Bulger

JAMES CARROLL’S comment that Whitey Bulger “perfectly embodied what William Butler Yeats called the ‘antithetical self’ ’’ represents an apparent misunderstanding of Yeats’s concept (“The last act in an Irish tragedy,’’ Op-ed, June 25). The antithetical self doesn’t have to do with one’s enmities, as Carroll suggests, perhaps confusing Yeats’s notion with Carl Jung’s idea of the “shadow’’ self. In Yeats’s metaphysics, the antithetical self refers to those characteristics that are the exact opposite of one’s natural or primary self.

A federal judge refused Tuesday to release a lien on the South Boston home of Catherine Greig's twin sister, saying Greig has an interest in the property that could be seized when she is sentenced next month for harboring gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Margaret McCusker, Greig's 61-year-old sister, had argued that the lien on the home, in which she has a majority interest, has disrupted her finances. She has no access to her home equity line, for instance, in what her lawyer called a "banking nightmare.

The families of James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged victims say it's upsetting, but not surprising that the aging gangster has invited Hollywood actor and producer Mark Wahlberg to visit him at the Plymouth jail. "It's disgusting that he would be asking someone to come up and hear his story for profit," said Billy St. Croix, whose sister was allegedly killed by Bulger and St. Croix's gangster father, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi. Wahlberg, a Dorchester native, startled listeners during an interview Friday on The Hill-Man Morning Show on WAAF radio when he revealed that he'd been...

The relatives of one of James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged victims asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow a lawsuit they filed against four FBI agents to proceed in the court, the latest step in what they called their long, frustrating journey to hold the agents responsible for protecting the notorious gangster. "Eleven years is a long time we've been fighting this case," said Tom Donahue, the son of homicide victim Michael Donahue. The Donahue family and the family representing alleged Bulger victim Edward "Brian" Halloran had already won multimillion-dollar lawsuits...

GRAND ISLE, La. -- He didn't look like a gangster. Grandfatherly was more like it, what with his receding gray hair, Bing Crosby-style straw hat, windbreaker and khakis. He was staying on this small Louisiana resort island on the Gulf of Mexico during the off-season with his girlfriend, an attractive blonde about 20 years his junior, in a beachfront duplex called "It's Our Dream. " He liked to play with neighbor Penny Gautreaux's two black Labrador retrievers, so she didn't hesitate to invite him to dinner when he smelled her Cajun cooking and joked, "Do you have enough for us?"

IN 1995, the year James “Whitey’’ Bulger went on the lam, a small group of families in South Boston organized a solemn vigil for Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day, to commemorate all those who died too young in our neighborhood. The group immediately turned into a support system for bereaved families. Named the innocuous-sounding South Boston Vigil Group, we weren’t yet saying the unspeakable: drugs, crime, and murder. But when we printed up a list of the deceased from our own memories of constant wakes and funerals for Southie’s young, we sat and stared at more than 250 names.

J ames J. "Whitey" Bulger's name will always be associated with South Boston, but the aging gangster is no stranger to the suburbs south of the city. Long before he became a fugitive from justice, Bulger made his home in Quincy with his girlfriend, Catherine Greig. The couple shared a condo off Quincy Shore Drive in the early 1980s. A few years later, when Greig moved into a gray split-level ranch in Squantum, Bulger hung his hat there. The area's most notorious mobster is accused, among other things, of shaking down a Dedham restaurant owner and burying two...

The longtime girlfriend of reputed Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has pleaded not guilty to helping him elude authorities during 16 years as a fugitive. Catherine Greig entered her not plea Thursday in a brief appearance in U.S. District Court. She also waived a reading of the indictment. She was indicted last week on a charge of conspiracy to harbor and conceal a fugitive, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of five years. The 60-year-old Greig has been held since she and Bulger were captured in June in Santa Monica, Calif.

James "Whitey Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig, is considering pleading guilty to helping the gangster evade capture for more than 16 years, according to several relatives of Bulger's alleged victims. Steven Davis, whose sister Debra was one of 19 people allegedly murdered by Bulger, said a victims' advocate for the US Attorney's office told him Friday that Greig's lawyers have indicated she wants to plead guilty to the single charge of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive. "There is no plea bargain," said Davis, adding that he has been told Greig has not been given a deal by...

Federal prosecutors moved yesterday to dismiss a 1995 racketeering indictment against James “Whitey’’ Bulger, saying they want to make sure the 81-year-old stands trial for the most serious charges, the slayings of 19 people. “The 19 families of murder victims have been denied justice for many years because the defendant has successfully eluded law enforcement apprehension,’’ US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz wrote in the dismissal motion. The evidence in the earlier case is weaker, two key witnesses have died, and prosecuting it would divert resources from...

The family of one of James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged victims today asked a federal judge to allow a lawsuit they filed against four FBI agents to proceed in the courts, saying they are continuing their long, frustrating journey to hold the agents for responsible for protecting the notorious gangster. The family of Michael Donahue and the family of Edward "Brian" Halloran had won multi-million-dollar lawsuits against the federal government for the FBI's role in protecting Bulger...

Family members of one of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged victims are due in court to try to continue their lawsuit against former FBI officials. The family of Michael Donahue will ask U.S. District Judge William Young if its lawsuit can proceed alleging civil rights violations against individual FBI agents. Bulger was a longtime FBI informant. His cohort, Stephen Flemmi, has testified Bulger killed Edward "Brian" Halloran after former FBI Agent John Connolly Jr. warned them that Halloran was cooperating with the FBI against them.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal over whether the family of a man allegedly killed by former Boston mob boss and FBI informant James ‘‘Whitey" Bulger should get millions of dollars from the government. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Edward Brian Halloran's estate, which wants more than $2 million in damages from the FBI. Bulger and another gang member are alleged to have shot Halloran on the waterfront in 1982. Bulger was an FBI informant at the time, and two judges ordered the FBI to pay damages to the families.

If you want to understand shoe-leather police investigation at its very best, pick up "Most Wanted. " For two decades, Thomas Foley, a former head of the Massachusetts State Police, pursued Whitey Bulger's criminal organization from the bottom up, carefully following the money trail and tracing multiple murders right to Bulger's door. Foley was first assigned to the State Police organized crime unit in 1984, rose through the ranks, and retired in 2004. He takes readers so deep inside his investigation that we feel we're part of it, listening in on wiretaps from Bulger-associated bookies, mapping out...

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To retired state police Col. Thomas J. Foley, the book he co-authored with John Sedgwick, "Most Wanted," is as much about the search for reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger as it is about the failures of the federal agencies involved. Foley, 57, who served as superintendent of the state police and retired in 2004, spent 20 years building a case against Bulger, but got pushback from the FBI, an organization Foley discovered was protecting its informant. "I couldn't believe how the good guys were bad guys," Foley said in a recent interview.

The title of Jay Bulger's film about Ginger Baker, the legendarily eccentric drummer for Cream, is "Beware of Mr. Baker. " And for good reason. The film, which screens Monday at the Somerville Theatre as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston, includes a scene in which Bulger, a first-time filmmaker, is assaulted by Baker. "As I was leaving, he hit me in the face with his cane and broke my nose," says the director, sounding proud to have caught the kerfuffle on film. "Ginger has a hard time saying goodbye to people.