Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors said they will not release the name of the confidential informant involved in the case against mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, the Boston Herald reports. The defense attorneys maintain the informant helped the FBI determine what others may say during testimony. Prosecutors dismissed the allegations as ” street talk” and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Reputed Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger is asking a federal judge to force the disclosure of the identity of a confidential informant, the Boston Herald reports. Bulger’s lawyers said the informant can help discredit two witnesses who plan to testify against the aging gangster at the criminal trial, which begins June 13….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime critic of the FBI, issued some harsh words for the agency in the case of FBI informant Mark Rossetti, a big-time Boston mobster, who was sentenced last week in Suffolk Superior Court to 12 years in prison. Grassley said the Boston FBI hasn’t learned its lesson…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston federal judge in the James “Whitey” Bulger case has been removed. CNN reports that the First Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling after the defense raised concerns that U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns might not be able to be impartial. Stearns was a federal prosecutor at the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When then-U.S. Attorney Wayne A. Budd was investigating mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, he said the FBI “stonewalled” him in the 1990s when he asked whether Bulger was an informant, MassLive.com reports. The assertion came during a confirmation hearing for Attorney Robert Ullmann, who is seeking appointment on a seat on the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com John Bond thought it was odd for the old man to stop by several times a week, sometimes with gifts, to tell him stories. It didn’t occur to him that the old man was James “Whitey” Bulger, one of the most wanted men in America, Salon wrote in a lengthy narrative of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mobster and suspected serial killer “Whitey” Bulger was never an FBI informant, his attorneys said Wednesday, the Boston Herald reports. “James Bulger was never an informant for the FBI or anyone else,” attorney J.W. Carney Jr. told reporters outside Boston federal courthouse. “We have never said in the courtroom that he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy have penned a new biography on mobster James “Whitey” Bulger , which reveals some interesting tidbits about the one-time fugitive accused of killing 19 people. The book, “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt that Brought Him to Justice,” talks about…
