Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawyers for mobster James “Whitey” Bulger are seeking more evidence to bolster their claim that the accused serial murderer was given a license to kill by the federal government, the Boston Herald reports. Defense lawyers are asking U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns to order the release of all relevant correspondence between the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Up for sale: Two story, lakefront Florida retreat riddled with bullets. The suggested starting price: $1 million. The frame house in rural Ocklawaha, about 60 miles northwest of Orlando, is where FBI agents killed legendary Ma Barker in 1935, Reuters reports. She was the mother of some gangsters of the Barker and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Accused mobster Joseph “Mousie” Massimino is suspected of conducting Mafia business from behind closed bars, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. Among the evidence is a letter that Massimino sent to a friend in 2005 while locked up in New Jersey’s South Woods State Prison. The letter advises a friend to “get in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Janice Fedarcyk, the fist woman to head the N.Y. FBI office, who oversaw some major terrorists, mob and Wall Street probes, is retiring to enter the private sector, the Wall Street Journal reports. Janice Fedarcyk, assistant director in charge of the New York bureau, plans to start a consulting firm in Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com How unsophisticated was the FBI when dealing with the mob in the early 1960s? So unsophisticated that the bureau referred to the La Cosa Nostra as the La Causa Nostra, according to Jerry Capeci, the mob expert who runs the site Gang Land News. Capeci writes that for near two years,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger should not be prosecuted for 19 murders because the government promised him immunity for past and future crimes when he was an FBI informant, his lawyer argued Monday, the Washington Post reports. Attorney J.W. Carney Jr. said he plans to urge the judge to dismiss…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A high-ranking mobster in New England was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison for his role in shaking down strip clubs for money in return for protection, according to the Department of Justice. U.S. District Court Judge William Smith also ordered Edward “Eddy” Lato, 65, of Providence, R.I., to three years…
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…
