In this video I visit the Santa Monica home of the Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, who was captured at this residence after 15 years on the run. I take you on a tour of the grounds and show you some VERY interesting pictures of what he had inside the condo.
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James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an Irish-American organized crime boss, gangster, and FBI informant, who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill district of Somerville, Massachusetts. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 murders based on grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former associates. Bulger was the brother of William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts Senate.According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bulger served as a confidential informant for the FBI beginning in 1975, a claim Bulger denied.However, as a result, the FBI largely ignored his organization in exchange for information about the inner workings of the rival Italian-American Patriarca crime family.Beginning in 1997, the media exposed criminal actions by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials tied to Bulger. For the FBI especially, this caused great embarrassment.
Authorities received a tip from a woman in Iceland that Bulger was living in an apartment near a beach in Santa Monica.The Boston Globe identified the tipster as Anna Björnsdóttir, a former model, actress, and Miss Iceland 1974, who lived in Bulger’s neighborhood. A day later, “using a ruse, agents and other task force members lured Mr. Bulger out of his apartment”, “arrested him ‘without incident’, then went in the house and arrested Greig”. Bulger was charged with murder, “conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, narcotics distribution and money-laundering”. Agents found “more than $800,000 in cash, 30 firearms, and fake IDs” at the apartment. Carmen Ortiz, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said “she believes the death penalty is not an option in the federal charges Bulger faces in her district, but that he could face the death penalty for two cases outside the district”. In Oklahoma, where Bulger is alleged to have ordered the killing of businessman Roger Wheeler Sr., in 1981, Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris said, “It is our intention to bring Bulger to justice and to be held accountable for the murder of Mr. Wheeler” In Florida, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said, “After a 16-year delay, I will be working to ensure that a Miami jury has the opportunity to look [Bulger] in the eyes and determine his fate”.[
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