Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security is releasing dead bacteria into Boston’s Subway System to test its new bio-terror sensing detector, the Business Insider reports. Scientists will release Bacillus subtilis, a non-toxic bacterium found in soil, water, air and decomposing plant matter, as part of a simulated biological weapon attack. It can’t cause…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Catherine Greig, the girlfriend of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, is set to be sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Boston. The Boston Herald reports that prosecutors will ask for no less than 10 years in prison. Her lawyer obviously will ask for far less. Bulger and Greig were captured by…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Are sour grapes delaying construction of the FBI’s new $150 million regional headquarters in Chelsea, Massachusetts? Slated to begin construction late last year (never happened) bid-winning developer Emerald Corporate Center LLC, a division of ACS Development Corp. is facing a lawsuit from losing-bidder Boston Harbor Development Partners, an arm of Pappas Enterprises…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Atty. Carmen Ortiz for Massachusetts governor in 2014? That seems to be the rumor circulating in Democratic circles, according to the Boston Herald. “That’s a rumor out there,” acknowledged former Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Phil Johnston, according to the Boston Herald “She’s had a high profile as a U.S. attorney,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, William Shakespeare he may not be. But apparently Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger — accused of killing 19 people — was into writing. The Boston Globe reports that he may have written two memoirs that the feds may use against him in trial, now set for November. He’s charged with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for the moment all the followers of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger have been waiting for. Bloomberg news reports that the federal trial for Bulger,82, who was on the lam for 16 years, has been set for Nov. 5 in Boston. He is accused of killing at least 19…
By NPR Staff When Whitey Bulger was captured last year, he’d spent close to 20 years on the run — and on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Bulger was the head of an Irish gang terrorizing the streets of South Boston. The Massachusetts State Police wanted him gone, but curiously couldn’t touch him. Why? Bulger…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The imprisoned Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is trying to get hold of Mark Wahlberg, the actor says. The meeting is only speculation at this point, reports The Inquisitr, but it seems plausible Bulger wants Wahlberg to portray his likeness in a possible biopic on the criminal. “I actually got a…
