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(CNN)James "Whitey" Bulger, the notorious and much-feared former Boston mob boss, was killed Tuesday morning at the US Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, officials told CNN.

His life apparently ended the way he lived it -- violently. The FBI is investigating the death, which occurred a day after his transfer to the facility in West Virginia, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Bulger, 89, was found unresponsive at 8:20 a.m., according to a statement from the prisons bureau. He was pronounced dead by the Preston County medical examiner after failed life-saving measures.
"Hopefully the seven years he spent in prison as well as his recent death brings some closure to the families of his many victims," Brian Kelly, one of the former federal prosecutors who tried Bulger, said in a statement.
 
 
Bulger, who eluded federal authorities for more than 16 years before his arrest in June 2011, was serving the rest of his life in prison for a litany of crimes that included his role in 11 murders.
He was sentenced in November 2013 to two life terms plus five years for his role as architect of a criminal enterprise that, in the words of a federal judge, committed "unfathomable" acts that terrorized a city.
A federal jury convicted Bulger that year of 31 counts, including racketeering, extortion, money laundering, drug dealing and weapons possession. The jury found him culpable in 11 killings from 1973 through 1985.
His death marks a final chapter in the life of one of the country's most infamous criminals and fugitives.
 
A man who lived by violence, vengeance and intimidation, Bulger would not make eye contact at his sentencing with the relatives of the people he'd killed, nor those who were slain by his accomplices in the treacherous Winter Hill Gang.
 
As they called him a coward, a rat, a punk and Satan, Bulger kept his head down and showed no emotion as he scribbled on a pad. The statements of victims chronicled some of the darkest years of Boston history.
 
"The testimony of human suffering that you and your associates inflicted on others was at times agonizing to hear and painful to watch," US District Judge Denise Casper said at the hearing. "At times, I wish we were watching a movie, that what we were hearing was not real. But as the families of victims know all too well, it's not a movie."
 
At his trial, Bulger snarled, hissed and scowled at prosecutors and witnesses. At one point, he and onetime enforcer Kevin Weeks shouted obscenities at each other when Weeks called Bulger a "rat" during his testimony.
Bulger was captured in California a decade and a half after skipping town ahead of a pending indictment.
 
After he fled, investigators learned that the longtime South Boston gang leader had been an FBI informant and that Bulger's FBI handler had not only tipped him off to the charges but also gave up another informant, who was later killed.
 
Bulger's brother William, meanwhile, had risen from the family's blue-collar Irish neighborhood to become president of the Massachusetts Senate and head of the University of Massachusetts.But he was forced to resign from the school in 2003 after admitting to a congressional committee he had spoken to his brother while he was on the run, though he denied any knowledge of his sibling's whereabouts or alleged criminal activity.
 
Whitey Bulger denied being an informant, even as he insisted he'd had an immunity deal with the former head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force in New England. Prosecutors countered that with a 700-page file outlining how Bulger provided information on murders, drug deals, armed robberies and criminal fugitives that led to several arrests.
 
The tale became the basis for the 2006 Oscar-winning film "The Departed," which starred Jack Nicholson as a character modeled on Bulger. In 2015, actor Johnny Depp played Bulger in the film "Black Mass."
In 2016, auctioned items seized from Bulger's Santa Monica, California, apartment raised almost $110,000 to compensate victims' families.
 
Bulger was born September 3, 1929, in Boston.
 
The US Penitentiary Hazelton is a high-security facility housing 1,270 male offenders at Federal Correctional Complex Hazelton.

CNN's Brian Vitagliano, Kristina Sgueglia and Mary Kay Mallonee contributed to this report.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/us/james-whitey-bulger-killed/index.html

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:
 
 A man who lived by violence, vengeance and intimidation, Bulger would not make eye contact at his sentencing with the relatives of the people he'd killed

Definitely not making eye contact, now.

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Not surprised in the least you follow the DPRK on twitter,  you loon. 

 

PS: This prison is only about 30 minutes from Morgantown (just east) right on the MD and PA borders.  Very little around it, and though it is known to be there (more Robert Byrd pork), doesn't seem to make the news often like some of the Supermax prisons like the one in Colorado.  

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Whitey Bulger was targeted for a mob hit and the killers did what mob killers do with so-called "rats" -- they try to cut out their tongue and gouge their eyes out.

 

Sources at the USP Hazelton prison in West Virginia tell TMZ, Bulger was killed in his cell at around 6 AM Tuesday, NOT in a common area as first reported. We're told 4 inmates walked into the cell where Whitey was sitting in his wheelchair. 

 

They brutally beat him with a lock in a sock and used a shiv to try and gouge his eyes out. They also attempted to cut out his tongue. We're told there was a lot of blood in Bulger's mouth but we don't know if the tongue was actually removed. 

 

We're told surveillance cameras captured the 4 inmates walking into Bulger's cell and walking out with their clothes clearly bloodied. The attack was not caught on video.

 

We're told the killers went back to their cells, changed out of their bloody clothes and then walked back to Bulger's cell with a mop and a bucket to clean up the mess.

 

What so very thoughtful gentlemen.

 

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Good.  Fuck Bulger.  And fuck the FBI.  

I used to work with programmer David Wheeler, the son of one of Bulger's victims, Tulsa businessman Roger Wheeler.  So David developed a similarity search algorithm and discovered a whole shit ton of well hidden FBI corruption that directly led to the murder of his Dad.   The FBI admitted at least 7 FBI agents were on Bulger's payroll.  

http://www.newson6.com/story/14966587/son-of-murdered-tulsa-businessmen-reacts-to-mobsters-arrest 

http://originalbuffalodale.com/2013/11/29/david-wheelers-statement-at-whitey-bulger-sentencing/

 

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27 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

look, whitey may have had it coming, but this is an indictment of the federal prison system. how is it possible that a guy gets a padlock in a sock and kills this decrepit old man who is in a wheelchair? things like that should not happen in federal custody.

It’s an indictment of the person who made the decision to put him in gen pop. 

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It’s an indictment of the person who made the decision to put him in gen pop. 

it looks orchestrated on both the inmate and the admin side of things. why was he transferred to the new prison? why was he put in gen pop in a prison well known for a little bit of the the ultraviolence? how could the prepare and execute beating him to death within a day of his arrival?

it's a breakdown on multiple levels, and it looks intentional on all of them.

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2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

it looks orchestrated on both the inmate and the admin side of things. why was he transferred to the new prison? why was he put in gen pop in a prison well known for a little bit of the the ultraviolence? how could the prepare and execute beating him to death within a day of his arrival?

it's a breakdown on multiple levels, and it looks intentional on all of them.

Yeah, despite what a piece of shit this guy is, sending him in there to be brutally murdered is deplorable. 

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Oh, organized crime guys invent more criminal activity to feed to the feds to make sure they can pretend to have enough shit to hunt down to keep their budgets growing?  Big fucking shock.  If you knew how many times, "C.I." came up at procurement hearings for law enforcement at all levels, you'd never pay your taxes again.  

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Supposedly he was making threats to the warden and others at his previous prison so that's why he was transferred. Supposedly this new prison is well known to be extremely dangerous due to understaffing. Still seems like there is more to it though

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Disciplinary issues prompted the transfer of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger to the federal prison where he was beaten to death within hours of his arrival, a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.

An official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that the 89-year-old former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant was transferred to USP Hazelton in West Virginia after causing problems at the prison in Florida, where he had been serving a life sentence for participating in 11 killings.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wmur.com/article/official-discipline-issues-led-to-whitey-bulgers-transfer/24551434

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On 11/2/2018 at 11:10 AM, Updawg said:

Supposedly he was making threats to the warden and others at his previous prison so that's why he was transferred. Supposedly this new prison is well known to be extremely dangerous due to understaffing. Still seems like there is more to it though

Making threats against a warden and get transferred to a more dangerous hell hole where he’s killed within hours. Seems like he shoulda behaved better at the first place. Seriously, I wonder if they knew something was likely to happen when he got transferred. I’ve got no problem with it. 

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35 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

Making threats against a warden and get transferred to a more dangerous hell hole where he’s killed within hours. Seems like he shoulda behaved better at the first place. Seriously, I wonder if they knew something was likely to happen when he got transferred. I’ve got no problem with it. 

So an 89 year old wheel chair bound inmate made the warden feel threatened?  Sounds legit.

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