We all know who the #1 Most Wanted on the FBI list is, Osama Bin Laden. #2 is a Boston gangster by the name of Whitey Bulger. His is an incredible story of terror and corruption, intermixing the underworld and politics. Whitey’s brother Billy was for years, the most powerful politician in Massachusetts. He served with an iron hand as Senate president and later as president of the University of Massachusetts.
The story of the Bulger Brothers has been chronicled relentlessly for twenty years by Boston Herald columnist, and WRKO afternoon talk king Howie Carr.
Howie’s new book is a fascinating account of the Bulgers brothers personal and business relationship. I just finished reading it, and highly recommend you read The Bulger Brothers: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century.
Sunday evening on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Whitey’s right hand man, and fellow mass murderer Kevin Weeks, tells Ed Bradley of Whitey’s plans to kill Howie Carr because of his persistent coverage of the pair’s exploits.
CBSNews 60 Minutes: Henchman Tells of Whitey’s Black Deeds
Bulger and Weeks wanted Carr dead because the journalist wrote and spoke about their crimes constantly. After a plan to put an exploding basketball in Carrâ??s driveway was abandoned for fear it would harm neighbors, Weeks says, he and Bulger decided on a more direct way.
“I was down at his house…about 5:30 in the morning, across the street in a cemetery with a rifle, waiting for him to come out,” says Weeks. “And he come (sic) outâ?¦between 7:15, 7:30 and he had his daughter with him. I assume it was his daughter, young girl. He was holding her by the hand, going to his car. So I had to pass on it,” he tells Bradley. “I didn’t want to kill him in front of his daughter.”
Carr lived across from a cemetery and acknowledges the possibility that Weeks may have been there, but believes Bulger was more apt to commit such a bold crime. “It doesnâ??t seem like Kevin would have the stones to do itâ?¦If he said, ‘Whitey was there,’ well,” Carr tells Bradley, “you wouldn’t be interviewing me, because I’d be dead.”
Whitey Bulger has been on the run for a decade, since a corrupt FBI agent in the Boston office tipped him off that he was about to be indicted.
Here is Whitey’s rap sheet according to the FBI,
RACKETEERING INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS (RICO) – MURDER (18 COUNTS), CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT EXTORTION, NARCOTICS DISTRIBUTION, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING; EXTORTION; MONEY LAUNDERING
JAMES J. BULGER IS BEING SOUGHT FOR HIS ROLE IN NUMEROUS MURDERS COMMITTED FROM THE EARLY 1970s THROUGH THE MID-1980s IN CONNECTION WITH HIS LEADERSHIP OF AN ORGANIZED CRIME GROUP THAT ALLEGEDLY CONTROLLED EXTORTION, DRUG DEALS, AND OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IN THE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AREA. HE HAS A VIOLENT TEMPER AND IS KNOWN TO CARRY A KNIFE AT ALL TIMES.
Immediately following the segment on 60 Minutes Sunday evening, Howie will be joining us in studio to discuss this entire episode, the twisted relationship of the Brothers Bulger, the corruption and reign of terror they held over Boston for a quarter century and what it is like hearing a mob hitman tell to 60 Minutes that you were in his sights. You don’t want to miss this!!
When: Sunday evening at 9pm est
Where: Streaming Live at WRKO
Contact: Call with questions for Howie at 877-469-4322
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