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2018-10-31 -Obits-
Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger killed in prison at 89 years old: reports
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Posted by Fred 2018-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 There seems to be two explanations about Bulger's death - a mob hit by a connected prisoner or negligence / deliberate malfeasance by certain former Boston area US Attorneys. Both explanations are plausible.

Without further research, I tend to discount the alleged (direct) connection between Lynch & Bulger - their age difference alone explains that.
Posted by Raj 2018-10-31 00:41||   2018-10-31 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 I should expand on that a bit - the unusual movement of a 89 year-old wheelchair bound inmate with a well-known heart problem from a Florida prison to an Oklahoma prison and then to a West Virginia prison (where three prisoners just happened to have been murdered in recent months) in a matter of weeks makes it plausible to think the FBI moved him there on purpose to avoid Bulger revealing certain embarrassing information about that organization.
Posted by Raj 2018-10-31 00:52||   2018-10-31 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 It's looking like Whitey was wacked with a padlock in a sock from a Genovese connected hit man. The connection may be tenuous and the hitter was operating freelance.
Posted by regular joe 2018-10-31 10:54||   2018-10-31 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 One could believe this was a hit to silence Whitey. Or is it the settling of an old score?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-10-31 12:15||   2018-10-31 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Whitey was awfully familiar with the corruptness of the FBI. Now that you mention it, why did it take 16 years for them to find him in CA?
Posted by regular joe 2018-10-31 15:09||   2018-10-31 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 One could believe this was a hit to silence Whitey. Or is it the settling of an old score?

Two birds, one stone. Given the whole Whitey saga, it's not hard to imagine someone's FBI handler saying "Do this for us and we'd be... grateful"
Posted by SteveS 2018-10-31 15:26||   2018-10-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 A rhyme of feds, Eyeties, and Celts;
Of Seals, locks and laces and belts;
Of pelts tied up tidy
And wrapping up Whitey...
They'd never fight anyone else!
Posted by Ebbusosing the Full Bosomed7594 2018-10-31 16:56||   2018-10-31 16:56|| Front Page Top

#8 FBI moved him there on purpose to avoid Bulger revealing certain embarrassing information about that organization

Spot on! Mueller must have borrowed some hit men from the Clintons. Snark off.

Mueller-Connected Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Killed in Prison... As He Was About to Out FBI Officials
Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-31 18:52||   2018-10-31 18:52|| Front Page Top

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