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Whitey Bulger arrested!!

  • 23-06-2011 05:57AM
    #1
    kraggy
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    James "Whitey" Bolger, the notorious Irish-American gang leader from Boston, and til now, the no.2 (after Bin Laden) on the FBI's most-wanted list for years, has been arrested in California.

    I have followed this guy's story for years. For those of you who don't know, he was the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed and has been on the run since the 90's.

    Just in the last few days, the FBI started broadcasting tv ads during programmes watched by older women in an effort to track down his partner. Something must have happened as a result.

    While on the run, it's common knowledge that he hung out in Conamara for some time as well as places in other European countries. Coincidentally, his former partner in crime, now arch enemy Pat Nee is originally from Rosmuc in Galway too.

    Also, Jim Sheridan is in the middle of making a movie about him. He'll have to change the script a little now!

    I'm shocked. Thought he'd never be caught. Extremely clever man. And violent too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/22/national/main20073558.shtml?tag=stack


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  • #2
    Pierce_1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭Pierce_1991


    Surely Bin Laden's been taken off that list now


  • #3
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Obviously.

    For years him and Bin Laden were numbers 1 and 2.


  • #4
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    kraggy wrote: »
    Pat Nee is originally from RosMuc

    Fear Ros Muc é!


  • #5
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    onemorechance wrote: »
    Fear Ros Muc é!

    Ta bron orm. Deanaim an botun sin a t-am ar fad.


  • #6
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    kraggy wrote: »
    Ta bron orm. Deanaim an botun sin a t-am ar fad.

    Botún beag, ach amháín do lucht ros a mhíl agus ros muc! Go raibh maith agat muid a chuir ar an eolas!

    Big story for the morning!


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  • #7
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Fun Interesting Fact #457

    The FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list is not ranked in order of 1 to 10, its just the ten most wanted people on the FBI's files,

    (Dont ask me how they judge between 10 and 11...)


  • #8
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    im invisible wrote: »
    Fun Interesting Fact #457

    The FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list is not ranked in order of 1 to 10, its just the ten most wanted people on the FBI's files,

    (Dont ask me how they judge between 10 and 11...)

    They probably judge #10 to be more wanted than #11!


  • #9
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Yeah but, there is no number 10, just a group of 10, they are not ranked..??


  • #10
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    im invisible wrote: »
    Yeah but, there is no number 10, just a group of 10, they are not ranked..??

    Well they must have a ranking, otherwise any random Joe Soap who they are looking for could be there, its just that this ranking is not represented in their order in the top 10 list.


  • #11
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    It might not officially be ranked but the amounts of money on offer as reward are greater the lower the number.

    Are you sure they're not ranked?

    Bin Laden and Bulger were no.1 and 2 for years and had the highest rewards.


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  • #12
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭policarp


    Arrested at 81.
    Sure he must have retired years ago...


  • #13
    Hootanany
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    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

    They got him.


  • #14
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    How the fuck did he manage to get in and out of the country? I remember a few years ago there was CCTV of him in London, that article says he's been known to bounce around Europe too. I can't get through US customs without fingerprints and retinal scans yet this tit manages to avoid all that despite being one of the most wanted men in the US?!


  • #15
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    How the fuck did he manage to get in and out of the country? I remember a few years ago there was CCTV of him in London, that article says he's been known to bounce around Europe too. I can't get through US customs without fingerprints and retinal scans yet this tit manages to avoid all that despite being one of the most wanted men in the US?!

    Didn't the scans only come in in the last couple of years?

    He's been back in the States for a few years now it seems. London in 2002 and Italy around the same time.

    So he would have been back before the scans were started.

    Regardless, he's so crafty and slithery that he could nearly get around anything.


  • #16
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The man has been on the run that long, I'm surprised they caught him - but glad they did.


  • #17
    Leftist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    For f-cks sake he's an old man, let by gones be by gones.


  • #18
    Biggins
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    Leftist wrote: »
    For f-cks sake he's an old man, let by gones be by gones.
    Cobblers - tell that to his many victims, their families who might have lost loved ones - and have never seen justice done - at least possibly till now.


  • #19
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Biggins wrote: »
    Cobblers - tell that to his many victims who have lost loved ones.

    Got to agree, age should be no factor when trying to decide whether someone should be arrested and put on trial.


  • #20
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    how the hell was the the inspiration for a character in the departed? the departed is a rip off of a korean movie


  • #21
    evil_seed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    I thought they'd never get him.


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  • #22
    Leftist
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Cobblers - tell that to his many victims, their families who might have lost loved ones - and have never seen justice done - at least possibly till now.
    That was ages ago I'm sure they've forgotten.

    Free the Southie 1.


  • #23
    Leftist
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    how the hell was the the inspiration for a character in the departed? the departed is a rip off of a korean movie



    INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCorrect.

    It was a Hong Kong production and the character of Jack N was based loosely, oh so loosely on Mr Bulger.


  • #24
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    how the hell was the the inspiration for a character in the departed? the departed is a rip off of a korean movie

    I guess when it was ported over for Western audiences they looked for an American criminal organisation they could base it off.


  • #25
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Leftist wrote: »
    INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCorrect.

    It was a Hong Kong production and the character of Jack N was based loosely, oh so loosely on Mr Bulger.

    all those asians look alike anyway


  • #26
    Biggins
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    Leftist wrote: »
    That was ages ago I'm sure they've forgotten.
    I nominate that for the most stupidest post of the day - and its only 9am!


  • #27
    theteal
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    Just had a quick glance at the wiki page. Has anyone ever seen "the brotherhood"? Irish American family, 1 brother gangster, 1 brother politician (the creepiest scene of elderly intimacy ever shown on tv - shudder). Great show all the same. I can't help but feel Mr. Bolger may have been an influence behind that.


  • #28
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    theteal wrote: »
    Just had a quick glance at the wiki page. Has anyone ever seen "the brotherhood"? Irish American family, 1 brother gangster, 1 brother politician (the creepiest scene of elderly intimacy ever shown on tv - shudder). Great show all the same. I can't help but feel Mr. Bolger may have been an influence behind that.
    The premise was inspired by the real-life Bulger brothers from Massachusetts: William M. Bulger was a prominent state politician and his brother, James J. Bulger, was the leader of the Irish-American crime family Winter Hill Gang.
    - Brotherhood Wiki


  • #29
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Bet he'll pull the " too old and now has a terminal illness" card to avoid trial and prison.


  • #30
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Bet he'll pull the " too old and now has a terminal illness" card to avoid trial and prison.
    Indeed. All of a sudden like there will be a medical report that "O' the poor man is suffering!"
    ...And he will then get what millions in America can't afford even in basic format - medical care.


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  • #31
    jester77
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    kraggy wrote: »
    Obviously.

    For years him and Bin Laden were numbers 1 and 2.

    After all the years of playing runner up to Bin Laden, the poor lad didn't get long to enjoy his # 1 status


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