Former Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was never an FBI informant, his attorney said during opening statements in a trial that alleges 19 counts of murder, U.S. News & World Report writes.
Defense attorney J.W. Carney said Bulger never worked as an FBI informant against Italian mob rivals.
“Number one, James Bulger is of Irish descent,” Bulger’s defense attorney J.W. Carney said in court. “And the worst thing an Irish person could consider doing is becoming an informant.”
Bulger was arrested in June 2011 after spending 12 years on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list.
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