By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI isn’t giving up on finding the ever-elusive Top 10 fugitive, Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who is wanted for 19 murders. The latest: the FBI is launching what it calls a “unique new publicity campaign” by focusing on Catherine Elizabeth Greig, the longtime girlfriend of Bulger. She has not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI suspects that Top Ten Fugitive, Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger is hiding out in Europe, Time magazine reports. A team of investigators are ” keeping a close eye on Europe,” Time reported. “The team has an idea of which country Bulger is possibly in but won’t say for fear…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One hundred retired FBI agents — including two deputy directors — aren’t giving up their fight to try and exonerate and free convicted ex-Boston agent John J. Connolly Jr., whose relationships with the Boston mob landed him in big trouble. The Los Angeles’s Times Richard Serrano reported that the agents, known…
Rumors circulate that Whitey Bulger may be dead: MyFoxBOSTON.com
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Imprisoned ex-Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who was convicted of helping some mobsters murder a South Florida gambling exec, is getting some support from some former colleagues. The Associated Press reports that more than 100 ex- FBI agents, including the one whose undercover work inspired the movie “Donnie Brasco,” have filed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rogue Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who was faulted for getting too close to his mob informants, will remain behind bars. The Miami Herald reports that the Florida Third District of Appeal on Wednesday upheld his 2008 conviction in the murder of Miami Jai-Alai executive John Callahan in 1982. He was…
