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Sunday, September 16, 2012

'Most Wanted' Author Discusses Boston Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's Arrest

Thomas J. Foley, the author of Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected, answered questions about Bulger's arrest, Nate Holman reports.

Former Massachusetts State Police Colonel Thomas J. Foley, author of Most Wanted discussed the 16-year odyssey of chasing one of America’s most wanted and notorious criminal mastermind, James “Whitey” Bulger at the BPL on Thursday evening. Former Boston Globe reporter and current Boston University professor Dick Lehr, author of Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob moderated a Q+A forum with the audience.

You can read the rest of the story via the below link:

http://fenwaykenmore.patch.com/articles/most-wanted-author-discusses-whitey-bulger-arrest-at-the-bpl

You can also read my Washington Times review of Most Wanted via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/hunting-down-a-crime-boss/?page=all#pagebreak

Thursday, August 9, 2012

My Washington Times Review Of 'Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, The Murderous Mob Chief The FBI Secretly Protected'

The Washington Times ran my review of Thomas J. Foley's book on the notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger yesterday.

Foley is a retired head of the Massachusetts State Police and he recounts his long investigation of Bulger and his gang in Most Wanted.

James "Whitey" Bulger led a charmed life until he was finally arrested in California on June 23, 2011.

Mr. Bulger, the alleged former crime boss of an Irish-American crime family based in South Boston, was about to be arrested in 1995 but was tipped off and he disappeared. He was a fugitive from justice for 16 years, ranking on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives second only to Osama bin Laden.

After Mr. Bulger went on the run, it came out that he had a “special relationship” with the FBI and for many years, it shielded him from local law enforcement and other federal agencies. Mr. Bulger was an FBI “top-echelon informant,” providing information that helped the feds lock up his Italian-American Cosa Nostra rivals and other competitors in the Boston area. Once his rivals were in prison, Mr. Bulger purportedly took over their criminal enterprises.

You can read the rest of my review via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/hunting-down-a-crime-boss/?page=all#pagebreak

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Most Wanted: How Notorious Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Evaded Police For 50 Years

Emily Ann Stein at the British newspaper the Daily Mail reports on how Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was able to evade arrest for 50 years.

One of America's most notorious and ruthless gangsters escaped capture by donning disguises, living off hidden safety deposit boxes of cash and serving as a secret informant to the FBI - despite being on top of the their most wanted list.

Massachusetts State Police officer Thomas Foley chronicled his decades long hunt for James "Whitey" Bulger in his new book 'Most Wanted,' telling untold stories of Bulger's life on the lam and how it all began in Boston's Southie neighborhood.

"Whitey Bulger has to be the most cold-blooded killer in Boston's history," Mr Foley writes/ "If he isn't, I wouldn't want to know the guy who is."

You can read the story, view photos and watch a video of police surveillence on Bulger via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140379/Revealed-How-Whitey-Bulger-evaded-police-50-years--help-Batmobile-style-car-created-smokescreen.html

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Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and Counterterrorism magazine, and he writes the magazine's online 'Threatcon' column. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. His crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer. He also worked part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist during this time. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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