Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawyers for accused mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger continued to hammer the FBI’s claims that Bulger secretly ratted out the Italian Mafia and other criminals, The Associated Press reports. For the second straight day, Bulger attorney Hank Brennan continued to grill James Marra, a special agent in the Justice Department’s Office of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Was reputed mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger a rat? During tense testimony Tuesday in Bulger’s murder and racketeering trial, his defense attorneys tore into government witnesses who acknowledged Bulger’s files were falsified or inaccurate, the New York Daily News reports. FBI files suggest Bulger ratted out friends and associates, but defense…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four people accused of killing a DEA agent during an attempted robbery in Columbia last week are in custody, CNN reports. Columbia’s National Police apprehended the suspects and said two more are on the loose. The U.S. plans to request extradition, CNN wrote. Special Agent James “Terry” Watson was working on assignment…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the murder and racketeering trial of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger continues today, a former FBI supervisor is expected to testify that he and another agent traded secrets with the ruthless White Hill Gang, Reuters reports. John Morris, who led the FBI’s local organized crime squad in Boston in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The murder and racketeering trial of James “Whitey” Bulger will turn its focus on the FBI’s 700-page file on the ex-mob boss next week, the Boston Herald reports. The trial began this week and took a recess for the weekend beginning Thursday. The records are expected to shine light on Bulger’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents searching for evidence of a 30-year-old mob murder said they found possible human remains in a New York home once occupied by a famous gangster, the Associated Press reports. The Queens house was once home to James Burke, a Lucchese crime family associate known as “Jimmy the Gent” and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John Martorano, a star witness in the prosecutor’s murder and racketeering case against mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, described chilling details of killing people, sometimes the wrong ones, The Boston Globe reports. Martorano, a friend-turned-foe of Bulger’s, implicated the mob boss in six slayings in the 1970s on Wednesday and is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A child rapist and an alleged killer are the most recent additions to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list, NBC News reports. They are the 499th and 500th fugitives to be added to a list that has included Osama bin Laden, Ted Bundy, Whitey Bulger and James Early Ray. “These individuals…
