Two former organized-crime enforcers from Massachusetts will not have to worry about being executed, at least not by the government, if a jury convicts them of smashing Whitey Bulger's head in not long after he arrived at a federal prison in West Virginia in 2018. Read more.
Two convicted Mob enforcers and a third prisoner at a federal penitentiary in West Virginia were indicted yesterday for the murder of Whitey Bulger just 12 hours after he was transferred there from a Florida facility. Read more.
A Suffolk County grand jury today Michael Lewis, now 61, for the July, 1984, murder of Brian Watson, whose body was found by the side of I-93 in Manchester NH after he'd been shot to death in South Boston, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
NBC News reports on gushing comments Whitey Bulger wrote about the president.
Whitey Bulger no longer a threat to anyone. The Globe reports he was murdered.
The Montreal Gazette talks to former Canadiens enforcer Chris "Knuckles" Nilan about "Black Mass." Seems Nilan was once married to Whitey's stepdaughter, so he's obviously qualified to talk about the movie. Also, he's "a product of Boston’s rough-and-tumble West Roxbury," the Gazette reports. Read more.
Depp (in salmon) shakes hands on Harvard Street. Photo by Brookline PD.
Brookline Police have been chronicling the arrival of Black Mass stars at the Coolidge Corner - and handling crowd control - this evening, for the movie's premiere.
Robert Fitzpatrick testified as a Bulger witness and now he faces potential prison time himself, WHDH reports.
Innocent, etc.
Yep, it's the trailer for the Johnny Depp version of the Whitey Bulger story.
H/t Patty Palmer.
Southie Spots shows us the road in front of South Boston High School tonight - repainted for filming for the murdering-thug biopic (you may recall how said serial killer shot up the Globe for its support of busing).
Eileen Murphy marveled at this dapper would-be don at the auditions for the movie version of Black Mass at the old Bayside Expo Center yesterday.
She adds: "You know it's a Southie movie when a Hollywood hopeful brings a space saver to the casting call for Black Mass!"
Paul Nutting Jr. spied the line of people at the old Bayside Expo Center hoping for an extra's role in the Johnny Depp biopic about everybody's favorite murdering psychopathic mobster.
Emily Murphy shows us the notice she got from the producers of Black Mass, the Johnny Depp movie based on the Whitey book by two former Globe reporters, not the script being worked on by Affleck and Damon.
Ben Affleck is directing a pilot for Fox:
Set in ’60s Boston, the drama follows FBI agent Rudy MacAteer and his informant, Irish-American gangster Mickey Flood. In his effort to take down the Italian-American mafia, MacAteer finds himself breaking the law. Eventually, he and Flood pave the way for the rise of the Irish-American mob.
The Globe's Milton Valencia is tweeting the jury's findings as they're read.
Click on this link to watch: http://bcove.me/pnyb87tj
Stephen "Stippo" Rakes, who claimed he was allegedly extorted for his Morrissey Boulevard Liquor Store by Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemming, and Kevin Weeks, was found dead on Mill Street in Lincoln, MA.
Rakes who had been slated to appear as a witness for Carmen Ortiz found out on Tuesday that he would not be called as a witness. Last week, Kevin Weeks testified that Whitey did not extort Rakes but instead it was Rakes who tried to extort Whitey.
Every single reporter covering the Bulger trial is, of course, livetweeting the testimony. For the most part, the tweets, by their very nature, are just brief little nuggets of testimony (last week, during testimony on some of the murders, it was like a horror remake of "Groundhog Day" as each reporter followed the other with basically the same exact description of a bullet in the head or a rope that was too thick, over and over again).
But sometimes ...
WGBH provides this animated re-enactment of the cursive exchange at the Bulger trial the other day. Will they be animating the descriptions of the rope that was too thick to strangle somebody?
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