Stench From Whitey Bulger's Garage Finally Out

Howie Carr at the Boston Herald is covering the Whitey Bulger trial in Boston.

Thirty-three years — that’s how long the state police had to wait to use their Lancaster Street garage surveillance as evidence in court. But it was worth the wait, because it puts the lie to Whitey’s contention that he barely even knew any Mafia types.

The FBI was aware of the garage as early as January 1980. In a routine 209 report, the G-men mentioned that Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi had gotten a hot car out of the garage to use in their alleged murder of Stevie Hughes’ son, a Charlestown bank robber.

But the FBI had zero interest in following up, or even in informing the staties that there was a new organized-crime clubhouse in the West End. The state cops found it on their own a few months later, set up shop and began taking these film-noir photos. 

Eventually the state police even planted a bug in the couch in the office, but somebody plopped down heavily on the sofa and crushed the bug.

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

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2013/06/carr_stench_from_garage_finally_out

You can also read my Washington Times review of Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2012/08/most-wanted-pursuing-whitey-bulger.html

Whitey Bulger Defense Grills Investigator About Hit Man Witness, FBI Interference

The Boston Globe is covering the Whitey Bulger trial in Boston.

James “Whitey” Bulger’s defense attorney sought to raise questions about the credibility of a key witness in the trial of the notorious gangster, winning an acknowledgment from a retired State Police official that the witness, a convicted hit man, had not agreed to testify about everything he knew.

“There were some people he was not going to offer evidence against,” said Thomas Foley, the retired State Police colonel who sprearheaded the investigation that resulted in charges against Bulger in 1995 that ended Bulger’s alleged reign of terror in Boston’s underworld.

Defense attorney Hank Brennan cross-examined Foley about John Martorano, one of three former associates of Bulger who are expected to offer crucial but flawed testimony — crucial because they were once in league with Bulger, but flawed because they have been convicted of crimes themselves, including murder or being an accessory to murder.

Martorano admitted to committing 20 murders between 1965 and 1982, some at the behest of Bulger or his right-hand man Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi. Martorano served 12 years and 2 months in prison after agreeing to testify for the government.

Bulger, 83, is charged in 32 counts of a racketeering indictment that alleges that while running a criminal enterprise from 1972 to 2000, he participated in 19 murders; extorted bookmakers and drug dealers, and businessmen; laundered his criminal profits through real estate transactions; and stockpiled an arsenal of weapons.

His legend grew when he eluded a worldwide manhunt for 16 years after the indictment in 1995 and when it was learned that he had been protected by the FBI, which considered him a prized informant.

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

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/06/13/whitey-bulger-trial-resumes-with-testimony-from-retired-detective-who-led-surveillance/7vDYG6RTx6d8Nl6jHhxUQK/story.html

Note: I reviewed Thomas Foley's book Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected for the Washington Times.

You can read the review via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2012/08/most-wanted-pursuing-whitey-bulger.html

'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