Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Lets Nature Do His Dirty Work

In Howie Carr's column in the Boston Herald he offers a view of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's defense strategy. 

The feds have it wrong. Whitey Bulger isn’t trying to stall his trial until he dies.

He’s trying to stall it until all the witnesses against him die.

“Won’t work,” said one of his former colleagues. “Too many witnesses.”

But they’re very old, most of them. The Winter Hill Gang is now the Over the Hill Gang. And sure enough, one of the ex-cons the feds were hoping would testify against him has just passed on.

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

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20221007whitey_lets_nature_do_his_dirty_work_bulgers_best_shot_is_witnesses_dying_from_old_age

Mat Damon And Ben Affleck To Make Film About Boston Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger

Amy Wallace at GQ.com reports that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are planning to make a film about James "Whitey" Bulger.

Damon will portray Bulger and Affleck will direct.

Just days after Matt Damon confirmed that he's settled on his first directing project, the actor tells GQ that he and Ben Affleck have also chosen their next collaboration: a movie about the reputed former godfather of the Irish Mob, one of the coldest, most ruthless figures in the history of organized crime.

"We're doing a Whitey Bulger movie," Damon says of the leader of South Boston's Winter Hill Gang, who had been on the lam for 16 years and was wanted for 19 murders, among other things, when he was apprehended in Santa Monica in June. "Warner's got it for us."

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

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201110/whitey-bulger-matt-damon-ben-affleck-irish-mob