48.400 The war lasts from 1969 to 70.

00:20:51.400 So think about that.

00:20:52.400 Over a drunken fight now, right?

00:20:55.400 Um, these two guys that were, you know, business associates essentially are now they're enemies.

00:21:01.400 You know, now, now they're enemies off of one fight.

00:21:03.400 And now they're, you know, just shooting at each other, which is crazy.

00:21:06.400 But that's, that's the world that we were in.

00:21:08.400 That's the world that they were in back then.

00:21:10.400 Okay.

00:21:11.400 Just do some readjusting on my side real quick, guys.

00:21:13.400 And we'll go right back into it. 0.99

00:21:14.400 But could you imagine one drunken fight leads to a fucking gang war? 1.00

00:21:18.400 Yeah. 0.99

00:21:19.400 Well, it's such a huge thing.

00:21:21.400 Like every time you go to the bar in Boston, everybody's always fighting.

00:21:25.400 No matter what.

00:21:26.400 Ah.

00:21:27.400 At first, it's Knee's gang who are on the receiving end.

00:21:31.400 Dodging Bulger's bullets in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

00:21:35.400 But the war turns ugly when Knee's brother is murdered by a Bulger associate. 0.94

00:21:40.400 When Peter got killed, I decided I could kill.

00:21:44.400 And I started hunting.

00:21:46.400 The next Marine with combat experience in Vietnam, Knee tracks his target with cold-blooded vengeance.

00:21:56.400 One cold and wet night in November 1969, Knee finally confronts his brother's killer.

00:22:03.400 I finally trapped him coming home.

00:22:09.400 I creeped up the alleyway as he's parking.

00:22:12.400 And then when he turned around, I said, well, it's your turn, you .

00:22:15.400 And I opened up on him. 0.93

00:22:17.400 I thought I shot him over the heart, under the heart, blew out his right lung. 0.97

00:22:26.400 I think I hit him twice in the stomach. 0.97

00:22:28.400 I thought I hit him in the heart. 0.93

00:22:30.400 And when he went down, I kicked his teeth out and I spit on him.

00:22:34.400 Incredibly, Knee's target survives.

00:22:37.400 But now Bulger knows that rival gangster Pat Knee is a dangerous opponent.

00:22:44.400 As war is breaking out among Irish gangs in South Boston, to the north, another Irish gang war is ending.

00:22:55.400 The Somerville district of Winter Hill plays host to Boston's biggest Irish mob.

00:23:00.400 But this suburb is besieged by rival gangsters from neighboring Charlestown.

00:23:06.400 At stake, lucrative bookmaking and extortion rackets.

00:23:10.400 OK, guys, bookmaking, guys, is illegal gambling, essentially.

00:23:14.400 OK, and extortion is, you know, when you basically tell people, hey, you got to pay up for this protection or else.

00:23:21.400 And you basically force them to pay you money or else they're going to feel some physical consequences.

00:23:25.400 Howie Winter is the leader of the Winter Hill Gang from during the late 1960s.

00:23:30.400 OK, so real quick with the Winter Hill Gang, this is the Winter Hill Gang right here, guys.

00:23:34.400 OK, I want to go ahead.

00:23:35.400 This organizational chart for y'all.

00:23:37.400 OK, of the Winter Hill Gang from the 1970s, mid-1975.

00:23:41.400 So you can see here, here's Howie Winter.

00:23:43.400 OK, here's James Bulger.

00:23:45.400 Here's Pat Knee over here.

00:23:46.400 They're basically running a sports gambling business.

00:23:48.400 And this is how a lot of these guys, right, were making money back then with the bookmaking.

00:23:55.400 And then here's Stephen Fleming, who's a very close associate and friend of Whitey Bulger working together.

00:24:00.400 And you guys can see, man, this is organized crime, my friends.

00:24:03.400 This is I remember I used to have charts like this in my office as well for my cases when I had drug conspiracies, et cetera.

00:24:08.400 And this allows you to map out, hey, this organization, this is what they do, et cetera, et cetera.

00:24:14.400 So back in the 70s, what they were doing, the Irish gang, was they were basically rigging horse bets or horse racing. 0.99

00:24:22.400 And they were like, you know, paying off jockeys, paying off, you know, fucking up with the fucking with the horses, everything else like that. 0.91

00:24:28.400 So the horses would lose on purpose. 0.95

00:24:29.400 So they were there was a lot of money involved in sports betting, guys.

00:24:34.400 But this is obviously something that's illegal because it's illegal gambling.

00:24:37.400 But they used to run these rackets all over the place back then.

00:24:41.400 So life wasn't worth much in those days, you know, I mean, most of us had a mindset that we were not going to survive too long.

00:24:50.400 And that's how we Howard went to right there.

00:24:52.400 As you guys can see, here he is right here back then.

00:24:56.400 Right from mid 70s.

00:24:58.400 And that's him a little bit more recently.

00:25:01.400 This documentary a little bit older.

00:25:02.400 This documentary from around 2008.

00:25:04.400 So, you know.

00:25:06.400 By the early 1970s, the war has cost over 40 lives from both gangs.

00:25:13.400 Myself and a couple of other guys were all that was left, really, you know.

00:25:19.400 Most everybody else was deceased.

00:25:22.400 As one of the few survivors, Winter claims the leadership of all Boston Irish gangs.

00:25:28.400 But he's short of manpower.

00:25:31.400 In 1972, Whitey Bulger offers to step into the breach and join forces with Winter.

00:25:38.400 But first, he asks Winter to help him make peace with his rival, Pat Knee.

00:25:43.400 With Howie Winter as benefactor, Knee and Bulger sit down together for the first time in two years.

00:25:50.400 We met and we didn't shake hands.

00:25:55.400 We sat down at the same table and we started talking.

00:25:58.400 And we decided to win the hostilities between ourselves at that point.

00:26:04.400 Bulger proposes that he and me team up and split South Boston's rackets between them.

00:26:11.400 They would pay Howie Winter a share of their take.

00:26:16.400 And he, in turn, would pay the Mafia.

00:26:21.400 So, just so you guys know, the Mafia were running things back then.

00:26:25.400 And the main guy that was doing this was this guy right here, Jerry Angulo, okay?

00:26:29.400 Gennaro Joseph Jerry Angulo Sr.

00:26:32.400 Was an American mobster who rose to the position of under Boston,

00:26:35.400 the patriarca crime family of New England under Raymond L.S.

00:26:39.400 Patriarca Angulo was convicted of racketeering in 1986 and was in prison until being released in 2007.

00:26:45.400 One of the Angulo brothers, he was probably the last very significant Mafia boss in Boston's history.

00:26:50.400 So, yeah, guys, they had a hard-on going after this guy.

00:26:54.400 And John Connolly, the FBI agent that, you know, ended up arresting this guy,

00:26:58.400 used Bulger as a primary informant to go ahead and build a case against the Angulos, okay? 0.93

00:27:04.400 And they were able to basically figure out where they were doing their dirt.

00:27:10.400 And they were doing it right here on 98 Prince Street, okay?

00:27:14.400 And the north end of Boston, as you guys can see, this is, you know, tight streets.

00:27:19.400 And this is most where the Italians of Boston, you know, reside.

00:27:26.400 I mean, even to this day, it's still very heavily Italian.

00:27:28.400 It's all Italian.

00:27:29.400 Yeah.

00:27:30.400 So, from a historic sense, you know, very tight roads.

00:27:32.400 This is Boston, by the way, guys, a bunch of one-way roads.

00:27:34.400 It's very difficult to drive in this area.

00:27:38.400 But, yeah, this is where they went ahead and found the headquarters, 98 Prince Street, right here, guys.

00:27:44.400 And they went ahead and bugged this thing up.

00:27:46.400 And they were able to take the Angulo family down. 1.00

00:27:49.400 But we're going to talk about that in a little bit more detail later on.

00:27:55.400 In the name of peace, Nee goes along with the plan.

00:27:59.400 We took everything over.

00:28:01.400 We went around to all the bookies, all the loan sharks, and said, you know, work for us.

00:28:05.400 Local boxing gyms supply Whitey Bulger with young new recruits.

00:28:10.400 And loan sharks, guys, are basically individuals who lend money at an extremely high interest rate,

00:28:15.400 damn near to a point where you won't be able to pay it back because they're incentivized to keep you in debt to them

00:28:20.400 so that they can go ahead and collect high interest rates from you while the principal basically never gets paid down. 0.93

00:28:25.400 Okay?

00:28:26.400 So that's what loan sharking was.

00:28:28.400 Expanding his operation.

00:28:30.400 And his job is made unexpectedly easier.

00:28:35.400 Think of hard money loans but with, you know, with a physical consequence if you don't pay the debt.

00:28:41.400 Violence suddenly erupts on the streets of South Boston.

00:28:44.400 Boston, the mid-1970s.

00:28:51.400 Fledgling kingpin James Whitey Bulger builds a criminal power base in South Boston.

00:28:57.400 But then a bombshell rocks the Southie community.

00:29:01.400 In June, 1974, a federal judge orders a forced integration of Boston schools.

00:29:09.400 Black and white children are bused to different neighborhoods.

00:29:12.400 It's a noble experiment in equality of opportunity.

00:29:18.400 But in Southie, busing ignites hostility.

00:29:23.400 You do not give the rights of any minority by sacrificing the rights of a majority.

00:29:31.400 It was a matter of fact that, you know, you were born and brought up in South Boston.

00:29:36.400 You had neighborhood schools that were two, three blocks away from you.

00:29:39.400 I have to leave my school so they can come in. 1.00

00:29:41.400 No, it's not happening.

00:29:43.400 I agree.

00:29:44.400 South Boston erupts in protest.

00:29:53.400 For some, busing is a turning point into a life of crime.

00:29:58.400 Kevin Weeks graduates from South Boston High just as busing begins.

00:30:03.400 In September, 1974, he takes a job as a security aide at his old school,

00:30:09.400 but soon gets sucked into the violence.

00:30:12.400 You know, I was supposed to be breaking up the fights, but when there was a fight,

00:30:15.400 I was right in the middle of it, you know, helping my friends.

00:30:23.400 Weeks stands by his friends and ends up in court, charged with assault.

00:30:29.400 Case is dismissed.

00:30:31.400 But as he leaves court, Weeks is spotted by Billy O'Neal, a local bar owner.

00:30:36.400 And that's when my life took on a whole different meaning.

00:30:42.400 Kevin Weeks is soon working as a bouncer at O'Neal's bar, then called Triple O's.

00:30:48.400 Legendary place where Whitey Bulger had a lot of his gang meetings, guys.

00:30:52.400 And this is it today.

00:30:53.400 This is Triple O Lounge today, guys.

00:30:55.400 You can see.

00:30:56.400 They changed it.

00:30:57.400 Okay.

00:30:58.400 Now it's called Fox Knife.

00:31:01.400 Okay.

00:31:02.400 As you guys can see, it says 30 there, but it used to be 28.

00:31:04.400 It used to actually be.

00:31:05.400 And I think this is for both addresses here.

00:31:08.400 So you got 30 right here.

00:31:10.400 And then this is 28.

00:31:12.400 And this is on West Broadway in South Boston.

00:31:16.400 Okay.

00:31:17.400 And you know that this is it because this building here used to be red.

00:31:19.400 But now it's, you know, they colored it and everything else like that.

00:31:22.400 But this is where the legendary Triple O's used to be, guys.

00:31:26.400 And you can actually tell from the photograph here.

00:31:28.400 That's it right there.

00:31:29.400 They switched it up, obviously.

00:31:31.400 But there was a building on top of it.

00:31:37.400 It's an establishment frequented by James Bulger.

00:31:40.400 Jim Bulger took an interest in me because of all the fights I was having.

00:31:44.400 And, you know, police would come in and I always just, you know, held my own with them.

00:31:49.400 You know, get my mouth shut and took care of whatever business I had.

00:31:55.400 During the mid-70s, Bulger begins using weeks as extra muscle in his shakedowns.

00:32:00.400 And very interestingly enough, this is what they used in the movie Black Mass in 1975.

00:32:06.400 And they actually, I think they went and did this, they shot this in Cambridge.

00:32:11.400 Because you can tell.

00:32:16.400 So here's Kevin Weeks, right?

00:32:18.400 Standing guard in front of Triple O's.

00:32:21.400 Yeah.

00:32:25.400 These guys show up.

00:32:26.400 Sorry, buddy.

00:32:27.400 I can't let you in.

00:32:28.400 Yeah, that's cool, man.

00:32:29.400 I'm friends with Jimmy.

00:32:30.400 Really?

00:32:31.400 Yeah.

00:32:32.400 You're with Jimmy?

00:32:33.400 Yeah.

00:32:34.400 Oh, I still can't let you in. 1.00

00:32:35.400 Who the fuck are you? 1.00

00:32:36.400 I'm a guy who works here. 1.00

00:32:39.400 You probably don't remember this, but you were here last Saturday night.

00:32:43.400 A few of your friends around 2 or 3 in the morning.

00:32:45.400 You took a piss up against the bar.

00:32:46.400 And that's frowned upon here. 0.99

00:32:49.400 But if you go down to Branigan's, just right down there, they'll let you take a shit in the middle of the floor if that's what you want to do. 0.97

00:32:59.400 But you can't do it here. 0.98

00:33:01.400 All right.

00:33:02.400 Yeah.

00:33:03.400 Okay?

00:33:04.400 Right here, we'll go.

00:33:05.400 Hey, look.

00:33:06.400 No hard feelings, okay? 0.99

00:33:08.400 I'm like, give away a fucking mean tie. 0.98

00:33:13.400 So Kevin was known for getting into fights. 0.99

00:33:15.400 In the fights.

00:33:16.400 Come on. 0.96

00:33:17.400 Step the fuck up. 0.92

00:33:18.400 Bam. 0.95

00:33:23.400 There's Whitey in the bar. 1.00

00:33:24.400 Let's fast forward.

00:33:26.400 Hey, that's all I'm saying.

00:33:28.400 I'm watching you. 0.98

00:33:29.400 Foot in your hole that is there. 0.91

00:33:31.400 Just don't do it again.

00:33:36.400 So they go outside to figure out.

00:33:39.400 You can see, there it is.

00:33:40.400 They remade it.

00:33:41.400 The trip blows.

00:33:46.400 The Budweiser sign on the side.

00:33:53.400 And like I said, they actually remade this situation in Cambridge, which is very interesting.

00:33:58.400 But the original is in South Boston, 28 West Broadway Street.

00:34:03.400 But let's go back to the documentary.

00:34:07.400 Together, they ruthlessly extort money from local bookmakers, all on behalf of Howie Winter, Boston's biggest Irish mobster.

00:34:17.400 There was a bookmaker almost in every bar room.

00:34:20.400 And guys, you got to remember with extortion, the way it works is when people are committing criminal activity, you can go ahead and collect the tax on that because they're committing criminal activity.

00:34:28.400 It's like they can go to the police like, hey, bro, they're extorting me for doing illegal gambling.

00:34:32.400 Well, you're going to get arrested for illegal gambling and selling drugs and all the other criminal stuff that you do.

00:34:36.400 So it's easy for criminals to pick on other criminals and get them to pay them extortion fees because you can't go to the police in those days.

00:34:45.400 And they'd put the horses during the daytime and they'd take the numbers.

00:34:49.400 And then at nighttime, they'd take the dogs.

00:34:53.400 One shakedown tactic is to create a problem, then offer a solution.

00:35:00.400 Creating a problem is very easy to do.

00:35:03.400 You know, if someone owned a bar or something, you know, you'd have people going to smash up the bar.

00:35:07.400 You know, you go to people afterwards and tell them, listen, so-and-so is trying to kill you. 0.99

00:35:12.400 They offered us $100,000 to kill you. 0.66

00:35:15.400 But if, you know, if you want, you can pay us and they won't bother you anymore. 0.99

00:35:19.400 So ingenious.

00:35:20.400 Go ahead and create a problem and then solve it.

00:35:22.400 And I got a perfect example of this actually right here.

00:35:25.400 This is a situation where Whitey Bulger and Kevin Weeks and Fleming, Stephen Fleming, a.k.a. the Rifleman Fleming, went ahead and extorted a liquor store.

00:35:36.400 Out to get.

00:35:37.400 In 1980, state police.

00:35:39.400 Hold on. What was the timestamp on that one?

00:35:41.400 It's right here.

00:35:44.400 Probably right around 12 minutes, I think.

00:35:49.400 For new digs to run their bookmaking and loan sharking deal.

00:35:53.400 They wanted a place with a legitimate business as their facade.

00:35:56.400 They found the perfect place, an old gas station being renovated into a liquor store, no matter if belonged to someone else.

00:36:18.400 Julie Dahmer's is only now talking about what happened to her and her then husband, Stephen Ricks, almost 20 years ago.

00:36:26.400 That's when the couple bought an old gas station and spent six months and $100,000 turning it into a family-run liquor store.

00:36:34.400 Their store, Stippo's, had only been open for a week.

00:36:39.400 Julie, pregnant with their third child, was alone at the store.

00:36:42.400 Stephen was home with their two other young children when Whitey Bulger, Stephen Fleming, and associate Kevin Weeks came knocking. 1.00

00:36:50.400 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:36:51.400 To those two guys, knocked on your home door. 1.00

00:36:55.400 They came in, and what did they say to Stephen Weeks?

00:36:58.400 They came into the kitchen and sat at the kitchen table and proposed a deal.

00:37:04.400 The first deal was that he was going to be partners with us in the liquor store because apparently some people had come to Whitey to put together a contract to kill my husband because supposedly the liquor store was a bad thing.

00:37:25.400 See, so there's a perfect example of what Kevin Weeks is telling y'all, right?

00:37:29.400 Like, hey, we would create a problem, come in, and then solve the problem that we created. 0.56

00:37:34.400 So in this case, yo, someone gave us a contract to kill your husband for $100,000. 0.87

00:37:37.400 We're here to save you, right? 0.99

00:37:39.400 Wink, wink.

00:37:40.400 But now we're business partners, so we're going to go ahead and take over this liquor shop as well.

00:37:45.400 And so Whitey came with a proposal to say that he'll be partners instead of killing them. 0.66

00:37:54.400 So when my husband called me and said, we're going to have a partner, and I, of course, I'm safe and sound at the store, not knowing what was going on, was diligent.

00:38:05.400 And we have no partners saying, no, we're not partners with anyone, especially not him.

00:38:11.400 Why would we be partners with him?

00:38:13.400 And he says, I'll call you back.

00:38:15.400 When Stephen Rakes called Julie back that night, there was a new deal.

00:38:19.400 Bolger, Flemmie, and Weeks were now the proprietors of Stippo's.

00:38:23.400 Whitey handed Stephen Rakes $67,000 in cash.

00:38:27.400 There was no negotiating.

00:38:29.400 And did Bolger and Flemmie leave any doubt in your mind, in Stephen's mind, that if you didn't go along with the deal, what would it mean for you?

00:38:39.400 When Whitey and Flemmie and Weeksie sat at my kitchen table, my youngest daughter was only 13 months at the time teething.

00:38:49.400 Waddled, crawled over, and Whitey Bolger put her up on his lap and allowed my daughter to teethe on the barrel of a gun. 1.00

00:38:59.400 And, of course, the conversation, whatever was going on, stopped.

00:39:03.400 And everyone observed that.

00:39:04.400 And Whitey just went, huh, be too bad you won't see her grow up. 1.00

00:39:09.400 So the picture was really clear that we would die, my children would die.

00:39:14.400 There was going to be no mercy.

00:39:16.400 And no mercy there was.

00:39:18.400 Bolger, Flemmie, and Weeks immediately moved into the store, changing its name to the South Boston Liquor Mart, running their illegal businesses from the back room.

00:39:28.400 So once this had happened, I mean, you're terrified, you're outraged at the same time.

00:39:33.400 What did you do?

00:39:34.400 Who did you tell?

00:39:35.400 We went to my uncle who was a- 0.98

00:39:38.400 So, guys, can you imagine that?

00:39:40.400 So this is back in, like, 1981 that they did this.

00:39:43.400 And $67,000, guys, in 1981 is the equivalent to purchasing power of about $218,000 today, right, which is crazy.

00:39:53.400 But mind you, keep in mind that they paid $100,000.

00:39:57.400 So basically, Whitey went ahead and got a pretty 40% discount on that thing. 0.81

00:40:02.400 Because $100,000 back then, let's see, was worth the purchasing power of about $325,000.

00:40:08.400 So he basically, you know, gave them a fraction of what they had paid, took over the business, and basically kicked them to the curb.

00:40:16.400 So that goes to show the type of individuals that you're dealing with, letting a baby teeth on the barrel of a gun.

00:40:22.400 And, yeah, you know, the guy was a G, man. 1.00

00:40:27.400 He was out here doing crazy shit like that. 0.96

00:40:29.400 So that's what Kevin Weeks means when he says that, you know, they created problems, and then they also came back and fixed them. 0.97

00:40:35.400 Hey, sorry, bro, I know you lost a million bucks, but I hope you go find it.

00:40:39.400 Okay, here we go.

00:40:40.400 Found it.

00:40:41.400 But you owe me $500,000 helping you find this one million.

00:40:44.400 And they always paid.

00:40:49.400 So we would create the problem and solve the problem.

00:40:52.400 And there really was no problem.

00:40:53.400 The problem was us.

00:40:56.400 Bulger and Weeks work at night and out of sight.

00:40:59.400 Their victims are usually members of the criminal fraternity.

00:41:04.400 By helping Bulger prey on local criminals, Weeks rapidly accumulates a sizable fortune.

00:41:11.400 It's like a bucket.

00:41:14.400 You put it up.

00:41:15.400 And, guys, just so you know, when they went ahead and extorted that liquor store, it was sometime in the early 90s because that documentary was from October 2001.

00:41:23.400 So, you know, you could say between, you know, 1980, between 1980 to like 1983, 1984, somewhere in that range, they went ahead and took over that liquor store.

00:41:32.400 Out in the rain.

00:41:33.400 And eventually all those little drops add up and it's full.

00:41:36.400 And we had so many different things going on that there was money coming in from every direction that we were getting rich.

00:41:45.400 Whitey Bulger's rival, Pat Knee, a former armed robber, is lured by the prospect of easy money and joins in.

00:41:53.400 The first time we collected the week's rent off all these guys, I was amazed at the amount of money involved.

00:42:03.400 I said, we've been in the wrong business all these years.

00:42:06.400 You just sit around all week and you get what the winners are at the end of the week.

00:42:10.400 There's no hijacking.

00:42:11.400 There's no guns.

00:42:12.400 There's no chasing trucks, trucks around.

00:42:14.400 You just sit someplace and make sure everyone pays up on time.

00:42:20.400 Knee remains wary of his new partner.

00:42:23.400 So they're basically just collecting a tax on everybody.

00:42:25.400 Because remember, the Irish mob ran, you know, all these rackets. 1.00

00:42:29.400 They'd get some money, push it up to the, you know, the leader of the Winter Hill gang.

00:42:33.400 And then they would and he would push up and pay money to the mafia who really control the whole area.

00:42:38.400 But, you know, the Irish mafia and the Italian mafias were able to coexist during this period of time because, you know, everybody was paying paying up.

00:42:46.400 There was not that much trust.

00:42:52.400 I was always wary.

00:42:54.400 He wasn't the kind of guy you could get comfortable with.

00:42:57.400 A lot of our guys like to have a good time.

00:42:59.400 Why he wasn't capable of doing that?

00:43:01.400 He didn't know how to interact with people, except on a business level.

00:43:07.400 And that was usually the scaring people or conning people.

00:43:11.400 I've only seen him out maybe once or twice at social events.

00:43:14.400 He was highly uncomfortable and left as quick as he could.

00:43:20.400 But James, he was an introvert.

00:43:22.400 And you guys are going to see why it was actually good that he was an introvert later on.

00:43:25.400 Whitey Bulger does befriend a young thug named Steve Flemmy.

00:43:29.400 Flemmy is half Italian, half Irish.

00:43:32.400 As an army veteran, he possesses a prowess with guns that earns him the nickname the Rifleman.

00:43:38.400 Stevie Flemmy wasn't a very nice person to be around.

00:43:43.400 There was just nothing there.

00:43:46.400 We'd be talking for an hour and he jumped back in the conversation where it originally started an hour ago.

00:43:51.400 I don't know where he went in his head, but he wasn't with us.

00:43:54.400 Him and Whitey seemed to understand each other though. 0.89

00:43:57.400 Quick little intro to Stephen Flemming.

00:44:00.400 OK, here he is right here.

00:44:02.400 Stephen Joseph Flemmy, born June 9, 1934, is an American gangster and convicted murderer and was a close associate Winter Hill gang boss.

00:44:10.400 Weddy Bulger, beginning in 1975, Flemmy was a top echelon informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, despite delivering a great deal of intelligence about the inner work is the Patrick Yarka crime family.

00:44:21.400 Flemmy's own criminal activities proved a public relations nightmare for the FBI.

00:44:24.400 He was ultimately brought up on charges under the RICO Act and pleaded guilty in return for a sentence of life in prison.

00:44:30.400 Yeah, because he had killed a bunch of people, guys.

00:44:33.400 With Flemmy's help, Bulger could still pose as a loyal member of the Winter Hill gang, discreetly murdering anyone who stands in his way.

00:44:43.400 They end up tying Bulger to about 19 murders, guys.

00:44:58.400 Based miles to the north in Somerville, Howie Winter continues to pocket his cut from the Southie Rackets, unaware of the growing Bulger menace. 1.00

00:45:06.400 He was very, very cute, the way he went about doing things, you know, I mean, and they were over there in South Boston, and I was going about my business, you know, and you'd hear that this guy was missing or something like that, and you wouldn't think anything of it, you know.

00:45:21.400 James Whitey Bulger wants to get to the top of Boston's Irish gangland. 0.62

00:45:27.400 By 1978, only Howie Winter stands in his way, yet Winter's luck is running out.

00:45:37.400 Winter participates in a race-fixing scheme at the horse tracks.

00:45:41.400 The gang bribes jockeys and dopes horses to get the results they want.

00:45:48.400 But a jockey is caught and soon spills the beans to the FBI.

00:45:52.400 His testimony helps send Howie Winter to jail for 10 years for racketeering.

00:46:01.400 Bulger and Flemmie.

00:46:03.400 And that right there.

00:46:04.400 FBI, open up!

00:46:05.400 They go ahead and take out the boss of the Winter Hill gang.

00:46:08.400 And now, this is the big transition period here.

00:46:11.400 Members of the gang walk free.

00:46:14.400 James Whitey Bulger takes over as boss.

00:46:18.400 Pat Knee is suspicious.

00:46:21.400 Whitey wasn't in that race-track-fixing scheme.

00:46:23.400 Him and Stevie got pulled out of it.

00:46:25.400 They should have been indicted, too.

00:46:27.400 They didn't.

00:46:28.400 Mmm.

00:46:29.400 Bulger and Flemmie avoid indictment because the FBI removes their names from the indictment list.

00:46:35.400 The reason why is astonishing.

00:46:39.400 Bulger and Flemmie, now two of the most powerful gangsters in Boston, are also both FBI informants.

00:46:46.400 Holy! 1.00

00:46:47.400 Oh, shit! 1.00

00:46:48.400 Oh, shit! 1.00

00:46:49.400 Oh, shit! 1.00

00:46:50.400 Oh, shit! 1.00

00:46:51.400 By the early 1980s. 1.00

00:46:52.400 By the early 1980s.

00:46:53.400 This gets into, you know, one part about Bulger that I thought he was very intelligent for utilizing his position as an informant to insulate himself from prosecution while simultaneously taking out competition.

00:47:03.400 So that, and that whole horse, that bookmaking scheme that they had where they were doping horses and cheating and fixing races, et cetera, to make a bunch of money.

00:47:12.400 Because remember, keep in mind, guys.

00:47:14.400 So think about this for a second.

00:47:15.400 Just so you guys got to get a full picture of how they were running this thing.

00:47:18.400 Like, you know, you got Whitey Bulger and you got Steve Flemmie.

00:47:23.400 You got a bunch of bookmakers, right, that are taking bets on horse racing, all right?

00:47:27.400 Taking a bunch of bets, taking a bunch of bets, which this is illegal.

00:47:29.400 So they're extorting those guys.

00:47:31.400 You got to pay me a cut of all the money that you're getting for this sports betting.

00:47:34.400 So they go ahead and get a cut of that.

00:47:36.400 Not only are they getting a cut from the bookmakers who are taking the bets, they also are involved of fixing the races and doping up the horses, paying off jockeys, all this other stuff, right?

00:47:47.400 Messing with the races so that they would, you know, ensure that certain people win so that they can go ahead and make more money.

00:47:54.400 So they were making money from that.

00:47:56.400 They're making money from extorting the bookkeepers.

00:47:58.400 And on top of that, they go ahead and cooperate with FBI and get this guy, the first guy from the Winter Hill Gang, the leader of the Winter Hill Gang at the time, who is Howard Winter.

00:48:10.400 He gets indicted and 75 is the main guy.

00:48:13.400 Meanwhile, Bulger and Flemmie do not get indicted, right?

00:48:17.400 And here they are going back to this organizational chart, right?

00:48:19.400 So you guys know what I'm talking about.

00:48:20.400 And I'll pull it up on screen one more time for you guys so that we can stay on track here.

00:48:25.400 Hold on, share screen.

00:48:28.400 This is it right here, guys, right?

00:48:31.400 Here's that organizational chart I was telling you about.

00:48:33.400 Here's Howard Winter right here.

00:48:34.400 He gets taken out.

00:48:35.400 And then Whitey and Flemmie are able to continue running the gambling business while extorting gamblers as well, right?

00:48:44.400 And they're making money from the races too.

00:48:47.400 And they're collecting taxes on everybody.

00:48:48.400 People that are selling dope, people that are doing bookkeeping, people that are extorting people.

00:48:52.400 They're, you know, doing protection rackets, as you guys can see.

00:48:55.400 They got the liquor store.

00:48:56.400 So they're making money hand over fist every single week, guys.

00:48:59.400 Okay.

00:49:00.400 Going crazy.

00:49:01.400 So, and they're providing information to the Bureau and protecting themselves.

00:49:06.400 James White.

00:49:08.400 So let's go ahead and back to the documentary, gentlemen.

00:49:13.400 Whitey Bulger has finally made himself undisputed king of Boston's Irish gangland. 0.73

00:49:22.400 But while he kills informants who ran on him, he himself is an FBI informant.

00:49:28.400 Whitey Bulger and his deputy, Steve Flemmie, are both part of the FBI's top echelon program.

00:49:39.400 Informant information is critically important in order to enhance public safety.

00:49:44.400 Michael Sullivan ran the Organized Crime Task Force guys in Boston at the time, back in the 80s, who was responsible for taking over the mafia.

00:49:52.400 Okay.

00:49:53.400 So he obviously was, you know, aware of Bulger being an informant to help them take down the mafia.

00:49:58.400 You look at identifying people in the organizational structure.

00:50:02.400 Anybody that might be able to assist law enforcement, you have to infiltrate that organization.

00:50:08.400 In Boston, busting the mafia, the city's oldest organized crime group.

00:50:15.400 And we're going to go ahead and play this little clip for you guys from the movie Black Mass of this alliance between Special Agent John Connolly,

00:50:23.400 who was the main case agent against the mafia, Jerry Angelo and them, and him and Bulger meeting.

00:50:30.400 You got two minutes.

00:50:33.400 I mean, I'm going to come right to it.

00:50:36.400 I have it on very good authority that Gennaro and Julio is planning to have you murdered.

00:50:45.400 Is that so?

00:50:47.400 And how does he plan to achieve that?

00:50:50.400 That's the kind of information that my side gets.

00:50:54.400 And that's the kind of information that we can provide.

00:50:57.400 John, do you know what I do to rats?

00:51:00.400 It ain't ratting, Jimmy.

00:51:02.400 It's an alliance.

00:51:04.400 It's an alliance between me and the FBI, between you and me.

00:51:11.400 I can help you, Jimmy.

00:51:13.400 And you can help me.

00:51:15.400 I'm not trying to clean up Southie. 1.00

00:51:17.400 I love this place.

00:51:19.400 I'm interested in the North End.

00:51:23.400 I'm interested in the...

00:51:25.400 Southie is Irish, right?

00:51:26.400 The Irish run a part of Boston.

00:51:28.400 And the North End is the Italian portion.

00:51:32.400 And guys, just so you know, John Connolly, okay, is from Southie.

00:51:36.400 Okay?

00:51:37.400 He was from Boston.

00:51:38.400 Him and James Bulger grew up together.

00:51:42.400 And his brother, William Bulger.

00:51:44.400 Okay?

00:51:45.400 So John Connolly knew Bulger.

00:51:48.400 And Bulger, guys, was kind of like a neighborhood folktale hero.

00:51:52.400 And John Connolly was actually getting bullied quite a bit as a kid.

00:51:58.400 And Southie and Bulger had actually gotten some bullies off of him.

00:52:02.400 So there was always a mutual respect between the two.

00:52:17.400 And there begins the alliance.

00:52:21.400 Now, in real life, guys, they actually met on a beach the first time.

00:52:24.400 And here's John Connolly right here, by the way.

00:52:27.400 Former special agent, right?

00:52:29.400 He ended up getting indicted later on for obstruction of justice, racketeering, a bunch of other stuff like that.

00:52:33.400 But this is him.

00:52:35.400 I think he's out of prison now.

00:52:37.400 He got out recently, like a year or two ago, if I'm not mistaken.

00:52:40.400 But we'll confirm that a little bit later.

00:52:42.400 Back to the documentary.

00:52:44.400 Is part of a national FBI priority.

00:52:52.400 The feds believe Whitey Bulger can help them bring the mob down.

00:52:57.400 The Boston Mafia is based in the city's Italian district, the North End.

00:53:03.400 A maze of bars and restaurants located just to the east of some of America's most important historical sites.

00:53:10.400 Whitey Bulger has a difficult relationship with the city's Italian mobsters.

00:53:16.400 And the North End, guys, just so you know, I'm very familiar with the North End because North Station, so I used to, when I was an intern, guys, remember I told you guys I used to work at the tip federal building when I was an intern.

00:53:27.400 That's in the North End of Boston because you've got to go into North Station.

00:53:30.400 I would take the green line in, or excuse me, I would take the orange line in from Ruggles, right, in Northeastern, take it to North Station.

00:53:40.400 And then I would, you know, get out and then the tip building was right there.

00:53:44.400 And actually, you know what, let's go down memory lane real quick.

00:53:46.400 This is going to bring back some pretty good memories of mine.

00:53:49.400 And I'll show you guys kind of what I mean by this because it's much easier if I show you.

00:53:53.400 So 10 Causeway Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

00:53:57.400 Okay.

00:53:58.400 So this right here, guys, was where your boy Myron Gaines used to go as an intern every single day.

00:54:03.400 All right.

00:54:04.400 So this is the Tip O'Neill Federal Building right here.

00:54:06.400 Okay.

00:54:07.400 Right here, 10 Causeway Street.

00:54:09.400 So I used to go in there when I was working for Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, because they have an office here.

00:54:14.400 And then they also have an office at the JFK Federal Building, which is right down the street that way.

00:54:19.400 But here, guys, if you look, is North Station right next door right here.

00:54:28.400 Oh, they switched it up.

00:54:29.400 It changed.

00:54:30.400 Yeah.

00:54:31.400 Wow.

00:54:32.400 It's so different now.

00:54:33.400 It's way nicer than it was.

00:54:34.400 But this is basically, you go through this way.

00:54:36.400 And I remember when I used to go home, this is, yeah, you go into here and you would be able to get into the T.

00:54:41.400 Right now, the north end, guys, is right here.

00:54:45.400 Right?

00:54:46.400 You keep walking down the street here.

00:54:47.400 Man, this brings back.

00:54:48.400 Oh, wow.

00:54:49.400 They switched it.

00:54:50.400 Oh, wow.

00:54:51.400 This is a whole mall now.

00:54:52.400 Yeah, they changed it.

00:54:53.400 This didn't exist before, guys.

00:54:54.400 No, it looked really creepy before.

00:54:55.400 Wow.

00:54:56.400 Okay.

00:54:57.400 But yeah, this is where the Celtics play, guys.

00:54:58.400 This area right here.

00:54:59.400 And the Bruins.

00:55:00.400 Yes.

00:55:01.400 And the Bruins as well.

00:55:02.400 Right?

00:55:03.400 So you come over here, right?

00:55:08.400 And then this right here, guys, gets you into the north end, all right?

00:55:18.400 Yeah, this brings back good memories.

00:55:21.400 Because I remember sometimes for lunch, I would go up this way to get pizza.

00:55:28.400 Okay?

00:55:29.400 And just so y'all know where we are.

00:55:30.400 So this is the north end right around here.

00:55:42.400 All right?

00:55:43.400 And this is next to where, you know, the mafia used to run all their businesses, guys.

00:55:49.400 But you can see, it's not far from, you know, where I used to work, man.

00:55:52.400 This is the, you know, they call the north station for a reason.

00:55:55.400 And this is where the Celtics would play.

00:55:57.400 And this is crazy.

00:55:58.400 This whole building here is brand new.

00:55:59.400 And that did not exist when I was there.

00:56:01.400 There's TD Garden right there where they would play.

00:56:03.400 Right?

00:56:04.400 And I'd take the T right there.

00:56:06.400 And or if I didn't take the T, guys, I would come in this way.

00:56:10.400 I'll show you guys the route that I used to take. 0.91

00:56:12.400 This is so fucking crazy looking at this.

00:56:14.400 Yeah, it's changed a lot. 0.97

00:56:15.400 It's changed a lot.

00:56:16.400 But this is a lot of fun going down memory lane.

00:56:19.400 It's a lot of bars now.

00:56:20.400 It's like, so I used to go ahead guys and come through store or drive.

00:56:24.400 Right? So when it was cold, I'll take the train, but right.

00:56:29.400 When I was writing, when I was in college, right.

00:56:32.400 And I would like, cause I would come after practice.

00:56:34.400 So this was my day guys. Right?

00:56:35.400 So I wake up at five o'clock in the morning.

00:56:37.400 I'd go to practice, which is all the way on soldiers soldiers road by Harvard stadium.

00:56:43.400 Okay.

00:56:44.400 Damn near it was Watertown essentially. 0.95

00:56:46.400 So I would come from over here. 0.95

00:56:49.400 Right. And I remember, yep.

00:56:50.400 I would come from over here and this brings you pretty much to close to start drive.

00:56:57.400 So I would ride my bike right in from this area here every day.

00:57:03.400 This was, you know, from pretty much the entire fall, right?

00:57:06.400 Until it started snowing.

00:57:07.400 Then I would stop.

00:57:08.400 Cause it would be too cold to ride a bike and my little, uh, specialized.

00:57:11.400 Why was that so far though?

00:57:13.400 Like it.

00:57:14.400 Oh, why the boathouse?

00:57:15.400 I was at so far.

00:57:16.400 Yeah.

00:57:17.400 Cause that's, that's where, that's where they had it.

00:57:18.400 Even though I went to school at Northeastern.

00:57:20.400 Yeah.

00:57:21.400 The boathouse was all the way over there.

00:57:23.400 And then here's the, uh, here's the, is this the aquarium over here?

00:57:26.400 I think it's the aquarium.

00:57:27.400 And then here's a, uh, yeah, here's a state police barrack right here.

00:57:31.400 And then bam, here's star drive.

00:57:33.400 And I would ride this right.

00:57:34.400 I would take this thing all the way down back into the city.

00:57:37.400 Right.

00:57:38.400 We're back into like downtown, but I would take this, this route every day, guys.

00:57:42.400 It would be fricking.

00:57:43.400 Oh yeah.

00:57:44.400 That makes sense.

00:57:45.400 Oh man.

00:57:46.400 Yeah.

00:57:47.400 Cause and you go all the way here, star drive. 1.00

00:57:49.400 I would go all the way back to shit, man. 0.99

00:57:54.400 Let me, let me, let me zoom out a bit. 1.00

00:57:57.400 Zoom out. 0.98

00:57:58.400 And star drive is like a bitch to like drive. 1.00

00:58:00.400 Yeah. 0.97

00:58:01.400 It's a pain so much.

00:58:02.400 Yeah.

00:58:03.400 Right around here.

00:58:04.400 I ride my bike from like right around this area here, right?

00:58:07.400 Harvard area, soldiers field road right here.

00:58:09.400 Okay.

00:58:10.400 All the way here to the tip building every day.

00:58:15.400 See that bike?

00:58:16.400 Look at that bike ride, man. 1.00

00:58:17.400 That's shit crazy. 1.00

00:58:18.400 I would never. 0.99

00:58:19.400 Matter of fact, you know what?

00:58:20.400 Will it let me do directions?

00:58:21.400 Yeah.

00:58:22.400 How do I do that?

00:58:23.400 Just type in.

00:58:24.400 Press, um, put directions.

00:58:27.400 Oh yeah.

00:58:28.400 Directions.

00:58:29.400 Starting point.

00:58:30.400 Uh, I'll just put here.

00:58:32.400 Northeastern.

00:58:37.400 Boathouse, Henderson Boathouse.

00:58:39.400 Let me try it.

00:58:40.400 You know what?

00:58:41.400 Ender.

00:58:42.400 Oh, I know.

00:58:43.400 Okay.

00:58:44.400 Now I know.

00:58:45.400 Yeah.

00:58:46.400 Henderson Boathouse, soldiers field road.

00:58:47.400 That's, that's the Northeastern Boathouse.

00:58:48.400 So I used to make this guys.

00:58:49.400 This was my bike ride every day.

00:58:53.400 Cycling six miles, six to 6.4 miles.

00:58:55.400 I would make that bike ride every single day.

00:58:58.400 Guys going to from practice here.

00:59:02.400 All the way to north station right here, which is where 10 Causeway street was.

00:59:06.400 And then this is the north end, this whole area right here.

00:59:09.400 Okay.

00:59:10.400 And that's where the mafia was operating back then.

00:59:12.400 A lot of good pizza shops out there though.

00:59:14.400 So anyway, memory lane.

00:59:17.400 Always very nice to go down.

00:59:19.400 I saw the relationship was, I don't know how to put it.

00:59:25.400 Maybe an uneasy truce.

00:59:26.400 You know, I don't think either side really trusted the other side.

00:59:31.400 The problem stems from the mob supremacy in the city.

00:59:36.400 The Boston mafia is backed by New England crime boss, Raymond Patriarca.

00:59:41.400 The connection makes the Boston mafia potentially dangerous.

00:59:48.400 Mafia has a lot of teeth. 0.66

00:59:50.400 You know, they can bite you from any direction.

00:59:53.400 See how the mafia is dangerous.

00:59:55.400 This is the family that they were talking about guys.

00:59:56.400 Here's the Patriarca crime family.

00:59:58.400 Uh, also known as the New England mafia, the Boston mafia, the Providence mafia, or the office

01:00:03.400 in the time, a mafia family in New England.

01:00:05.400 It is, has two distinct factions.

01:00:07.400 One based in Providence, Rhode Island, and the other in Boston, Massachusetts.

01:00:09.400 The family is currently led by Carmen, the cheese man didn't news.

01:00:12.400 The news, who is part of the Boston faction.

01:00:15.400 The family is primarily active in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut with other territory

01:00:18.400 throughout New England.

01:00:21.400 And the Anjulos ran Boston. 0.68

01:00:26.400 Before going to jail in 1977, Irish gang boss Howie Winter works to coexist with the Italian mafia.

01:00:37.400 If someone wanted to operate in an area, we'd make sure that we were not stepping on any of their toes,

01:00:42.400 and that way we always got along real good with them.

01:00:46.400 And if someone did operate in an area, we would always go to them and tell them, you know,

01:00:51.400 nine out of ten times they would say that's fine, you know.

01:00:54.400 So under his reign, you know, there was peace between the mafia, the Italian mafia and the Irish mafia.

01:01:01.400 But he gets arrested, you know, for rigging horse races.

01:01:05.400 So let's see what happens next.

01:01:07.400 But Bolger resents having to cater to the mafia.

01:01:11.400 Remember, the mafia controls everything, so he's got to pay up to them. 1.00

01:01:14.400 What the fuck? Why am I paying these guys, you know, our money? 0.99

01:01:17.400 Like, this is BS.

01:01:18.400 But obviously, back then, guys, in the 70s, the mafia ran everything, right?

01:01:21.400 In New England, in New York, in Vegas, in Florida.

01:01:25.400 They're running everything.

01:01:26.400 And if you didn't cooperate with the mafia, you were going to get killed if you didn't pay your dues.

01:01:30.400 But Bolger didn't want to pay.

01:01:32.400 So when the FBI reaches out to Bolger and Flemmie, they decide to cooperate.

01:01:41.400 For them, it's a golden opportunity to use federal help to bring down a major rival.

01:01:47.400 But there's also an added bonus.

01:01:50.400 Protection from investigation.

01:01:52.400 Oh, now you're talking.

01:01:55.400 Bolger's like, wait, you're telling me that I can provide information on my competition while simultaneously not going to jail and making more money?

01:02:02.400 Sign me up.

01:02:05.400 Under the top echelon program, the FBI can shield informants from the police as a way of keeping them on the street.

01:02:14.400 Normally, the FBI and local law enforcement routinely share details of their organized crime operations.

01:02:22.400 But in Whitey Bolger's case, the disclosure is strictly one way.

01:02:28.400 There is no obligation, certainly, to share information.

01:02:31.400 There's nothing within our rules or within our law that requires that to happen.

01:02:37.400 But good law enforcement practices would suggest that there should be some communication between the law enforcement agencies.

01:02:45.400 In this case, such communication doesn't happen.

01:02:49.400 The FBI does not reveal Bolger's informant status to the local cops.

01:02:55.400 Whitey Bolger is occasionally captured on Boston police surveillance cameras.

01:03:00.400 Unaware of the extent of his crimes, the city cops consider him a small time selfie hood.

01:03:06.400 So the state police and the Boston Police Department was looking at Whitey Bolger guys back then as well. 1.00

01:03:11.400 But since Bolger was cooperating with the FBI, FBI didn't want to let them know that he was an informant, which, you know, I'll be honest with you guys.

01:03:18.400 When I was working on the job. Right.

01:03:20.400 A lot of time, if an agency had someone as an informant, that was a criminal as well.

01:03:23.400 A lot of the times, unless they're working in a joint investigation with you, they would not tell you that their guy was an informant because obviously that can cause issues. Right.

01:03:30.400 So they were more focused on the Italian mafia and not the Irish mafia.

01:03:34.400 Is that right? No. You know, I genuinely do think that, you know, when you work with other agencies, you need to be transparent and have full disclosure.

01:03:47.400 But, hey, this shit happens a lot of times on the job. 0.72

01:03:50.400 So in 1980, when Bolger is spotted at a garage near the north end, far from his home turf, the local cops take an interest. 0.98

01:03:59.400 And I'll show you guys exactly what it what they mean by this. OK.

01:04:03.400 And nowadays, guys, there's a bunch of methodologies. Right.

01:04:05.400 With deconfliction, something called deconfliction now exists where, you know, if you're looking at a target, you put that person's name in.

01:04:11.400 And then if someone else puts that name in, then they'll go ahead and they'll connect you this like service.

01:04:16.400 And then you go ahead and you speak to that law enforcement officer, whether they work for DEA, FBI, whatever it may be.

01:04:21.400 And you're able to kind of deconflict and figure out what's going on here.

01:04:23.400 So there are a bunch of instruments now put in place to kind of help fix this problem with people working the same guy.

01:04:32.400 But one state police were out to get.

01:04:35.400 In 1980, state police stumbled on Whitey Bulger's headquarters, a garage on Lancaster Street near the old garden, which is literally right next to where I just showed you guys where the tip building is.

01:04:45.400 I used to walk back and forth on this street to, you know, deliver paperwork and stuff because they had two different federal buildings.

01:04:50.400 You had the Tip O'Neill Federal Building and then the JFK Federal Building down the street.

01:04:54.400 So I had to walk down Lancaster Street every single day as an intern, man.

01:04:58.400 Around the same time, the Angelo's headquarters were about to be bugged by the FBI.

01:05:03.400 The state police figured it was the perfect opportunity to drop a few bugs on Whitey and Stephen Fleming.

01:05:10.400 Or so they thought.

01:05:16.400 State police did not know Whitey Bulger was an informant for the FBI.

01:05:21.400 All they knew was the guy was trouble.

01:05:24.400 And what they did is that there's a rooming house.

01:05:27.400 It was once a rooming house across the street.

01:05:29.400 They took a room.

01:05:30.400 And for the next several months, they went up there, a team of state troopers, and were clicking away with their cameras to develop their investigation and the probable cause to do a bug over here.

01:05:42.400 And they just had this wonderful photo album of Whitey, Stevie doing business here.

01:05:47.400 Mafia figures, the Angelo brothers coming over for meetings, standing in the garage bays, talking.

01:05:52.400 And it was, you know, very rich investigative material.

01:05:57.400 And whatever happened with the evidence that the state police collective that was going on here?

01:06:01.400 Well, it all folded.

01:06:03.400 I mean, it did now stand as one of the big leaks and one of the big failures in the efforts to chase Whitey Bulger.

01:06:09.400 Again, this is 1980.

01:06:10.400 And what happened was, after these weeks and months of developing the probable cause to get a judge to approve a bug, the state troopers put the bugs in here.

01:06:18.400 And Whitey and Fleming knew about them right away.

01:06:21.400 Somebody told them.

01:06:22.400 That's right.

01:06:23.400 Indeed, someone.

01:06:24.400 Indeed, someone.

01:06:25.400 There's John Connolly right there.

01:06:26.400 This iconic picture is when he actually arrested one of the Angelo brothers.

01:06:30.400 And I'll show you guys this photo here in full.

01:06:32.400 Had told them.

01:06:33.400 And authorities think that someone was FBI agent John Connolly.

01:06:38.400 Meanwhile, even though Bulger had dodged a bullet, he abandoned Lancaster Street.

01:06:44.400 Now that Winther Hill.

01:06:45.400 All right, let's go back.

01:06:46.400 That's how much the FBI wanted the mafia man.

01:06:50.400 They didn't even care how, you know, they didn't care about anything else except for getting them back then.

01:06:56.400 They were priority number one back in the 70s and 80s.

01:07:01.400 A Massachusetts State Police surveillance team gets these pictures of Bulger meeting with mob boss Jerry Angelo's brother.

01:07:09.400 When the FBI is informed, the meetings stop.

01:07:14.400 It's part of a review.

01:07:16.400 Here's the photo that they were talking about.

01:07:17.400 Here's John Connolly right here, guys, with Jerry Angelo right here after they arrested him.

01:07:23.400 This photo right here.

01:07:24.400 This photo right here.

01:07:31.400 Heating pattern.

01:07:32.400 Every time the state cops have Bulger under surveillance and informed me.

01:07:36.400 So he was meeting with them to gather information for John Connolly so that they can go ahead and bug up 98 Prince Street, which I showed you guys before.

01:07:43.400 Right here. That's why he was meeting with these guys in the north end to get that information and give it back to John Connolly.

01:07:49.400 At the same time, John Connolly didn't want the state police and the Boston Police Department to go ahead and arrest his informant because he was trying to build a case on the mafia.

01:07:58.400 OK, so it's a shame that they work together and just, you know, put this put this together.

01:08:02.400 But, you know, this happens a lot, guys, where agencies don't share information and issues like this arise.

01:08:07.400 The FBI. Bulger stops talking openly.

01:08:11.400 We had numerous, you know, wiretaps going and bugs, you know, throughout the city.

01:08:16.400 But if it started moving over towards Bulger and Flemmie's group, oftentimes those investigations were being compromised.

01:08:26.400 It was kind of clear that there was something happening, that it was some kind of relationship that was not allowing investigations to be conducted on them.

01:08:38.400 The state cops come to suspect that Bulger is under FBI protection.

01:08:43.400 But now they accuse the feds of alerting Bulger when local law enforcement is watching him.

01:08:49.400 And that's more than protection. It's corruption.

01:08:52.400 That's when we started to run into a little bit of conflict with with some of the people in the FBI.

01:09:00.400 Now, let me tell you guys how you're supposed to address situations like this normally in the field.

01:09:04.400 So if you got an informant, right, and they're they're gathering information for you and then you find out that another agency is looking at that individual.

01:09:14.400 Right. You got to have a meeting with those people and let them know, listen, man, this guy's working for me.

01:09:19.400 You know, we're gathering information on this investigation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:09:23.400 This is what we got going on.

01:09:25.400 And, you know, they conflicted and, you know, work together.

01:09:29.400 But here with the FBI, the mistake the FBI did was John Connolly probably didn't want to share information with the state police and the and the Boston Police Department.

01:09:36.400 And it ended up, you know, putting them in a bad situation because they were going ahead trying to build a case against Bolger.

01:09:42.400 Right. And they didn't know that he was an informant for the FBI at the time.

01:09:47.400 So they're looking at it like, oh, what the fuck? Why is it that every time we actually get this kind of surveillance or whatever the hell, you know, he stops showing up, he stops using phone lines, whatever it may be. 0.94

01:09:56.400 But there was other issues at bay here, which you guys are going to find out later on.

01:10:01.400 But normally in a situation like this, if you have an informant and they're, you know, getting looked at by another agency for their criminal activity, because to be honest here, informants are criminals themselves.

01:10:11.400 That's why they're able to give you such good information.

01:10:14.400 You're supposed to meet with that other agency, contact them, communicate, let them know what's going on and bring them on in the case or share information, whatever it may be.

01:10:21.400 And, you know, take it down together. But the problem here with the bureau is that they didn't want to share information with the state police and the Boston Police Department, which is going to cause problems.

01:10:28.400 And you're going to see why here in a second. So John Connolly fucked up their stupid by not involving the other agencies. 0.99

01:10:36.400 So there would be some transparency. Now, do they have to share information? They don't. 0.99

01:10:40.400 You know, a lot of the times agencies won't want to share information for certain reasons.

01:10:44.400 But, you know, this this was this was a situation where they should have.

01:10:51.400 At the height of the growing conflict between the state police and FBI, Robert Fitzpatrick is appointed deputy chief of the Boston FBI office. 0.93

01:11:03.400 I was told that I had to go up there, kick some ass and take names because the office did have a problem. 0.81

01:11:11.400 But I wasn't really told specifically what the problem was. 0.99

01:11:18.400 Fitzpatrick interviews Bulger personally.

01:11:21.400 He wants to check out how much the.

01:11:23.400 OK, so you guys are probably wondering what the hell is the assistant special agent in charge?

01:11:26.400 So let me describe this structure to you guys real quick so that this makes sense.

01:11:29.400 So you got the special agent was John Connolly, right?

01:11:31.400 He's the actual case agent running the investigation.

01:11:33.400 Then above him, you got something called the supervisory special agent.

01:11:36.400 OK, that was John Morris at the time.

01:11:38.400 OK, he's the one signing off on things, making sure that Connolly gets what he needs to go ahead and do his case.

01:11:43.400 Then on top of John Morris is the assistant special agent in charge or ASAC, also known as.

01:11:48.400 So they call it SSA is a supervisory special agent and SSA is a special agent, supervisory special agent, SSA.

01:11:54.400 And then you got ASAC assistant special agent in charge.

01:11:56.400 So that's what Fitzpatrick was in this situation.

01:11:58.400 So he came in and he over started overseeing this investigation as ASAC.

01:12:02.400 And this is where he comes in. That's what he's talking about.

01:12:05.400 The Irish mobster really knows about the Italian mafia.

01:12:09.400 The meeting does not go well.

01:12:12.400 My gut visceral reaction was, well, you know, who's this guy?

01:12:18.400 He's got this tough guy stance, talk about tough guy stuff.

01:12:21.400 And it's I, I, I. What I did, I did this, I did that.

01:12:25.400 But nothing what he's doing for the FBI.

01:12:27.400 You know, what are you doing for me?

01:12:30.400 I know what you do, but what are you doing for me?

01:12:33.400 Fitzpatrick recommends that Bulger's informant status be terminated.

01:12:39.400 This would make him fair game for any local police investigation.

01:12:43.400 But Bulger has friends inside the FBI.

01:12:46.400 Bulger's FBI handler is agent John Connolly.

01:12:50.400 Above him is supervisor John Morris.

01:12:53.400 When Fitzpatrick talks to Morris about terminating Bulger,

01:12:57.400 he gets a surprising response.

01:13:00.400 I says, we're going to close this guy.

01:13:03.400 And Morris looked at me, he says, no, you're not.

01:13:06.400 And I got a little angry, to be honest with you.

01:13:09.400 And I looked at him, I says, what do you mean?

01:13:11.400 He says, you'll never close, Bulger.

01:13:13.400 Morris is proven right. 0.92

01:13:16.400 He and Connolly persuade their FBI superiors that Bulger's intelligence on the mafia is too valuable to lose.

01:13:24.400 Fitzpatrick remains unconvinced.

01:13:27.400 I'm hitting a blank wall here.

01:13:32.400 And I'm beginning to think that something's wrong.

01:13:37.400 So Fitzpatrick, guys, actually ended up testifying for Whitey Bulger's defense at Whitey Bulger's trial back in 2013.

01:13:46.400 And he went ahead and got indicted for perjury.

01:13:50.400 OK, guys, here's the press article right here.

01:13:52.400 Former assistant special agent in charge sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice during Bulger trial.

01:13:57.400 So specifically, Fitzpatrick admitted that contrary to a sworn testimony at the Bulger trial,

01:14:03.400 his assignment to the FBI in 1980, his ASAC was not special mission ordered by the special assistant director of the FBI

01:14:09.400 because there were problems in office, but rather a routine reassignment.

01:14:12.400 Bulger never said, I'm not an informant, otherwise denied being an informant when he met with Fitzpatrick.

01:14:16.400 Fitzpatrick never tried to close Bulger as an informed FBI informant.

01:14:19.400 Fitzpatrick was demoted from ASAC because he falsified official FBI reports in connection with a shooting incident,

01:14:25.400 not because he reported corruption. Fitzpatrick did not arrest mob boss Gennaro and Julo.

01:14:30.400 And Fitzpatrick did not find or recover the rightful James Earl Ray used to assassinate Dr.

01:14:34.400 Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Hode Motel in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.

01:14:38.400 So he ended up getting indicted himself for fraud.

01:14:45.400 OK, so he's no angel himself.

01:14:49.400 And and he wrote a book, actually, Fitzpatrick was the author of Betrayal.

01:14:54.400 Whitey Bulger, an FBI agent who fought to bring him down, was called to testify at the Bulger trial on July 29th and July 30th, 2013.

01:15:00.400 And pleading guilty, Fitzpatrick admitted that he lied when he testified at Bulger's trial,

01:15:03.400 that he tried to end Bulger's relationship with the FBI and target Bulger for prosecution,

01:15:07.400 but was overruled by higher authorities and the FBI.

01:15:09.400 So they went ahead and got him for trying to say that he was a whistleblower when he really wasn't.

01:15:15.400 OK, so just for full transparency there, Fitzpatrick right there is definitely no cap right there.

01:15:21.400 Fitzpatrick's suspicions grow when one day Conley invites him to a meeting at this building, the Massachusetts.

01:15:27.400 So now that we know that he isn't really honest, let's keep moving forward.

01:15:31.400 Close ties with the Bulger family. Both grew up in South Boston.

01:15:35.400 OK, so there's James Conley and there's a John Conley. Sorry.

01:15:39.400 And there's William Bulger, John James, Whitey Bulger's brother. 0.54

01:15:43.400 Both live in the same neighborhood.

01:15:45.400 Fitzpatrick thinks that maybe the federal agent is trying to win favor from the state Senate president by protecting his criminal brother.

01:15:52.400 I began to see that, whoa, this guy.

01:15:56.400 Local streets.

01:15:58.400 We had to do our job and let the chips fall where they fall.

01:16:13.400 And that's what we focused on.

01:16:15.400 You know, we knew they had killed people.

01:16:18.400 How much more are we going to let that go on?

01:16:21.400 But for the moment, the Bulger crime spree continues. 0.98

01:16:26.400 As local police try to get closer, Bulger embarks on a criminal adventure that will make headlines around the world.

01:16:38.400 By the mid 1980s, James Whitey Bulger seems to be above the law.

01:16:44.400 He and sidekick Steve Fleming are covert FBI informants.

01:16:49.400 In turn, they receive protection from police investigators.

01:16:54.400 But senior FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick senses Bulger's FBI handlers are doing more than protecting him.

01:17:01.400 They're tipping him off.

01:17:03.400 Somehow the bad guys, the wise guys, are finding out what we're doing.

01:17:09.400 And that information may in fact be coming from FBI agents.

01:17:14.400 At the height of his power, Bulger embarks on a venture that will extend his influence far beyond the city of Boston.

01:17:23.400 All the way to the land of his ancestors, Ireland.

01:17:29.400 Since the late 1970s, Pat Knee, once Bulger's bitter enemy, has devoted himself to a cherished cause.

01:17:37.400 Enter Irish IRA. 0.87

01:17:40.400 The IRA's war against Great Britain.

01:17:44.400 Okay, you guys are probably wondering, what the hell is the IRA?

01:17:47.400 Let's go ahead and break this bad boy down real quick for y'all.

01:17:50.400 Irish Republican Army, okay?

01:17:52.400 The Irish Republican Army IRA is a name used by various paramilitary organizations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

01:17:58.400 Organizations by this name have been dedicated to irrendantism through the Irish Republicanism.

01:18:05.400 Okay, what does that mean?

01:18:06.400 I've never heard that word before.

01:18:07.400 It's the doctrine of political or popular movements that claim and seek to occupy usually territory considered lost or unredeemed to the nation.

01:18:15.400 Okay, cool.

01:18:16.400 The belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic free from British rule.

01:18:21.400 The original Irish Republican Army, 1919 to 1922, often now referred to as the old IRA, was raised in 1917 from members of the Irish Volunteers in the Irish Citizen Army,

01:18:31.400 later reinforced by Irishmen formerly in the British Army in World War I who returned to Ireland to fight against Britain in the Irish War of Independence.

01:18:39.400 An Irish law of the IRA was the Army of the Revolutionary Irish Republic as declared by its parliament, Dale Irene in 1919, okay?

01:18:47.400 So, fighting against British rule.

01:18:51.400 I grew up in a small little town of Ireland.

01:18:54.400 My family's political beliefs, they were Republicans in the Irish sense of the word.

01:19:00.400 We really did feel that the British had no place in Northern Ireland and we could do whatever we could to help.

01:19:08.400 In 1974, Knee begins running guns to the IRA.

01:19:14.400 Every year, they'd start coming on what we call shopping lists and the shopping lists became larger.

01:19:21.400 Bulger offers to help.

01:19:24.400 He and Knee begin raising money for guns from an unlikely source, Boston's drug dealers.

01:19:31.400 We took money off drug dealers locally.

01:19:34.400 We had very little respect for most of them.

01:19:36.400 It's what we call a soft shake.

01:19:38.400 You know, it's either help us or be our enemy.

01:19:41.400 The choice is yours.

01:19:43.400 But the IRA's demands keep growing.

01:19:46.400 The shopping lists grew our commitment group and then they came with the big shopping lists.

01:19:52.400 In 1984, the IRA asks for one of the biggest shipments yet.

01:19:58.400 We get 60,000 rounds of ammo.

01:20:01.400 Rifles, shotguns, pistols.

01:20:04.400 Drug money buys the guns.

01:20:07.400 And drug dealers supply a vessel.

01:20:10.400 The Valhalla.

01:20:15.400 Answer McIntyre.

01:20:17.400 The Valhalla sets sail in September 1984.

01:20:22.400 The plan is to unload its deadly cargo onto an Irish ship and then return to Boston. 0.94

01:20:28.400 But things go wrong when Irish police bust the shipment.

01:20:34.400 The operation to unload the massive arsenal started around dawn.

01:20:39.400 This afternoon, the weapons and packing cases were loaded onto army lorries.

01:20:43.400 The Valhalla makes it back to Boston and straight into the hands of U.S. Customs.

01:20:53.400 In the United States, customs officers have seized an American trawler, the Valhalla, on suspicion of gun running for the IRA.

01:21:01.400 Customs agents seize the boat and take the crew into custody, including John McIntyre, a marijuana smuggler.

01:21:08.400 McIntyre is questioned, then released.

01:21:11.400 By the DEA.

01:21:13.400 Bulger suspects McIntyre is cooperating with the authorities.

01:21:17.400 We heard that one of the two people that were on that boat were cooperating with law enforcement.

01:21:22.400 Jim decided that it was possibly McIntyre.

01:21:26.400 So we devised a plan to have him come in and find out exactly if it was him that was cooperating.

01:21:32.400 Weeks lures McIntyre to this South Boston house, then owned by a Bulger associate, with a party invitation. 0.96

01:21:44.400 It's a trap.

01:21:45.400 Under Bulger's relentless interrogation, McIntyre reveals that he's told the cops about the Valhalla.

01:21:56.400 As Bulger's partners, Steve Flemmi and Kevin Weeks look on, Bulger discovers more.

01:22:02.400 The terrified seaman reveals key details of Boston's drug trade.

01:22:08.400 When Whitey Bulger's heard enough, he makes a fateful decision.

01:22:18.400 Jim Bulger decided that he couldn't trust McIntyre. 0.86

01:22:22.400 So he killed him. 0.99

01:22:24.400 And he decided to shoot him, so he shot him in the head. 0.98

01:22:28.400 If he was still alive, they shot him both times in the face and killed him.

01:22:35.400 Now, I'll go show you guys the scene that they got from the movie Black Mass of how he killed McIntyre.

01:22:40.400 So they lure him to the house thinking it's a party, right?

01:22:42.400 Which they showed that in the movie.

01:22:43.400 But this is what the movie showed here.

01:22:45.400 It's in Spanish. 1.00

01:22:49.400 Let me see if I can hit this goddamn thing. 1.00

01:22:51.400 How did you get it in Spanish? 0.99

01:22:52.400 Yeah, I don't know.

01:22:53.400 They got it in some other language, but you guys go with saying it.

01:22:57.400 Are you sure it's Spanish?

01:22:58.400 I couldn't get it in English.

01:23:04.400 I don't like moving it in Spanish.

01:23:06.400 At least I don't get it in freaking copyright here. 0.91

01:23:10.400 So I beat the crap out of him. 0.95

01:23:18.400 Is this Spanish? 0.99

01:23:19.400 This is Italian.

01:23:20.400 It's Italian.

01:23:21.400 It's Italian?

01:23:22.400 Spanish and Italian are kind of like the same.

01:23:25.400 Not fully, but.

01:23:26.400 So in the movie, he chokes him. 0.99

01:23:32.400 But the normal way they would kill him, guys, is they kill and then they pull their teeth out. 0.85

01:23:38.400 Because remember, this is before DNA. 0.99

01:23:39.400 So people wouldn't be able to identify them.

01:23:42.400 Basically, we just took them and we dug a hole and buried the body.

01:23:47.400 Cleaned up and went home.

01:23:49.400 Flemmie yanks the teeth to hide McIntyre's identity.

01:23:57.400 In those days, they didn't have the DNA evidence.

01:24:00.400 So one of the techniques for identifying bodies was dental records.

01:24:05.400 And that's where the teeth were pulled.

01:24:08.400 This is not the only person who falls victim to Bulger.

01:24:12.400 Bulger is on a murderous rampage.

01:24:14.400 By 1986, U.S. Customs ties some of the Valhalla's guns to the man who bought them, Pat Knee.

01:24:27.400 Knee gets four years in jail.

01:24:29.400 He says nothing about Whitey Bulger's involvement.

01:24:34.400 But dramatic events in Boston's North End District signal a change in Bulger's fortunes.

01:24:41.400 In 1986, the FBI finally busts the leadership of the Boston Mafia.

01:24:47.400 Local Chief Jerry Angiulo is jailed for a staggering 45 years on assorted charges of racketeering. 0.99

01:24:54.400 A year later, he's like, fuck the FBI. 0.97

01:24:58.400 His consigliere, Larry Zanino, gets 30 years for similar crimes. 0.99

01:25:05.400 But that's off of information that Whitey Bulger provided telling the FBI where the house was, right?

01:25:11.400 We talked about this earlier, 98 Prince Street out there in the North End.

01:25:15.400 Bulger's informant status is suddenly under threat.

01:25:18.400 John Connolly, his handler, tries everything he can to link Bulger's name to the bust.

01:25:25.400 He poses with the handcuffed Angiulo.

01:25:28.400 And one day, Boston FBI Deputy Chief Robert Fitzpatrick discovers something more.

01:25:34.400 One agent came in and told me that John Connolly was stealing his information.

01:25:41.400 Connolly must have thought, well, geez, their information is better than his.

01:25:45.400 So I'll just borrow it, if you will, and I'll use it.

01:25:49.400 Connolly is stealing reports from other informants and passing them off as coming from Bulger.

01:25:55.400 Fitzpatrick calls FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

01:26:01.400 I had said, look.

01:26:05.400 And we know this is Cap from looking at the case where they actually prosecuted him.

01:26:10.400 It was the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Justice that got him for lying.

01:26:14.400 Bulger and Flemmy, you can't use them as informants.

01:26:18.400 Because you're then in bed with who's ordering the killings, the violence, the extortions, the kidnappings.

01:26:26.400 So see, he's trying to distance himself like, oh, I wasn't involved in this.

01:26:29.400 And you're part and parcel of that.

01:26:32.400 And that was a simple argument, I thought. 0.99

01:26:34.400 All the agents involved in this, from John Connolly to John Morris to this guy, Fitzpatrick, they were all fucked up. 0.99

01:26:42.400 All of them had issues. 0.99

01:26:44.400 I was making, but it fell on deaf ears.

01:26:47.400 Connolly and his supervisor, John Morris, have woven such a dense web of deceit around Bulger that no one at FBI headquarters believes Fitzpatrick's allegations.

01:26:57.400 I'm going against the grain.

01:26:58.400 I'm being told by people at headquarters that perhaps-

01:27:05.400 We know this is Cap, which I showed you guys, so I'm just going to fast forward this real quick.

01:27:08.400 ...marijuana smuggler.

01:27:10.400 Under Bulger's interrogation, McIntyre yielded names and contacts, helping Bulger extend his reach.

01:27:17.400 Street corner deals attract a new kind of criminal to Southie, much to the disgust of old school gangsters, like Pat Knee.

01:27:28.400 Low life. A lot of them are useless. 0.99

01:27:33.400 All of a sudden, they're making a ton of money. And when they got arrested, all of a sudden, they want forgiveness. And I'm sorry. Who can I put in jail instead of me? 0.98

01:27:40.400 Bulger has made a crucial mistake. The drug trade leaves him vulnerable to dealers who turn squealers.

01:27:48.400 And this is, guys, so the mafia, just so you guys know, the mafia back then, the Italian mafia, had issues with trafficking drugs.

01:27:56.400 Now, obviously, you know, a lot of them did get caught for trafficking drugs, famously, people like John Gotti.

01:28:02.400 But typically, you know, back then, if you traffic drugs as a maid guy, as a guy in the mafia, you can get killed for that.

01:28:09.400 Because the problem with drugs is it's a dirty business, and the mafia didn't want to be involved.

01:28:12.400 Because when you deal with drugs, you deal with degenerates, you deal with people that are more likely that you're dealing with dope fiends, etc.

01:28:18.400 These guys are, you know, a lot of times they get picked up, and they get snitched.

01:28:23.200 So it causes issues for the family when you're involved in drug trafficking that can open everyone else up to issues.

01:28:29.400 So typically, drug trafficking was looked at as something like, yo, we don't want to be involved in this.

01:28:34.060 So Bulger getting involved in a drug game opens up to quite a bit of liability because we know that drugs are, it's a conspiracy-based crime inherently.

01:28:44.080 Because you have to have someone that supplies, you have to have someone that has, you know, someone that manufactures it, someone that supplies it,

01:28:50.300 then someone that distributes it, and then someone else that, you know, traffics it, whatever it may be, someone that deals with the money in the Korean.

01:28:55.620 So drug trafficking in itself is always going to be a conspiracy-based case, which means what?

01:29:00.680 You have the opportunity for snitches to go ahead and provide information.

01:29:04.380 So that's why the mafia traditionally always stayed away from drugs, and a lot of criminal organizations back then stayed away from it.

01:29:11.580 But Bulger, you know, being the greedy guy that he was, opened himself up with the drug trafficking, and he ends up getting in the eyes of the DEA here.

01:29:19.260 Also makes him a target for a second federal agency, the DEA.

01:29:25.280 If the DEA can link Bulger to drugs, his informant status may not protect him.

01:29:30.440 In the early 1990s, after 15 years of murder and extortion under FBI protection, the tide is finally about to turn against James Whitey Bulger.

01:29:43.300 In 1990, Boston's Irish gang boss, James Whitey Bulger, is starting to feel the pinch.

01:29:56.400 For years, he has secretly been protected from the law, courtesy of two FBI agents.

01:30:01.780 But now, the DEA is beginning to close in.

01:30:09.100 Drug enforcement agents find a South Boston street dealer with a story to tell.

01:30:13.860 He's lost over $100,000 in a coke buy gone wrong, and it leaves him unable to pay Whitey Bulger. 0.93

01:30:20.920 Fearing for his life, the dealer begins to talk.

01:30:24.760 In August 1990, the DEA busts over 50 Bulger associates.

01:30:29.760 In an instant, Whitey's drug ring is smashed. 0.96

01:30:34.520 But Bulger remains free.

01:30:37.680 FBI maneuvering keeps Bulger out of the DEA's case.

01:30:41.860 Agent John Connolly continues to argue that Bulger is a valuable source on the mafia.

01:30:46.900 But the pretext is wearing thin.

01:30:49.080 As you look over all those reports, they provided a lot of gossip about the mafia.

01:30:54.840 But it was mainly stuff like, you know, so-and-so's going to this wedding, or, you know, Joey's brother opened a restaurant on Hanover Street.

01:31:03.760 Since the mid-80s, the FBI has scored a string of major Boston mafia busts, all without significant information from Bulger.

01:31:12.280 I think the record would suggest that James Whitey Bulger did not give significant value to help dismantle the organized crime in Massachusetts.

01:31:24.700 He gave some information that he thought would potentially be helpful to him, more helpful to him than helpful to law enforcement.

01:31:32.120 With Connolly's help, Bulger has successfully fooled the FBI into protecting him for over 15 years.

01:31:41.620 John Connolly?

01:31:42.720 But in December 1990, John Connolly reaches retirement age.

01:31:46.520 With Connolly's departure, Bulger's informant status is terminated, just as the law is closing in.

01:31:55.680 Federal prosecutors and the Massachusetts State Police build a case that links Bulger and Flemmie to extortion and money laundering.

01:32:06.300 So it was actually the DEA and the State Police who were able to build a case.

01:32:09.220 In January 1995, the cops pounce.

01:32:17.940 Flemmie is arrested.

01:32:19.620 A colleague of Connolly mentions plans for the bust to the former agent.

01:32:24.820 Connolly wastes no time in tipping Bulger off.

01:32:28.860 As Flemmie goes to jail, James Whitey Bulger goes on the run.

01:32:33.380 During Flemmie's trial in 1997, the news breaks that Bulger and Flemmie are both FBI informants.

01:32:43.860 The reports shake Kevin Weeks to the core.

01:32:48.100 The last 20, 25 years of my life has been a lie.

01:32:51.480 And the person that I trust the most and I respect the most is doing everything that he preached against.

01:32:58.960 Kevin Weeks is finally arrested in 1999.

01:33:04.820 It takes him two weeks before he gives information on Whitey Bulger.

01:33:09.540 They actually, they gave him, when he got arrested originally, guys, they made jokes on him, calling him Kevin two weeks.

01:33:18.600 You know, two weeks to snitch, et cetera, making fun of him for, you know, informing on Whitey Bulger. 0.80

01:33:25.680 Weeks is breaking his own gang ethics.

01:33:27.720 Because, you know, we had...

01:33:30.580 Oh, my bad, guys, hold on.

01:33:32.700 Thank you, too.

01:33:36.680 Weeks' testimony reveals...

01:33:38.720 But then I started getting mad because, you know, we had, we killed people for being informants.

01:33:45.800 Weeks' testimony reveals the full brutal extent of Bulger's crimes.

01:33:49.540 As the remains of Bulger's victims are recovered, investigators like Robert Fitzpatrick and Tom Foley are finally vindicated.

01:33:58.240 It wasn't until we started pulling the bones out of the ground and showing the bodies of their victims that some people take a step back and all of a sudden...

01:34:10.620 So he pointed them to the direction of bodies, which included McIntyre as well, guys, who I told you guys before was the person that was involved in driving, you know, captaining the boat, the Valhalla, to Ireland to try to smuggle those guns and ended up getting caught.

01:34:24.940 And he ended up providing information on Bulger and a couple other guys to the DEA because he was also a pilot as well that was smuggling marijuana.

01:34:34.140 So when that gun running situation failed, he went ahead and cooperated and Bulger found out, lured him to the house, you know, on the premise of it being a party.

01:34:42.260 And then they killed him.

01:34:44.380 And Weeks knew because he was there when they murdered him and was involved in burying the body.

01:34:48.900 So he gives that information to the state police and they're able to dig up the bodies, which obviously they're able to independently corroborate a story, which makes him a credible witness because they were able to actually find a couple of different people buried there.

01:34:59.340 At that point, say, OK, they finally started registering with people what we were dealing with.

01:35:07.820 John Morris is now a federal witness.

01:35:10.360 And that's the supervisor that was managing John Connolly, by the way, guys.

01:35:14.400 And he never got charged for this, which a lot of people are like, what the hell?

01:35:18.980 In return for immunity, he rats on John Connolly, his co-conspirator.

01:35:23.940 And he accepted gifts, wines, money, bribes, all that stuff.

01:35:27.820 Oh, my bad. So let me go back. You guys didn't see that. Sorry.

01:35:33.020 What we were dealing with.

01:35:36.820 John Morris is now a federal witness.

01:35:39.340 In return for immunity, he rats on John Connolly, his co-conspirator.

01:35:45.240 I am innocent of the malicious charges that have been leveled against me in this case.

01:35:51.560 Connolly's tip offs link him to at least three murders, including that of informant Brian Hallery.

01:35:56.900 But in the end, and then this is Whitey Bulger and Kevin Weeks arguing, cursing each other out in court during the Bulger trial.

01:36:09.380 So cameras aren't allowed in federal courthouses, but they actually were, you know.

01:36:17.280 You won against the system.

01:36:18.720 What did I win?

01:36:20.240 What did I win?

01:36:21.660 You won five years.

01:36:22.860 Five people are dead.

01:36:24.860 Five people are dead.

01:36:27.700 Does that bother you at all?

01:36:29.540 Yeah.

01:36:30.280 It bothers me.

01:36:31.540 How does it bother you? 0.86

01:36:32.540 Because we killed people that were rats. 0.51

01:36:35.820 And I had the two biggest rats right next to me. 0.99

01:36:38.660 You sack. 1.00

01:36:38.680 F*** you, okay? 1.00

01:36:39.620 F*** you, dude. 1.00

01:36:40.560 What do you want to do? 1.00

01:36:41.100 Hey, Mr. Bulger.

01:36:42.520 Mr. Bulger, let your attorney speak for you.

01:36:44.940 Mr. Weeks, here's how this works.

01:36:46.500 You answer the questions, okay?

01:36:48.240 Mr. Carney, you can finish your question.

01:36:52.660 Oh, man.

01:36:54.960 Nice little reenactment there of them.

01:36:58.580 Connolly is jailed for ten years for racketeering, obstruction of justice, and lying to an FBI agent.

01:37:04.420 True to his selfie roots, Connolly has stuck by his friend, Bulger.

01:37:13.460 His relationship with Whitey grew over the years until he became a member of the gang. 0.96

01:37:18.940 I mean, he had no scruples about telling Whitey anything. 0.99

01:37:23.900 He couldn't draw a distinction between his role as an FBI agent, a law enforcement officer,

01:37:29.680 and his role as a friend of the Bulger family.

01:37:32.160 In 2003, Whitey's brother, Billy Bulger, appears before the House Committee on Government Reform,

01:37:39.140 a congressional watchdog that investigates federal wrongdoing.

01:37:43.180 Before the panel, Billy falters.

01:37:45.580 Mr. Bulger, what is it that you thought your brother did for a living?

01:37:48.740 For the most part, I had the feeling that he was in the business of gaming and whatever.

01:37:56.780 It was vague to me, but I didn't think of it for a long while.

01:38:01.340 Unable to explain.

01:38:03.620 You mean going ahead and extorting the gaming people?

01:38:09.600 Telling how much he did or did not know of his brother's activities, he retires from public life.

01:38:14.940 Today, Boston is counting the cost of the Bulger years. 1.00

01:38:21.940 The Irish-American community terrorized. 1.00

01:38:24.780 A city's faith in its public...

01:38:26.300 And here's a clip from the movie of John Connolly getting arrested, guys.

01:38:31.260 Here's the clip right here.

01:38:32.220 Yeah, because they're recording it from the movie.

01:38:42.860 John Connolly?

01:38:45.620 Yeah.

01:38:47.060 John Connolly.

01:38:48.100 We have a warrant for your arrest.

01:38:53.740 Mr. Connolly, step out of the building, please.

01:38:58.460 What?

01:39:02.220 You do me a favor, boys, and let me leave with some picnic.

01:39:06.780 Every law enforcement officer's worst nightmare.

01:39:08.660 Getting arrested, man.

01:39:09.860 Mr. Connolly, step out of the building, please.

01:39:12.620 To betray the badge.

01:39:15.660 Very bad.

01:39:17.980 Very embarrassing.

01:39:18.860 Very embarrassing.

01:39:26.260 Crazy.

01:39:29.820 Servants compromised. 0.85

01:39:32.220 The reputation of America's premier law agency, tarnished.

01:39:36.780 After serving various terms in jail, Pat Knee has few regrets for his life of crime.

01:39:43.620 I love being a criminal.

01:39:45.320 And I do miss it.

01:39:48.900 My regrets are few. 0.67

01:39:51.100 I regret not killing Whitey when I had the chance. 1.00

01:39:53.280 And, of course, I regret getting caught for anything.

01:39:58.520 Other than that, I just wish I had made more money and stashed it.

01:40:04.040 But I didn't.

01:40:07.300 Kevin Weeks admitted participation in five murders, but served a reduced sentence in return for his cooperation.

01:40:13.680 If I saw Jim Bulger today walking down the street, I'd keep on walking.

01:40:20.520 I mean, as far as I look at it, it's the FBI's problem.

01:40:23.280 They created him.

01:40:24.200 They allowed him to do what he was doing.

01:40:25.980 So, let them be the ones to catch him.

01:40:29.340 The feds are still searching.

01:40:31.640 James Whitey Bulger is number two on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, just behind Osama bin Laden. 0.99

01:40:38.080 That's fucking crazy. 0.96

01:40:39.080 The clues are few. 1.00

01:40:40.560 A macabre ring.

01:40:42.540 A few notebooks.

01:40:44.180 And a fake Irish passport are among the few artifacts Bulger left behind.

01:40:48.860 All right, so they ended up catching Bulger, guys, a few years after this recorded.

01:40:57.500 FBI's 16-year manhunt for James Whitey Bulger.

01:41:00.840 The search ended in 2011 when agents found the mobster and his girlfriend living in an apartment building in Santa Monica, California.

01:41:08.820 Bulger and Catherine Gregg went by the aliases Charlie and Carol Gasco until the FBI got a tip.

01:41:15.380 Agent Scott Gagariola set up a ruse with their landlord, Josh Bond, and it ended one of the most embarrassing episodes in the Bureau's history.

01:41:25.500 Bond told the FBI he wasn't going to knock on the Gasco's door because there was a note posted expressly asking people not to bother them.

01:41:33.940 Carol had told neighbors that Charlie was showing signs of dementia.

01:41:37.680 So we were back there.

01:41:38.820 So Gagariola devised a ruse involving the Gasco's storage locker in the garage.

01:41:44.180 It had the name Gasco across it, apartment 303.

01:41:48.220 He had the manager called to tell them that their locker had been broken into and that he needed someone to come down to see if anything was missing.

01:41:55.840 Carol Gasco said her husband would be right down.

01:41:58.860 We just rushed him.

01:41:59.740 He made guns out, FBI, don't move.

01:42:02.200 Gave the words, hey, FBI, get your hands up.

01:42:05.520 And hands went up right away.

01:42:07.600 And then at that moment, we told him to get down on his knees.

01:42:10.040 And he gave us, yeah, he gave us a, I ain't getting down on my effing knees. 0.99

01:42:17.980 Oh, shit. 1.00

01:42:18.840 Oh, shit. 1.00

01:42:19.420 He didn't want to get his pants dirty. 1.00

01:42:20.160 He didn't want to get his pants dirty.

01:42:21.220 He was wearing all white.

01:42:22.060 Wearing white and seeing the oil on the ground.

01:42:23.980 I guess he didn't want to get down in oil.

01:42:25.720 Even at 81, this was a man used to being in control.

01:42:28.920 I asked him to identify himself and that didn't go over well.

01:42:32.640 He asked me to F and identify myself, which I did. 0.97

01:42:36.300 And I asked him, I said, are you, are you Whitey Bulger? 1.00

01:42:39.240 He said, yes.

01:42:40.400 Just about that moment, someone catches my attention from a few feet away by the elevator shaft.

01:42:45.360 It was Janice Goodwin from the third floor coming to do her laundry. 0.99

01:42:49.140 And I said, excuse me, I think I can help you.

01:42:51.820 This man has dementia.

01:42:53.360 So if he's acting oddly, you know, that could be why.

01:42:57.720 I immediately would flash through my mind is, oh, my God, I just arrested an 81-year-old

01:43:01.640 man with Alzheimer's who thinks he's Whitey Bulger.

01:43:04.080 What is he going to tell me next?

01:43:05.200 He's Elvis.

01:43:06.120 So I said, do me a favor.

01:43:08.300 I said, this woman over here says you have a touch of Alzheimer's.

01:43:10.720 He said, don't listen to her. 1.00

01:43:12.120 She's effing nuts. 1.00

01:43:13.260 He says, I'm James Bulger. 0.99

01:43:16.520 That's fucking hilarious. 0.98

01:43:17.280 A few minutes. 0.99

01:43:17.920 He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

01:43:18.640 Don't listen to that fucking crazy ass chick. 1.00

01:43:20.120 And then look at this, guys. 1.00

01:43:20.840 This is a consensus search here, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, that

01:43:24.240 they ask him to search it.

01:43:25.360 And look, he signs it under his real name.

01:43:29.380 Later, he confirmed it, signing a consent form allowing the FBI to search his apartment.

01:43:34.860 As he's signing, he says, that's the first time I've signed that name in a long time.

01:43:38.720 Well, there's a feeling of resignation.

01:43:41.320 I don't think he had it.

01:43:42.680 I did ask him.

01:43:43.360 I said, hey, Whitey, aren't you relieved that you don't have to look over your shoulder 1.00

01:43:47.720 anymore and it's come to an end? 0.99

01:43:50.400 And he said, are you nuts? 0.84

01:43:54.700 You know, it's kind of funny, too, guys, because I'll tell you this from my personal experience. 0.97

01:43:57.660 A lot of times when you catch someone and they finally get arrested and you're driving

01:44:00.600 them back to the jail and it's like a late night, they'll just knock out and go to sleep.

01:44:03.940 And the reason why is because they're able to finally like kind of rest because like

01:44:06.780 it's over.

01:44:07.280 I'm caught.

01:44:07.860 It is what it is.

01:44:08.600 So a lot of times they get their best sleep the day that they're caught.

01:44:11.600 A lot of the times.

01:44:16.720 So after that, guys, he went to trial in 2013 and he got found guilty.

01:44:22.500 Here's the official press release back from August 12th, 2013. 0.86

01:44:26.260 Damn near what? 0.87

01:44:27.060 Wow. 0.95

01:44:27.280 Nine years ago at this point.

01:44:29.360 Following a two month long trial, the jury convicted James Bolger, holding him responsible

01:44:32.800 for the murder of 11 people, as well as numerous counts of extortion, money laundering, drug

01:44:36.080 dealing and firearms position.

01:44:37.380 Sentencing will begin on November 13th.

01:44:40.060 OK, so and he ended up getting sentencing.

01:44:55.220 I know he got he got he got he got like a couple of life sentences, if I'm not mistaken,

01:44:59.200 guys.

01:45:01.240 Well, because they got him on like what?

01:45:02.600 Nineteen charges for murder.

01:45:03.580 Yeah, they had him.

01:45:04.300 Well, here's the charges right here.

01:45:05.420 So here's his actual this is like the the docket, the case docket here.

01:45:11.120 Kevin Weeks.

01:45:12.600 Right.

01:45:13.140 They had him there.

01:45:14.060 He got he got a bunch of time off because he cooperated.

01:45:16.660 Kevin P.

01:45:17.100 O'Neill.

01:45:17.940 Right.

01:45:18.620 Here's. 1.00

01:45:21.720 Look, look, look, look at all these goddamn charges. 0.99

01:45:23.980 Where's there? 1.00

01:45:24.640 Stephen Fleming.

01:45:26.020 Right.

01:45:26.520 And then James Bolger is going to be here somewhere.

01:45:28.740 Michael Fleming.

01:45:30.820 And then James Bolger is right.

01:45:33.880 Where the hell was it at the top?

01:45:35.080 Maybe.

01:45:37.860 Kevin P.

01:45:38.420 O'Neill defendant and then defendant three James Bolger.

01:45:40.780 Here we go.

01:45:41.220 Bam.

01:45:42.000 Right.

01:45:42.700 And that's when he got found guilty.

01:45:44.240 That's why it says terminated at 11, 19, 2013, because he got he got he got hit with the judgment.

01:45:48.160 And the indictment I have here is well, guys.

01:45:52.440 But let me go ahead and let's see if we could pull the judgment up here.

01:45:56.000 Control F.

01:45:56.640 And again, this is on pacer.

01:46:01.480 Here, let me stop sharing screen for a second.

01:46:13.880 What are your thoughts on this, Christina, while I pull this thing up?

01:46:15.720 It's funny.

01:46:18.660 What's funny?

01:46:20.360 Good morning.

01:46:21.420 Literally, no concern.

01:46:22.940 Like, they just don't care. 1.00

01:46:23.820 They're like, fuck it. 1.00

01:46:25.460 Yeah. 1.00

01:46:25.840 Slim lead.

01:46:27.120 I'm going to just take you.

01:46:28.340 Look at the liquor store.

01:46:30.160 Call it a day.

01:46:30.960 They still got you on the liquor store part.

01:46:33.100 Yeah.

01:46:33.920 Here's the actual indictment, guys.

01:46:35.540 Real quick.

01:46:36.060 I'll show y'all because you guys can see the list of charges that they had on him.

01:46:41.800 Here.

01:46:42.360 Share screen.

01:46:42.920 Okay.

01:46:45.720 This is the actual original indictment, guys.

01:46:48.360 It took me a while to find this.

01:46:49.920 But here we go.

01:46:50.400 United States District Court.

01:46:52.020 111 page indictment.

01:46:53.120 All the charges.

01:46:53.980 Count one.

01:46:54.420 The enterprise.

01:46:55.320 Right?

01:46:55.500 They talk about all the murders he did.

01:46:57.960 All that stuff is here.

01:46:59.600 And, you know, maybe I'll attach the document here for you guys if you want to read it in the description.

01:47:04.200 But this is a 111 page indictment, man.

01:47:07.100 Crazy stuff.

01:47:07.920 It goes through all the stuff.

01:47:08.900 All the people that he murdered.

01:47:10.420 Right?

01:47:11.580 Let me see here if I can find the murders.

01:47:14.640 Okay.

01:47:16.440 Here, actually.

01:47:17.580 Control F.

01:47:27.700 Okay.

01:47:28.140 So, the forfeiture allegations.

01:47:29.460 Okay.

01:47:29.600 And that's the end.

01:47:30.320 So, that's the stuff they took from him.

01:47:33.000 Count 42.

01:47:33.840 The guns.

01:47:34.500 Like, man, they had...

01:47:35.560 Dude, this indictment.

01:47:36.480 I read through it myself, guys.

01:47:38.460 They have him on so much.

01:47:39.640 They had him on so much stuff.

01:47:40.760 They had an overwhelming amount of evidence on him and his co-conspirators.

01:47:45.640 But let's see here.

01:47:46.720 How much time did he end up getting?

01:47:48.260 I know he got a couple of life sentences.

01:47:50.360 But what ended up happening, guys, he actually got killed while in prison.

01:47:54.160 Okay?

01:47:54.440 It took him, like...

01:47:55.560 And in 2018, he got killed, guys.

01:47:58.240 And he, you know, died a pretty gruesome death.

01:48:00.800 And we're going to go ahead and show you guys.

01:48:03.620 And the three guys got indicted.

01:48:08.740 People in Boston and beyond for years.

01:48:11.940 Tonight, three men suspected of killing him are facing murder charges.

01:48:16.600 And an author who interviewed one suspect behind bars tells WBZ this was prison justice.

01:48:23.720 Boulger was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia nearly four years ago.

01:48:28.140 Two of the men now charged are accused of hitting him in the head several times.

01:48:31.880 The suspects are Paul DiColagero from Lowe.

01:48:34.800 Oh, my bad, guys. 0.99

01:48:35.720 Holy shit. 0.98

01:48:36.240 I didn't even... 0.99

01:48:37.020 Christina, pay attention, man.

01:48:38.540 I didn't even see that I had a...

01:48:39.920 I was watching yours, honestly.

01:48:41.380 You gotta watch yours, man. 1.00

01:48:43.960 Stupid. 1.00

01:48:44.580 My bad, guys. 1.00

01:48:45.160 Let me go ahead and share a screen with y'all real fast.

01:48:48.440 My bad.

01:48:49.740 I was literally just carrying it.

01:48:55.820 So this is three guys that were indicted.

01:48:57.960 He got killed, guys.

01:48:59.200 I think October 30th of 2018, man.

01:49:00.960 They beat him with a sock.

01:49:02.420 Really, they said that they beat him so bad that his face was unrecognizable after the

01:49:07.840 three guys that killed him while he was in prison serving his sentence.

01:49:11.300 They took this mobster, Whitey Bulger, terrorized people in Boston and beyond for years.

01:49:16.600 Tonight, three men suspected of killing him are facing murder charges.

01:49:21.200 And an author who interviewed one suspect behind bars tells WBZ this was prison justice.

01:49:27.140 Bulger was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia nearly four years ago.

01:49:32.800 Two of the men now charged are accused of hitting him in the head several times.

01:49:36.920 The suspects are Paul DeColagero from Lowell and mob enforcer Freddy G.S. from West Springfield.

01:49:43.500 A third, Sean McKinnon, is accused of lying to investigators.

01:49:46.880 All were inmates at the time of the murder.

01:49:48.860 Freddy G.S. was an old school gangster and he lived by the code that you don't quote unquote rat on your friends.

01:49:56.320 Author Casey Sherman interviewed G.S. for his book Hunting Whitey.

01:50:00.360 He says Bulger never should have been transferred to the prison where he was killed because Bulger was a known FBI informant.

01:50:07.240 Yeah, that's crazy that they put him in gen pop like that.

01:50:09.640 The deadly attack on Bulger happened just hours after he was transferred from a Florida prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for 11 murders.

01:50:29.180 WBZ interviewed a judge.

01:50:30.580 He got charged 119 but convicted of 11.

01:50:32.720 ...on the Bulger trial and spoke with her shortly after he was killed.

01:50:36.800 He's 89 years old. Why wasn't he moved to the medical facility and why didn't anybody notice the commotion?

01:50:44.440 Bulger was on the FBI's most wanted list for years before police arrested him in Southern California in 2011.

01:50:51.340 Tonight, U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins says Bulger's family experienced the excruciating pain that Bulger inflicted on so many other families.

01:50:59.220 And Rollins says in the truest of ironies, the justice system is now coming to their aid by arresting the mobsters' accused killers.

01:51:08.860 A lot of people said it was justice because he had killed so many people himself in gruesome ways.

01:51:13.920 And, you know, it kind of...

01:51:15.120 You can't feel bad looking at it to other people.

01:51:17.800 It's going to go back on you.

01:51:19.360 Yeah. You know, you live by the sword, you die by the sword, right?

01:51:21.680 Um, but that was an epic fuck-up by the government, um, for not putting him in proper, um, in a proper situation.

01:51:30.840 Okay. Judgment of USA to James Bulger.

01:51:33.640 Okay. So let's see here.

01:51:34.600 So I think this is a judgment right here, guys.

01:51:37.020 I'm trying to get it for y'all.

01:51:37.940 I don't know why they didn't put it here.

01:51:40.420 So James Bulger, judgment entered March 4th, 2016.

01:51:45.080 Uh, so there was an appeal.

01:51:53.600 Okay. But why? That's not what we want.

01:51:55.480 We want the actual judgment.

01:51:58.060 Bear with me here, guys. 1.00

01:51:59.860 You guys are learning how much Pacer sucks balls. 1.00

01:52:04.100 God damn it. 1.00

01:52:10.160 Okay. So run... 1.00

01:52:11.520 Yeah, this is what we want.

01:52:13.080 This case right here.

01:52:14.140 Run the query.

01:52:16.080 Go to Docker report.

01:52:18.320 Run report.

01:52:20.680 And we're going to do as initially requested.

01:52:23.400 Okay. So now we have the case.

01:52:24.860 And I'll enlarge your field so you can kind of see what's going on here.

01:52:28.120 Okay.

01:52:28.900 And you scroll down.

01:52:32.440 You guys can see there's a...

01:52:33.560 But this was a long case, so there was a lot of stuff.

01:52:36.140 Let me...

01:52:37.600 Put down here faster.

01:52:40.100 Judgment's going to be down here.

01:52:41.180 You want to look for judgment.

01:52:42.900 So here's judgment.

01:52:47.180 Opinion.

01:52:53.360 Okay. Hold on.

01:52:54.500 Control F.

01:52:55.140 All the way down here.

01:53:15.600 Because we're still in 2013.

01:53:17.480 Okay.

01:53:18.040 2013.

01:53:28.360 I think this is it right here.

01:53:29.880 Okay.

01:53:31.240 He's committed to the custody of the Bureau for life.

01:53:33.200 Okay.

01:53:33.420 So this is what he got, guys.

01:53:34.320 Here it is right here.

01:53:35.700 He got committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for life, followed by a consecutive minimum mandatory term of five years and a consecutive minimum mandatory term of life in prison.

01:53:45.780 The term consists of terms of life on counts 1SS and 2SS, 240 months, etc.

01:53:53.300 So this is the actual official judgment right here.

01:53:57.980 Let's pull up this document.

01:53:59.840 View all.

01:54:01.820 This is the judgment of Whitey Bulger right here. 0.99

01:54:03.780 Don't let me view it, God damn it. 0.99

01:54:11.420 Come on. 0.98

01:54:13.520 It's acting up.

01:54:14.940 Yeah, it's acting slow.

01:54:16.140 Bear with me, guys, here.

01:54:16.940 This is a very, this 37-page judgment, which actually isn't very common.

01:54:22.120 So this is what a judgment looks like, guys.

01:54:24.720 So here it is.

01:54:28.020 These are the charts.

01:54:28.780 They hit him with money laundering, possession of firearms, possession of machine guns, and furtherance of violent crime, possession of unregistered machine guns.

01:54:33.780 Possession of machine guns, possession of firearms, obliterated serial numbers.

01:54:38.420 Okay.

01:54:39.140 So he got, the defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the U.S. BOP in prison for a total term of life, followed by a consecutive minimum mandatory term of five years and a consecutive minimum mandatory term of life.

01:54:50.760 This term consists of terms of life on counts 1SS and 2SS, 240 months, 240 months.

01:54:56.260 So, yeah, this is what they got him on.

01:55:00.380 And racketeering, conspiracy, racketeering, extortion, conspiracy, money laundering, money laundering.

01:55:05.200 And here it is, James Bolger.

01:55:08.200 This is the official judgment here, guys.

01:55:11.320 So that is the end of an era right there.

01:55:16.240 So, yeah, Christina, final thoughts?

01:55:17.740 I mean, it was interesting.

01:55:22.560 I'm still stuck in a store.

01:55:24.240 I'm like, how are you going to cause a problem?

01:55:26.080 All right.

01:55:26.500 Thank you for contributing. 0.86

01:55:27.260 Nothing stupid.

01:55:28.420 Yeah, guys. 0.80

01:55:29.000 So I hope you guys enjoyed that.

01:55:31.680 You know, this is, like I said, one of my favorite crime stories.

01:55:35.220 Yes, obviously, Bolger was an informant, but, you know, you got to give the guy credit.

01:55:39.260 It was very smart for him to be an informant and provide information on his competition while simultaneously still running his criminal activities and making money and doing all the things that he did.

01:55:46.860 Hey, man, you got to you got to give your hats off to the guy.

01:55:49.520 So anyway, with that said, guys, hope you guys enjoyed this video.

01:55:52.560 Don't forget to like the video on your way out.

01:55:53.880 I'll catch you all on the next episode of Fed It, where we react to criminal documentaries and we also react to, you know, contemporary cases going on.

01:56:02.780 So other than that, man, subscribe to the channel, like the video.

01:56:05.220 Peace.

01:56:08.320 I was a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations.

01:56:10.420 Okay, guys.

01:56:11.100 HSI.

01:56:11.760 The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug trafficking.

01:56:16.940 No one else has these documents, by the way.

01:56:19.180 Here's what Fed It covers.

01:56:20.260 Dr. Lafredo confirmed lacerations due to stepping on.

The Debrief With MyronGainesX - October 16, 2022

The FBI's 2nd Most Wanted Man Behind Osama Bin Laden： James ＂Whitey＂ Bulger

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