They caught Whitey.

[WilliamPitt]

Back in 1998, the Boston Globe blew the lid off the collusion between notorious crime boss and multiple murderer Whitey Bulger and FBI agent John Connolly. This is the five-part report they filed back then. It's a fascinating tale, and a true Boston crime story for the ages. Good lunch break reading.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/1998/07/19/agent_mobster_forge_a_pact_on_old_southie_ties/

P.S. on edit...the running joke on Facebook right now:

"Pakistan knew he was in Santa Monica the whole time."

:rofl:

[Ian David]

1. Got him!

[WilliamPitt]

3. Running joke on Facebook:

"Pakistan knew he was in Santa Monica the whole time."

:)

[closeupready]

11. +1 LOL Pakistan knows all, sees all, is all-controlling. Muwuhahahahaha!

:rofl:

[Ian David]

14. I like that! :) n/t

[graywarrior]

2. I find it interesting that Kevin Weeks has a book coming out right now.

[malaise]

21. What I found strange was that just last week his

woman was added to the most wanted list and then this week he was found.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Boston-mob-boss-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-1436526.php
<snip>
Bulger — the FBI's most-wanted man and a feared underworld figure linked to 19 murders — was captured Wednesday after one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history. His undoing may have been his impeccably groomed girlfriend.

Earlier this week, after years of frustration, the FBI put out a series of daytime TV announcements with photos of Bulger's blond live-in companion, Catherine Greig. The announcements pointed out that Greig was known to frequent beauty salons and have her teeth cleaned once a month.

Two days later, the campaign produced a tip that led agents to the two-bedroom apartment three blocks from the Pacific Ocean where Bulger and Greig lived, authorities said. The FBI would not give any details about the tip.
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Damn it was earlier this week - really unbelievable.

add link

[WilliamPitt]

22. The ads featuring her literally started only 48 hours ago.

One wonders if Grieg wasn't the one to make the call. Just a thought.

[malaise]

24. Interesting

An amazing story

[graywarrior]

23. I'd love to know what Billy knew and if Weeks' brother, Jack. had

anything to do with "helping" out.

[malaise]

25. Wish I knew

but we can all expect another movie :D

[graywarrior]

29. That's for sure

[DainBramaged]

4. Guy Whitey Cornbread?

http://guywhiteycornbread.blogspot.com/

[Raven]

5. Hi Will. I'm remembering my famous run in with the Bulger crowd and

how John Connolly saved my butt. I thought Connolly was a good man in those days. I wonder what Bulger will say about him now that he's caught.

[WilliamPitt]

6. Check the dryer.

;)

Hey, Connolly bought Whitey an extra sixteen years of freedom by warning him to split town. I'm sure there's some gratitude there, but in the end, Whitey probably thinks the same thing about Connolly now that he did back then.

"Sucker."

[Raven]

7. Hah! When my friend F'''ing Mary from Southy came up here to

visit she was convinced Whitey was hiding out somewhere in the woods.

[WilliamPitt]

8. He was.

He rode a moose to Santa Monica with the help of Pakistan. :P

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Was there a low speed Mobility Scooter chase?

Gosh, I hope so.

[derby378]

10. About damn time

It would be nice if Bulger and Connolly could share a cell in the big house.

[H2O Man]

12. He was brutal.

His story is a strange and ugly one.

[Raven]

13. He was but John Connolly was a pillar of the community. My law

firm represented Boston Edison on its land use matters when Connolly was Director of Community Relations for the company (I think that was his title)after he retired from the FBI. We worked with John and he seemed to be a lovely guy and an upstanding citizen. He could work a room and when he spoke with you he had a way of making you think you were the only person of importance on the planet. He would often hold court at a party with a crowd of people around him telling them stories of his exploits as an FBI agent. They would hang on his every word. There was one famous story of him taking down a mobster on a busy street in NYC. I had the impression at the time that he was a hero in the eyes of other agents. It was a real shock when his dealing with the Bulger mob were exposed.

[H2O Man]

15. Connolly's story

seems tragic. He had the potential to be that pillar of the community. I'm not excusing what he did, by any means, but he was used by Bulger.

[WilliamPitt]

16. Whitey's victims are also the FBIs victims

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/06/kevin-cullen-whitey-and-the-family-robbed-brother-father-and-son/8lL8hWB4KoBWVeWyrebnoM/index.html

[Johonny]

17. did they ask him where his hat is?

[WilliamPitt]

18. ...or where Curley's desk is.

;)

[Taverner]

19. Frank Costello himself

Why is "Shipping up to Boston" playing in my head right now?

[WilliamPitt]

20. Becuz.

;)

[malaise]

26. Give us some of those truly cynical Bostonian links

Lawrence has Howie Carr on and he says most Bostonians don't believe the FBI because the ads weren't running in LA and Whitey and Greig look like Mr and Mrs Santa Claus :rofl:

[scarletwoman]

27. Wait a minute - John Connolly - I could swear his name has come up before for a whole other

can of worms. I'm thinking about a former FBI agent that (irrc) died in Bulding 7 on 9/11. Can't think of his name right now...

Anyway, the deceased FBI guy was a big counter-terrorism investigator who kept running afoul of some other FBI guy, such that the deceased agent finally quit and went to work for a private security company.

Anyone know who I'm talking about? I could swear that John Connoly was named as one of the guys who was fucking with the deceased.

sw

[DemReadingDU]

30. John O'Neill?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._O%27Neill

[scarletwoman]

32. Yes! Thank you! That's exactly who I was thinking of.

I could be all wet about any connection between O'Neill and Connolly, all I know is that Connolly's name rang a bell and made me remember O'Neill.

It's been almost 10 years. Back then, I used to spend hours and hours daily reading everything I could find about all things even peripherally connected to 9/11. Which is how I came across John o'Neill.

Thank you again,
sw

[malaise]

31. Anderson Cooper has good coverage

People in Boston do not believe the FBI story

[scarletwoman]

33. I have no TV. No matter, I'm with the people in Boston in not believing the FBI.

Not believing the FBI is pretty much of a given with me.

sw

[kwassa]

28. Can I get his apartment in Santa Monica?

Two blocks from the ocean? Not easy to come by.