By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney who made headlines as the lead prosecutor in the case of the infamous crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his long-time girlfriend Catherine Greig, has been named “Bostonian of the Year,” by the Boston Globe Magazine, the publication announced in a press release on Friday. The Globe,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy surrounding the decision by the Boston Globe to publish the name of the woman who tipped off the FBI as to the whereabouts of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, continued on Wednesday. The FBI in Boston posted a statement on its website denying it played any role in the publication…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Boston Globe is standing by its decision to publicly name the tipster that led federal agents to nab fugitive gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in June in California. Editors were confident that revealing the name of Anna Bjornsdottir, an Iceland native and Santa Monica, Calif. neighbor of Bulger’s, did not pose…
