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Appeals court once again rejects verdict against FBI for role in two Bulger murders
By adamg - 10/6/11 - 7:54 pmThe US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit today upheld an earlier decision to toss an $8.5 million verdict against the FBI for its role in letting Whitey Bulger and his henchmen kill an informant and the guy who was giving him a ride home, saying the families filed their lawsuit three weeks after the expiration of the statute of limitations.
In February, a three-judge panel overturned a lower-court award to the families of Brian Halloran and Michael Donahue. In the ruling today, the entire court voted 5-2 to reject the families' request for a rehearing.
FBI Most Wanted; JAMES J. BULGER; 19 Counts Murder
By Anonymous - 6/23/11 - 2:32 am
RT @realdealneal: Boston Globe front page tomorrow http://tinypic.com/r/2dch1ts/7 #whitey #bulger
Boston gangster surrenders quietly in Calif. after 16 years on run: Fugitive mobster James “Whitey" Bulger was arrested last night at a house in Santa Monica after 16 years on the run, police said early this morning. The 81-year-old Bulger, charged with 19 murders, did not put up any resistance.
The announcement came two days after the FBI unveiled a new television ad blitz to help find the fugitive couple. A tipster who saw the public service announcement urging the public to be on the lookout for Bulger’s girlfriend, Catherine Greig, alerted the FBI yesterday that Bulger and Greig were staying at a house in Santa Monica, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
So does the tipster get the $2,000,000 reward?
Chuck Turner's Past May Come Back To Haunt Him Before Election Day '09!
By Williams35 - 8/31/09 - 8:02 pmThe framing of United States soldiers; The racial attacks towards a Latina Candidate; The refusal to shovel snow off a Boston City sidewalk; The stealing of Massachusetts tax paying cold hard cash of $1000, caught on FBI video camera along with Diane Wilkerson stealing $25.000.00 accepting bribes.
Appeals court upholds $102 million verdict for men sent away for murder they didn't commit
By adamg - 8/27/09 - 11:13 pmThe First US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the verdict against the government for the way the FBI withheld evidence that would have exonerated four men who spent several decades in jail for a gangland slaying - two of whom actually died in jail.
Blogging the wrongful imprisonment lawsuit against the FBI
By adamg - 1/26/07 - 3:38 pmFormer Herald reporter J.M. Lawrence is blogging the lawsuit by the families of four men imprisoned in the 1960s for a gang murder they didn't commit - the FBI had evidence to exonerate them, but withheld it from prosecutors to hide the real killer, an FBI informant.
