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Man: Thirty years ago, my wife and I
purchased a liquor license.
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Then we had the liquor store up
and running by Christmas.
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We poured our heart and soul in it.
And then, lo and behold,
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I get a knock on my door
one night, I'm at the house,
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my wife's down at the liquor store
working, and it was Kevin Weeks
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and Whitey Bulger at the door,
and I didn't know,
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what the hell do they want?
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"You got a problem. "
I said, "I don't... what problem?"
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He says, "Listen,
we were hired to kill you. "
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I'm like, what?
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He said, you got to understand,
the other liquor stores,
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they hired us to kill you.
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I just couldn't believe it,
I didn't know what to even think,
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I was dumbfounded.
Actually, I froze.
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He said, "But what we're going to do
instead of that, we're just going to
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become your partners. " I said, "No,
you're not becoming my partners. "
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And then, Bulger's right there.
He's just staring at me,
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and just grinding his teeth like,
"You don't understand,
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we're taking
the fucking liquor store. "
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I was like, "It's not for sale. "
He said, "I'll fucking kill you.
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I'll stab you, and then I'll kill you. "
I'm like, Holy Jesus.
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And then they pulled out a gun.
I was like, "Oh, fuck. "
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They picked up my kid.
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Daughter was a year.
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He said, "It would be terrible
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for this kid to grow up without a father. "
I was like... and I melted.
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Nothing you can do.
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Ever since that day,
I've never been the same.
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I couldn't protect my own children.
As a man, that just took me away.
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And I'm not over it yet.
I won't be over, and maybe I'll never
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get over it, but I surely can't wait
to get in front of that court,
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on that stand and testify
against that. 30 years ago,
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he scared me to death, he don't
scare me to death no more.
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Woman: After 16 years, the FBl
finally has its man.
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Boston mob boss James Whitey Bulger
was captured in Southern California.
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Man:... along with his longtime girlfriend,
Catherine Elizabeth Greig.
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The 83-year-old
is accused of drug trafficking,
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extortion and murder, all while
working as an FBl informant.
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He was on the lam for 16 years.
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I never committed a crime in the
16 years that I was with Catherine.
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My whole life changed
when I was with her.
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I turned and become very,
very human, I guess you'd say it.
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And I love the woman intensely.
When I was captured, I told them,
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"If you people," I says, "will let Catherine
go, I'll plead guilty to all crimes. "
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"Any crime," I says, "innocent
or guilty. Youse can execute me,
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you can give me life sentence,
you can do whatever youse want,
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but I want her to be free. "
And I meant it, and I mean it today.
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If they said to me,
"Plead guilty, and we'll
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let her go free and shut your mouth,"
I would do it.
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Woman: It's been a long time coming.
After 16 years on the lam
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and two years in custody,
the criminal trial of James Whitey Bulger
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began today at the John J. Moakley
courthouse in South Boston,
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just blocks away from
Whitey's former home turf.
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Man: This is what it looked like here
at the courthouse earlier this morning.
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A police escort and several black
SUVs roll up to federal court.
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Behind the tinted windows,
James Whitey Bulger,
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who is back in Boston to face
19 charges of murder
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in the same city he's accused
of terrorizing as a gang boss.
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Man 2: Some of the victims' families
also arriving today,
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hoping to see justice done
after waiting almost 30 years.
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I'm happy that this is about to start.
It's been a long wait.
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A really, really long wait in time.
So, I'll see youse when I get out.
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How are you going to
feel being in there?
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I don't know.
Sick to my stomach now,
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I can only imagine
when I get in there.
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Woman: Prosecutors describe
James Whitey Bulger as the center
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of mayhem and murder in Boston
for 30 years,
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as the boss of Boston's
notorious Winter Hill Gang.
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A man so dangerous that he
joined Osama Bin Laden
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at the top of the FBl's
Most Wanted list.
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It was the gang that ran amok. You
have people who were being extorted,
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who talked of having shotgun
barrels stuck in their mouths,
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of machine guns
pointed at their groin.
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Boeri: Body bags shown them
before Bulger shakes them down.
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It was absolute terror.
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Back then, 70s, 80s, people
were missing every day, bang.
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He didn't come home,
he's a dead man.
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They're never going to find him.
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Brian Howell. Dead.
Michael Donahue. Dead.
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Bodies were being,
left and right.
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And were all involved
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in this circle of shit
in South Boston.
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Man: And you have a fascination
with Whitey Bulger
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as a Robin Hood figure, this elusive,
Houdini-like crime boss,
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whose younger brother, Bill Bulger,
was Senate President,
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the most powerful
politician in Massachusetts.
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All this stuff that was sort of
magical about him
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that made him seem
beyond the reach of law enforcement.
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Man: There were over 25 years
where James Bulger ruled
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the organized crime world.
He was never charged
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with even a misdemeanor.
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The Department of Justice
did nothing to prosecute him.
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Woman: Whitey was the guy
that got away. Whitey was the guy
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out in the wind, thumbing his nose,
"Ha-ha, I won," for years.
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So today is huge. I mean,
I think that, you know, what...
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There's so many people who never
thought this day would ever happen.
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Man: James Whitey Bulger fled Boston
in late 1994, as federal agents
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were about to arrest him
in connection with 19 killings,
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racketeering, and other crimes that
spanned the early 1970s to mid 1980s.
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Man 2: He fled after being
tipped off by an FBl agent.
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He was about to be indicted.
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Woman: Bulger's role as an FBl
informant is central to this trial.
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Man 3: Now he'll face justice
in the same city
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many say he ran with an iron fist.
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I'll be honest with you,
I have today's date, June 12th.
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But lately, I couldn't...
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The past few days,
I couldn't tell you what,
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and it's the God's truth,
I couldn't tell you
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if it was Sunday, Monday,
Friday. It's... I was...
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Man: How come?
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My head's been so twisted over all this.
You know, it's like... surreal.
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You know, it's...
it's happening.
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Whitey killed my sister.
She was looked upon as a good person.
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She'd come in the room and she'd,
she'd light it up.
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"Hey. " You know, "Everybody... "
You know, it's...
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He had no right to take her life.
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And he took her teeth out,
her hands, and...
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Woman: Mike was killed 30 years ago.
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But, you know, I think when you
lose somebody, there's no time.
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Sometimes it just seems
like yesterday.
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I don't think he should've
died when he died.
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He had too much to live for.
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You know, the day he was killed,
he was looking for my son Michael
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to take him with him.
But, he was down the park,
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and he couldn't find him.
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So I said, just, you know,
"Just go without him. "
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Thank God, you know. I guess there's
a reason for everything, you know.
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Davis: Did you get a haircut?
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Get over here,
I want to introduce you.
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Look it, I didn't know I was
supposed to get all dressed up.
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- I just got a shirt on.
- Jesus Christ.
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- Today, I feel fantastic.
- Man: How come?
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Well, 30 years ago, they
tormented me, and it's been
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30 years of torment, and now it's
coming to an end.
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Thank God he's behind bars.
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My father always told me that good
will always triumph over evil.
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Even if it takes a long time.
And that's just what I'm here for.
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- We don't forget.
- Rakes: No.
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- No.
- You know what I mean?
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The only kind of comfort I get
through this is talking with him.
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You know, me and Steve
meet every morning,
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just about every morning for coffee.
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That's why Steve and I,
we have something in common,
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this psychotic individual.
We're going to bring justice,
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it has to be done.
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Finally payback.
As nervous as I am, exciting,
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the adrenaline is pumping, I just can't,
I can't believe I'm finally here.
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I finally get to stop.
I'll have my day, my time.
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Woman: Gentleman, let me ask you
just to say a few words
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as you're going in,
what your thoughts are.
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Anxious. The day has come.
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Man: What are you going to be
thinking as you look at him
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in that courtroom today?
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Well, you know, 30 years ago,
I'd never look at him.
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Now I can't wait to look him
right in the eyes.
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Reporter on radio: It's day one of one of
the most anticipated trials in decades.
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Reporter 2: Cameras should've been
allowed in the courtroom.
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Obviously, in federal court,
they are not allowed.
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Female reporter: For the people of
Boston, this case is about justice.
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It is about redemption,
it is about retribution.
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Opening statements in the trial
of James Whitey Bulger.
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Reporter 3: The Assistant US Attorney,
Brian Kelly, telling jurors.
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Kelly: "He did the dirty work himself,
because he was a hands-on killer
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who ran amok in the city of Boston
for almost 30 years.
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Bulger was deeply involved
in the distribution of drugs
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in the South Boston area.
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Bulger was one of the biggest
informants in Boston.
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Bulger routinely met
with FBl agent John Connolly
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and gave him information
to protect himself,
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or get the competitive edge
that he wanted. "
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Reporter 3: He then showed the jury
pictures of each
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of the 19 people
investigators say Bulger killed.
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Woman: They described victims,
former friends, associates,
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girlfriends, all killed
and buried in secret graves.
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Some relatives in court listening
choked up when they heard that.
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Woman 2: The government,
ending its opening statements
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by slowly, dramatically,
reading off the names
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of the 19 alleged murder victims.
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Man: Bucky Barrett, Roger Wheeler,
Brian Halloran, Michael Donahue,
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John Callahan, Deborah Davis,
and Deborah Hussey.
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Kelly: This is not
a traditional murder case.
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It's a racketeering charge.
And within the racketeering charge,
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there are multiple predicate crimes
that we have to prove.
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We have to prove at least two of them.
And Bulger is charged with 33
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separate predicate crimes.
19 separate murders,
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multiple extortions,
drug dealing, gambling.
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And of those,
we have to prove at least two
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beyond a reasonable doubt,
and we have to prove
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that Bulger was part of
this criminal enterprise
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that was committing
all these crimes for 30 years.
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Man: Defense attorney J.W. Carney
stunned the courtroom, admitting
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for the first time that Bulger was
involved in drug trafficking.
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Carney: James Bulger was involved
in drug dealing. He was involved in
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bookmaking, loan sharking.
These crimes are what he did.
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Man: But he poked holes
in government witnesses.
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Woman: Carney tried to paint
a picture of Bulger associates
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turned government witnesses,
John Martorano, Kevin Weeks,
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and Steven Flemmi
as the real murderers
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who just pinned their crimes
on his client.
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Boeri: The defense said, all those three
witnesses' testimony was purchased.
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They were murderous thugs
whose testimony
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was purchased by sparing them
the death penalty,
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cutting their prison sentence,
and offering them all sorts of incentives.
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Given these three individuals,
given their backgrounds,
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given their character, would you believe
them beyond a reasonable doubt?
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Woman: Carney denied
that Bulger was an informant.
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The evidence will show
that he was never an informant
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for John Connolly and the FBl.
You will learn the depth of corruption
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in federal law enforcement that
existed during this period.
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This was how James Bulger was able
to never, ever be charged.
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Boeri: What makes this trial
extraordinary, and really crazy,
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the defense is defending him
from an assertion that he was
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an informant, even though it's not
a charge. And so what seems crazy
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is the government has
gotten sucked into this as well,
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they're trying to prove that he is,
even though it's totally irrelevant
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to his guilt or innocence.
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So it's not about guilt or innocence,
it's about his legacy,
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of wanting to establish he wasn't
a tout, a rat, an informant,
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whatever you want to call it.
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Carney: I was as surprised as anyone
when James Whitey Bulger was captured.
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Is the government excited about
having Bulger come back?
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Some people certainly are.
But there are others, I think,
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who have many sleepless nights
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about what James Bulger
is going to testify to.
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I believe the reason that they are
giving so much protection to Bulger
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to transport him from the jail
to the courthouse,
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is they are worried about
someone with a sniper rifle
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taking him out on the way to court
so that he can't testify.
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That's how explosive
his testimony will be.
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Man: This is Whitey's world.
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You go from Squantum,
where he lived with Cathy...
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It's basically six miles, if you drive
it, up to Castle Island over there.
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That's Southie, where
he did most of his crime.
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He murdered people there.
He buried people there.
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And he went to sleep there.
So, that's his world.
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Man 2: I spent much of my childhood
in South Boston,
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and even as a kid, I knew
Whitey Bulger ran the show here.
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But Whitey was very lucky.
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In the 1960s, there was
an Irish gang war.
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And over 60 people were killed.
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But Whitey was in prison.
So he missed all that.
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He would've had
a high, high chance
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of being a victim of that violence.
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When he got out of prison,
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Whitey went to Howie Winter, who was
the leader of the Winter Hill Gang,
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preeminent non-Mafia gang
in this region. And he said to Howie,
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"We got to stop the war in Southie,
too many people are dying,
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we're losing money. "
Howie was very impressed by Whitey.
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And one of the things
that impressed him most
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was that Whitey had done time
in Alcatraz.
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Now, you know, for you and me,
you know, we like to hand in our resume
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and say, "See, I went to Stanford,
I got my MBA at Wharton. "
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But in that milieu, if you're a wise guy,
you say, "Oh, you went to Alcatraz. "
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And Howie said
that Whitey came across
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as a guy that could be a leader.
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So Howie mediates the end
of the war with a rival gang
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in South Boston called the Mullens,
in which the Mullens
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actually were about to prevail.
And the Mullen's guys think,
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you know, they're about to
get the lion's share of everything.
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And Howie threw them for a loop,
when he announced that Jimmy Bulger,
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he's going to front money for them,
they can put money on the street,
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loan shark,
they can do a gambling operation,
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but Whitey's going to be in charge.
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And the Mullen's guys were going,
"What, are you kidding me?
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We were winning. "
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And Tommy King, who was
a member of the Mullens said,
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"We should have killed Whitey
when we had a chance,
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because this is going to
come back to bite us. "
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Man: Southie was great growing up.
Everybody knew everyone.
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Everyone watched out for everybody.
It was great.
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You know, we didn't have a lot, but
we had a lot of fun with what we had.
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My brothers both went to
college, they went to Harvard,
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so I was the only male at home.
I knew how to fight,
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and I was kind of handy, so I started
working different bars, bouncing,
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and I ended up at Triple O's.
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It was a neighborhood bar.
It was kind of a rough bar,
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and that's where I met Jim Bulger
and Steve Flemmi.
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I was 18 at the time.
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Jim was like an older brother,
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he was guiding me through
a minefield and stuff,
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and teaching me a lot as I went.
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When I first started working with them,
they started out small, you know,
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and just, you know, beating people up,
and little by little, take baby steps.
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You know, from gambling,
loan sharking, you know,
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to extortion and stuff, and doing
extortions with Jim Bulger and stuff,
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and I was making a lot of money.
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But the moment
that everything changed for me,
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the moment my life changed, was when
I was involved in the first murder.
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It was a double homicide.
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So then I knew I was in,
and there was no getting out.
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So I decided, "Well, if I'm going to
do this, I'm going to do it right.
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I'm going to be the best at it
that I can. "
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Woman: It was tense in court Tuesday
between James Whitey Bulger
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and the man who was once like a son
to him, his former right-hand man,
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turned cooperating
government witness, Kevin Weeks.
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Woman 2: Weeks was one of
the government's star eyewitnesses.
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As Bulger's mob enforcer, Kevin Weeks
says he buried the bodies,
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moved the guns, and collected
the cash which bookmakers
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and businessmen paid
to stay in business.
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Woman: Weeks calmly and coldly
testified he watched James Bulger
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brutally murder Deborah Hussey, John
Mclntyre, and Arthur "Bucky" Barrett.
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Weeks: Jim Bulger stepped out with
a machine gun, was put in a chair,
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tied with chains.
As he walked down the stairs,
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Jim Bulger shot him
in the back of the head.
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He was strangled,
he was just gagging...
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Jim Bulger asked him
if he wanted one in the head,
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and the kid said, "Yes, please,"
and shot him in the head.
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There Jim had her,
strangled around the neck,
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he's got his legs wrapped around her,
her lips turned blue, face,
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the eyes rolled up in the head
and everything.
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Steve Flemmi says, "She's not dead. "
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He wraps a cord around
her neck and starts twisting.
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Teeth were pulled, and she's
buried in the basement floor.
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Woman: As the defense
began cross-examining
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the former Bulger protégé,
Weeks looked annoyed.
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Carmey: So when you told me
a moment ago that you never lied
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to the investigators, that was a lie.
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I've been lying my whole life,
I'm a criminal.
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Woman: The tension
reached a boiling point,
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when defense attorney Jay Carney
asked Weeks:
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Carney: You were concerned
that you would be viewed as a rat.
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No one calls you a rat?
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Weeks: No one says it to my face.
No one's ever said it to me.
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You know, maybe behind my back.
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Carney: What would you do
if they said it to you?
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"We'll go outside, just the
two of us, you say it to my face
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and see what I do to you. "
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And he looked at me,
he goes, "Physical?"
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And I says, "Yeah, I'll hurt you. "
You know, I mean he asked a question
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I gave him an honest answer.
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Woman: But the best was yet to come
as Carney asked how the killings
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bother Weeks.
The court transcript reads,
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"Because we killed people that
were rats, and I had the biggest rat
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right next to me. "
Bulger then said, "You suck. "
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Weeks fired back,
" you, okay. "
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Bulger gets in the last shot.
" you, too. "
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Man: This is where Whitey used to take
his walks and he would meet with people.
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They stayed on the street
for quite a while,
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and that never should've happened.
It's just... It's crazy, it's crazy.
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Long: I worked organized crime
most of my career.
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So I saw Bulger going up the chain
with the Winter Hill Gang.
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Bulger and Flemmi
moved up in control.
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And in 1980, a young trooper
working for me
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was assigned to go down and check out
this garage down in the North End,
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to see about a possible
stolen car ring.
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When he went by, he noticed a lot of
organized crime figures there.
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He called me, I went down,
observed for myself,
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and that's when we started
this investigation.
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The garage was right up here,
just a little after the truck here.
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We commandeered an apartment
across the street,
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and we monitored it for
about four months, every day.
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And there we saw
James Bulger and Stephen Flemmi.
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Anybody who is anybody in
organized crime in New England,
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came here to this garage.
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People who were paying rent,
protection money,
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people who were in the shit,
let's say.
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They were meeting daily with
the leaders of the New England Mafia.
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The Angiulo crime family,
Patriarca crime family.
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And it was unprecedented to see that.
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It was absolutely shocking
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to see that they were
actually working together.
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That was like striking gold.
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What surprised me, I'd say,
"Where's the Boston police?
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Where's the FBl? Why isn't
anybody else doing this?"
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They're right here.
They're operating so openly.
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It just was shocking.
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And we monitored that,
and documented it,
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and we've got enough probable cause
to go to a judge
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and issue a warrant so that we can
place listening devices inside.
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And we planted the bug,
it worked great.
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Everything was fine.
The next morning,
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one of the first conversations we
picked up was what a great job
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the state police
on the Mass turnpike do.
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So, we knew the gig was up
right then and there.
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Somebody was protecting them.
We knew we were had,
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and we just couldn't figure out how.
Then one night, John Morris of the FBl
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met a Boston detective
at a bachelor party.
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And he was in a drunken state
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and told the Boston detective
that, "I know you guys
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are working with the state on a wire,
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on a bug down on Lancaster Street.
And the bad guys know about it. "
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I couldn't believe it.
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How does anybody know
outside of our group?
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It didn't make sense.
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Man: James Whitey Bulger's
relationship with the FBl
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will be the focus of testimony
this morning.
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Former FBl supervisor John Morris
is expected to take the stand.
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He was head of the FBl's organized
crime squad during the 70s and 80s,
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overseeing former agent,
John Connolly.
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Man 2: Morris claims that he and
John Connolly shielded James Bulger
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from prosecution.
In addition to hearing Morris
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on the stand today,
federal prosecutors plan to discuss
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James Bulger's alleged
700 page FBl informant file.
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Man 3: To understand the Bulger story,
you really have to understand
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how the FBl and top echelon
informant program came into being
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to destroy the Italian Mafia.
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It really begins before the program
even existed when Joe Velachi testified
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before a Congressional committee
in 1963.
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And this testimony was engineered
by Robert Kennedy,
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Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy,
and it was really explosive.
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Velachi came forward
and he described
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the hierarchy of the five families
in New York,
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and he described
the initiation ceremony.
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Man: What is the name
of this organization?
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"Cosa nostra," in Italian.
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Man: "Cosa nostra" in Italian.
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"Our thing"... and "our family,"
in English.
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English: The first time one of these
Mafia guys was talking
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into a television camera,
and it was a big deal,
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and it stole Hoover's thunder.
Because Hoover had,
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for decades now, been denying
that there was a Mafia.
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Now Hoover had a problem.
He needed to make up for lost time.
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And he needed to go out
and get informants
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as dramatic and as explosive
as Joe Velachi.
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We should all be concerned
with one goal:
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the eradication of crime.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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is as close to you
as your nearest telephone.
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It seeks to be your protector in
all matters within its jurisdiction.
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It belongs to you.
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English: The top echelon informant
program also was what gave power
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to guys like John Connolly.
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Because how are you going to
get guys like Velachi?
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Well, you're going to need FBl guys
who walk the walk
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and talk the talk,
who can go out into that underworld
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and sort of make deals
with these guys.
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So the power and influence
of the swaggering agent
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within the hierarchy went way up.
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Man: The general topic of our
discussion today is informant handling.
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And with me today is John Connolly,
a 15-year veteran of the FBl.
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How do you go about developing
individuals for recruitment,
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or targeting as an informant
for the Bureau?
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In the case of
organized crime type people,
433
00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,696
you probably wouldn't want
to target a boss, for instance.
434
00:25:32,864 --> 00:25:38,770
You'd want someone perhaps close
to the level of criminal activity,
435
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:42,706
but not necessarily involved.
436
00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:46,335
Lehr: When John Connolly was a boy,
he lived in Southie,
437
00:25:46,503 --> 00:25:50,464
in the same housing project with the
Bulgers. And he was in awe of Whitey,
438
00:25:50,632 --> 00:25:53,342
who was a teenage thug
with the platinum striking hair,
439
00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:57,221
and the amazing Hollywood good looks.
So John Connolly, given his history
440
00:25:57,472 --> 00:26:00,683
as a son of Southie,
his connection to the Bulger family,
441
00:26:00,850 --> 00:26:04,645
he succeeded in forging
what has since been called
442
00:26:04,813 --> 00:26:07,773
an unholy alliance
with Whitey Bulger.
443
00:26:07,941 --> 00:26:11,235
Remember, these are our most
important assets that we have,
444
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,904
informants.
I mean, they're the name of the game.
445
00:26:14,155 --> 00:26:16,240
You're going to get friendly with them,
and you're going to like them.
446
00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:20,411
But you never can forget
who you work for.
447
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:36,302
Carney: Hello.
448
00:26:36,469 --> 00:26:37,803
Woman: Hi, Mr. Bulger's on the phone.
449
00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:39,346
Carney: All right,
please put him through.
450
00:26:39,514 --> 00:26:40,681
Woman: Sure.
451
00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:43,267
Thanks for calling. There
were a couple of things I wanted
452
00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:45,728
- to ask you about.
- Bulger: Sure.
453
00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:51,817
The first is, that you've told me
since the very first day I met you,
454
00:26:51,943 --> 00:26:53,986
that you've never been an informant.
455
00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:55,070
Bulger: That's correct.
456
00:26:55,196 --> 00:26:58,240
Carney: Does that mean you've never
been an informant in your entire life?
457
00:26:58,408 --> 00:27:02,494
Bulger: Never. As a teenager, I took
many a beating at the police stations,
458
00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:07,124
and I never cracked.
As a bank robber, I was captured,
459
00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:10,461
I pled guilty to free the girlfriend
that I was with,
460
00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,797
and I got a 20 year prison sentence,
first offender.
461
00:27:13,965 --> 00:27:19,303
In prison, I was part of
an escape plot. The plot fell apart,
462
00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:22,431
one of the guys gave my name.
I told them, I don't know
463
00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:27,102
what you're talking about. I spent months
in the hole, naked and the whole thing.
464
00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:29,521
I went through a lot there.
And after four months,
465
00:27:29,689 --> 00:27:32,941
for punishment they sent me
to Alcatraz. And that was it.
466
00:27:33,109 --> 00:27:38,405
I never, never, never cracked.
And the Boston FBl, no way.
467
00:27:38,573 --> 00:27:42,660
I met John Connolly, who's a
salty guy, Irish Catholic like myself.
468
00:27:42,827 --> 00:27:46,872
You know, friendship, "If I ever
hear anything, I'll tip you off,
469
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,958
I'll give you a heads up. "
And then I told him, "All right, John. "
470
00:27:50,126 --> 00:27:53,128
I says, "I'll see you. If you can
let me know, I'd appreciate it. "
471
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:54,922
And that's how it got started.
472
00:27:56,633 --> 00:28:00,052
Carney: This isn't really
a typical criminal trial.
473
00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:04,390
James Bulger knows
that by following the strategy
474
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:07,226
he has directed us to do,
475
00:28:07,435 --> 00:28:10,521
he will be found guilty,
and he's gonna die
476
00:28:10,730 --> 00:28:12,731
behind the walls of a prison.
477
00:28:13,066 --> 00:28:17,027
But for Jim it doesn't matter,
he's at the end of his life.
478
00:28:17,195 --> 00:28:19,488
He doesn't know if he'll live
till the end of the trial,
479
00:28:19,656 --> 00:28:21,657
never mind till
the end of the year.
480
00:28:21,825 --> 00:28:27,705
But for him it's like, it's his last
opportunity to tell people
481
00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:32,251
that he was never an informant,
that our federal government
482
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:37,381
is more corrupt in law enforcement
than anyone ever imagined,
483
00:28:37,549 --> 00:28:41,969
even to this day in this trial,
it's corrupt,
484
00:28:42,137 --> 00:28:44,513
and he wants people to know it.
485
00:28:44,764 --> 00:28:46,932
There's a lot of things
that we need to dispel.
486
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,644
The fact that Jim wasn't an informant.
I mean, the local thinking
487
00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:53,439
is that absolutely he was an informant.
Everybody talks about it,
488
00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:54,940
books are written about it.
489
00:28:55,150 --> 00:28:56,817
Until you actually
go through everything
490
00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:00,112
and look at it to make your own
independent assessment,
491
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,574
you can't have an opinion.
So getting involved in this case,
492
00:29:03,825 --> 00:29:06,577
I had an opportunity that I don't
think anybody in the public does,
493
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:10,205
is I get to see the files
that the government had
494
00:29:10,457 --> 00:29:13,834
to suggest that he was an informant.
I thought that there were some things
495
00:29:14,043 --> 00:29:16,003
about the file
that were so suspicious,
496
00:29:16,129 --> 00:29:19,757
that I wanted to look into it in depth.
And so I sat down with Daryl,
497
00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:22,217
and I asked her to come up with
an independent assessment,
498
00:29:22,385 --> 00:29:24,762
whether or not she thought there
was any legitimacy to the files.
499
00:29:24,929 --> 00:29:27,473
Of course I was eager to start
the project and see what I could find,
500
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,768
but I was also a bit skeptical.
I mean, just looking at the file
501
00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:32,603
when it was handed to me,
I thought, how could that
502
00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:35,939
possibly be fictitious?
It's 700 pages and it looks
503
00:29:36,065 --> 00:29:39,276
very official, so it seems like
it had to be solid.
504
00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:44,072
But slowly, I found a lot of
strange repetition in the file.
505
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,368
What I've done is created tabs
on every page where I found
506
00:29:48,578 --> 00:29:51,872
alternate sources for the information.
And we learned that John Connolly
507
00:29:52,081 --> 00:29:56,001
was pilfering through files.
And Connolly took specific information
508
00:29:56,169 --> 00:29:58,670
from these sources,
and placed it into Mr. Bulger's file.
509
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,672
These alternate sources
comes from wiretaps,
510
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,468
it comes from phone calls,
news articles, public information,
511
00:30:04,677 --> 00:30:07,513
FBl memorandums.
And the majority of the information
512
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,474
comes from other informant files.
A top echelon file
513
00:30:10,683 --> 00:30:13,977
is supposed to be filled
with singular, unique information
514
00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:17,105
that can lead to a prosecution.
And just based on the patterns
515
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:20,150
that I found looking at
other alternate sources,
516
00:30:20,318 --> 00:30:23,904
it's just not consistent with someone
who was providing unique information.
517
00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:28,450
Like this first page of his file,
from May 29, 1981.
518
00:30:29,994 --> 00:30:33,956
The tip reads that "1544 advised
that the Mafia whacked out a guy
519
00:30:34,123 --> 00:30:36,542
several weeks ago...
He's in the trunk of a car. "
520
00:30:36,709 --> 00:30:38,752
It doesn't tell
who whacked out the guy,
521
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,295
it doesn't tell what guy
was whacked out,
522
00:30:40,463 --> 00:30:42,881
it doesn't tell where the car is,
there's no substantive information
523
00:30:43,132 --> 00:30:46,093
in that, and there's no follow-up
in the entire file.
524
00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:50,848
You turn, it's actually the last page,
June 8 of that same year,
525
00:30:51,015 --> 00:30:55,018
the same exact tip shows up.
"1544 advised that source heard
526
00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:57,521
that the outfit people whacked out
a guy several weeks ago
527
00:30:57,689 --> 00:31:01,400
and left the individual in the trunk. "
It's vague, there's no details,
528
00:31:01,651 --> 00:31:03,402
and it shows up twice in his file.
529
00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:11,201
This is not unusual to see reports
in one informant's file
530
00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:14,746
that's similar to reports
in another informant's file.
531
00:31:14,914 --> 00:31:20,002
If a crime occurs, a law-enforcement
agency surveys their informants.
532
00:31:20,169 --> 00:31:23,964
They get multiple reports
from various informants
533
00:31:24,132 --> 00:31:25,507
about the same criminal activity.
534
00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:29,761
That's exactly what Connolly
was doing with Bulger.
535
00:31:29,929 --> 00:31:33,265
The federal government
is so desperate in this trial
536
00:31:33,474 --> 00:31:36,226
to try to convince people
that he's an informant.
537
00:31:36,436 --> 00:31:41,773
Because James Bulger had such
a strong and influential reputation,
538
00:31:41,941 --> 00:31:46,028
his name had value as a commodity
for the Department of Justice.
539
00:31:46,195 --> 00:31:49,698
They needed search warrants
to take down the Mafia.
540
00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:52,993
They needed to put something
down to justify intrusions
541
00:31:53,161 --> 00:31:54,828
into people's civil liberties.
542
00:31:55,038 --> 00:31:58,040
Nobody was going to look and see
if the information was verified.
543
00:31:58,166 --> 00:32:01,084
No one was going to determine
whether it was made up by a street agent.
544
00:32:01,210 --> 00:32:03,253
No one was going to determine
whether it was true or not.
545
00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:06,423
It wasn't enough simply for a magistrate
to sign off on probable cause.
546
00:32:06,591 --> 00:32:09,801
And there is example after example
in this case
547
00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:14,181
of where they took James Bulger's
name and used it as a commodity.
548
00:32:14,974 --> 00:32:19,811
It's a preposterous assertion that he
was not an FBl informant.
549
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:24,608
In fact, he used the FBl,
and they used him.
550
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:29,780
What this is all about,
quite frankly, is he doesn't mind
551
00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:32,783
being called a murderer,
he doesn't mind being called
552
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,495
a criminal, obviously he doesn't mind
being called a drug dealer,
553
00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,705
but he doesn't want to be called
an informant.
554
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:43,502
Because where he came from in Southie,
that's the worst thing you can be.
555
00:32:43,670 --> 00:32:46,004
You can be a crook,
you can be a murderer,
556
00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:50,258
but it's worse to be an informant.
That's the way he's brought up,
557
00:32:50,426 --> 00:32:55,055
in his sick mind,
that's what he believes.
558
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,351
The fact that the file
is 700 pages, quite frankly,
559
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:05,190
that's a large file. Bulger had
this relationship for 15 or 20 years.
560
00:33:08,152 --> 00:33:11,822
When they were saying that
he had a voluminous FBl file,
561
00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:14,616
how long were they claiming
that he was an FBl informant?
562
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,119
Almost 20 years.
563
00:33:17,286 --> 00:33:19,955
Okay.
Well, I have extensive experience
564
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:21,832
with a lot of informant files,
565
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,629
and a top echelon informant file
is never going to be 700 pages.
566
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,382
What should, generally,
the size of the file be?
567
00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:32,551
For 20 years?
568
00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:37,889
Anywhere from 60,000,
569
00:33:37,974 --> 00:33:43,145
55,000, up to,
you know, 300,000.
570
00:33:44,230 --> 00:33:46,565
The problem with the top echelon
informant program,
571
00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:49,067
it's not unique to the Bulger case,
572
00:33:49,235 --> 00:33:51,319
and a lot of people are dying
because of it.
573
00:33:51,446 --> 00:33:55,782
So I file a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit against the government,
574
00:33:55,992 --> 00:33:57,993
and I won massive files,
575
00:33:58,202 --> 00:34:01,747
55,000 pages of files just on
one top echelon informant,
576
00:34:01,914 --> 00:34:05,959
Gregory Scarpa, a high level
informant for the FBl in New York.
577
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:09,629
His main role was to
bring down the Colombo crime family.
578
00:34:09,797 --> 00:34:12,591
But at the same time,
he was lying and killing off
579
00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:16,053
his rivals and committing murders,
a lot of murders.
580
00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:18,430
In trial, they said
more than 50 people.
581
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:22,768
I don't know if you've ever seen
a real informant file or not.
582
00:34:22,977 --> 00:34:25,520
- I haven't. That looks heavy.
- Because I don't think that you have.
583
00:34:25,646 --> 00:34:28,190
See, you didn't have this
on yours, correct?
584
00:34:28,357 --> 00:34:32,277
These are important, these are
showing who these went to
585
00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:33,820
and who authorized these.
586
00:34:33,946 --> 00:34:35,614
That's an unbelievable
amount of signatures.
587
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:36,698
Exactly.
588
00:34:36,824 --> 00:34:38,950
That means everybody here
saw this or endorsed it.
589
00:34:39,118 --> 00:34:43,246
Yeah, exactly.
And, but look how high it went up.
590
00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:46,333
Kelly, Deloach, that's up there,
that's up there with,
591
00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:48,335
with Hoover.
592
00:34:48,461 --> 00:34:52,089
And then it should go into
the information that he provided.
593
00:34:52,256 --> 00:34:57,219
He's given information, and then
the FBl does their own summary.
594
00:34:57,386 --> 00:35:00,055
Here. "This informant has not
furnished any information
595
00:35:00,139 --> 00:35:02,891
known to be false. "
Do you have any of that on yours?
596
00:35:03,017 --> 00:35:04,309
We don't have things like that.
597
00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:08,688
And this is a total of 1147 pages.
598
00:35:08,856 --> 00:35:11,149
So, and that's just the first set.
599
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,402
Now, I have an additional 55 coming,
600
00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:16,238
55,000 coming.
601
00:35:17,907 --> 00:35:21,743
Remember the day when Hank and I
were with you, and showed you
602
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:25,997
the so-called informant file
that John Connolly had been keeping?
603
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,082
Yeah.
604
00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:29,417
Remember your reaction
to seeing that?
605
00:35:29,585 --> 00:35:33,672
I was shocked. I was angry.
I couldn't believe it was,
606
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,634
I consider it the worst betrayal that ever,
ever happened to me in my life.
607
00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:41,346
I couldn't believe that anyone
even could dream of such a thing.
608
00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:43,181
I never knew it existed.
609
00:35:43,349 --> 00:35:46,476
Did you recognize the information
that was contained in it
610
00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:49,146
as anything that you would
ever talk to John Connolly about?
611
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:52,399
No. I asked the questions,
I got the answers.
612
00:35:52,567 --> 00:35:55,694
I was the guy who did the directing,
they didn't direct me.
613
00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:58,029
What are some of the things
they would give you
614
00:35:58,197 --> 00:35:59,531
in terms of tips?
615
00:35:59,699 --> 00:36:03,493
The thing that we needed most
of, number one, was wiretaps.
616
00:36:03,703 --> 00:36:06,705
And then, like, photo surveillance,
search warrants
617
00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:09,082
when they were coming,
indictments that were coming,
618
00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:11,918
so guys could get a chance
to make a run for it.
619
00:36:12,044 --> 00:36:15,172
Well, if you weren't providing
information to these people,
620
00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:18,508
why were they willing to give you
all this information?
621
00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:22,345
For money, for money.
Money's the common denominator.
622
00:36:22,597 --> 00:36:24,973
It's a way of doing business.
It happens all the time,
623
00:36:25,141 --> 00:36:26,808
it'll never stop.
624
00:36:26,976 --> 00:36:29,853
I remember you told me once
that Christmas
625
00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:32,355
- is for kids and cops.
- Correct.
626
00:36:32,565 --> 00:36:36,902
How many people would you be
paying off on a holiday period?
627
00:36:37,069 --> 00:36:40,238
Everybody I knew I took care of
at Christmas time.
628
00:36:40,448 --> 00:36:44,743
Put money in envelopes for all of
the different police. I had contacts
629
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:48,872
on the state police,
the Boston police, the ATF,
630
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,250
also in the FBl. There was more people
than John Connolly, but I'm not going
631
00:36:52,418 --> 00:36:56,046
to say who they were. I would
never say anybody's name, you know.
632
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:57,797
But I took care of everybody.
633
00:36:57,965 --> 00:36:59,549
And was this in cash?
634
00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:03,428
Always cash.
I never handed anyone money,
635
00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:04,930
I handed them an envelope,
636
00:37:05,097 --> 00:37:08,308
makes it a little bit easier for them
to accept it, you know?
637
00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:12,145
Or I put the money maybe in a box,
if it was that much money.
638
00:37:12,313 --> 00:37:17,400
What was the most amount of money
you ever paid an FBl person, FBl agent?
639
00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:20,070
- At one time?
- Yeah.
640
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:23,448
I don't know,
maybe 25,000, 50,000.
641
00:37:25,034 --> 00:37:28,411
Everybody can be corrupted.
People who are of the opinion
642
00:37:28,579 --> 00:37:31,831
that the FBl is above reproach...
643
00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:34,334
Well, they're just regular people.
644
00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:37,254
They put their pants on in the morning
just like everybody else.
645
00:37:37,463 --> 00:37:38,755
They are regular people,
646
00:37:38,881 --> 00:37:42,342
except they have a badge that says,
you know, "Special Agent. "
647
00:37:42,551 --> 00:37:45,971
But there's nothing special
about them, they are regular people.
648
00:37:46,138 --> 00:37:49,724
If you find their weakness, or their needs,
or if they have a problem
649
00:37:49,892 --> 00:37:53,186
and you can solve it for them,
you can corrupt them.
650
00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:56,314
Maybe they like money, maybe
they like wine, maybe they like jewelry,
651
00:37:56,482 --> 00:37:58,358
you know, trips, whatever.
652
00:37:58,484 --> 00:38:01,069
There's always a way
to corrupt somebody.
653
00:38:01,237 --> 00:38:05,240
Man: During a rapid-fire and sometimes
intense cross-examination,
654
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:07,951
disgraced former FBl supervisor
John Morris
655
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,829
admitted taking thousands
in cash from Bulger.
656
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:14,916
Man 2: Mr. Morris, you were Mr. Bulger's
paid FBl informant, weren't you?
657
00:38:15,084 --> 00:38:17,377
Morris: That's not correct.
He did give me money,
658
00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:19,170
but I was not his paid informant.
659
00:38:19,338 --> 00:38:20,547
- Man 2: Gave you money?
- Morris: Yes.
660
00:38:20,673 --> 00:38:21,798
- Man 2: Gave you gifts?
- Morris: Yes.
661
00:38:21,966 --> 00:38:23,883
Man 2: You got a case of wine,
didn't you, from Mr. Connolly
662
00:38:24,051 --> 00:38:25,844
- in the basement of the federal office?
- Morris: That's correct.
663
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:28,555
- Man 2: Did you throw it away?
- Morris: No, I kept it.
664
00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:35,353
You know, seeing a day
like today where, it's not clear,
665
00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:39,607
you see, you see thoroughly,
despicably corrupt FBl agents
666
00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:45,155
like John Morris, a supervisor.
You know, with just a moral...
667
00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:48,533
I mean, he was a moral coward.
668
00:38:48,701 --> 00:38:49,617
Boeri: And you see him,
669
00:38:49,785 --> 00:38:53,913
and you see Connolly taking advantage
of him in all his weakness,
670
00:38:54,081 --> 00:38:56,833
to bring him into the group.
671
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,960
You see that, and you see
what was allowed.
672
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:02,422
And so, the real story here,
is that our government
673
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:07,218
enabled killers to run free
in this city, you know?
674
00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:09,512
Bulger used to wake up
in South Boston,
675
00:39:09,638 --> 00:39:11,514
and from South Boston
you can look across,
676
00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:14,851
and he would say, "I own that town. "
And he really did.
677
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,396
And he owned it because,
he was allowed to turn
678
00:39:18,564 --> 00:39:23,026
the Federal Bureau of Investigation into
the Bulger Bureau of Investigation.
679
00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:27,364
He put his tentacles into the Bureau
and he turned it into something
680
00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:30,325
that worked for him.
And it was because they were all
681
00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:35,955
crazed about getting the Mafia,
that they enabled the Irish Godfather
682
00:39:36,082 --> 00:39:37,582
to run the show here.
683
00:39:37,750 --> 00:39:40,877
And he was far more dangerous
than the Italians.
684
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:48,468
So what we need to do is get inside
a little bit and talk about
685
00:39:48,594 --> 00:39:51,930
how the FBl works,
what the roles of certain people were
686
00:39:52,098 --> 00:39:56,142
like Mr. Connolly and Mr. Morris.
And the more we can
687
00:39:56,310 --> 00:39:59,145
keep you on the stand,
from my perspective the better,
688
00:39:59,313 --> 00:40:02,690
because hopefully, it will be able to
really illustrate the effort you made,
689
00:40:02,858 --> 00:40:05,318
so they see the good side
of law enforcement.
690
00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:08,530
You recognized it was a problem, you
tried to do something to save lives,
691
00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:11,157
and because they were
pursuing whatever agenda they were,
692
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:13,368
- they shut you down.
- Can I be candid with you?
693
00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:15,412
I think the whole thing was a con.
694
00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:18,915
I think at some point
they get in over their heads,
695
00:40:19,041 --> 00:40:24,963
and their success was wrapped
around Bulger, to the point where he
696
00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:26,423
had to be validated,
697
00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:31,344
he had to be made
into this informant
698
00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:33,680
that gave them all this information.
699
00:40:33,848 --> 00:40:34,848
Brennan: That's the myth.
700
00:40:34,974 --> 00:40:36,391
That's the myth.
701
00:40:37,059 --> 00:40:40,770
Fitzpatrick: I had a fascinating career.
I worked organized crime,
702
00:40:40,938 --> 00:40:44,858
I worked fugitives.
And in Mississippi, I had to work
703
00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:46,985
the Ku Klux Klan, bombings.
704
00:40:47,153 --> 00:40:50,738
And we ended
the bombings in Mississippi.
705
00:40:50,906 --> 00:40:53,408
Then I was
transferred back to Memphis.
706
00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:57,287
Martin Luther King came to Memphis
and I was told
707
00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:59,330
that King had just been shot.
708
00:41:00,749 --> 00:41:03,376
We found the gun
and through the fingerprints
709
00:41:03,502 --> 00:41:07,672
we identified James Earl Ray,
and we arrested him in London.
710
00:41:07,882 --> 00:41:12,427
In Miami, we developed a case
called ABSCAM.
711
00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:17,140
ABSCAM turned out to be one of the
largest white-collar crime cases ever.
712
00:41:17,349 --> 00:41:21,019
And we arrested senators,
a sitting senator.
713
00:41:21,228 --> 00:41:26,608
So when I went back to headquarters,
and the Boston problem was going on,
714
00:41:26,775 --> 00:41:29,486
I was told they needed somebody
with this background
715
00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:35,074
to be sent to Boston. And my mission
was to find out what is going on
716
00:41:35,242 --> 00:41:38,786
between the Mass State Police,
the Boston Police,
717
00:41:38,954 --> 00:41:40,580
the local police, and the FBl,
718
00:41:40,748 --> 00:41:42,832
and how come they're not
getting along together.
719
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,667
They had territorial issues.
720
00:41:44,919 --> 00:41:49,464
The state police was blaming the FBl
for cavorting with criminals,
721
00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:55,595
because they had seen Connolly and
Morris with Bulger and Flemmi.
722
00:41:56,639 --> 00:42:01,226
So they formed the opinion that the
agents were doing something bad.
723
00:42:01,393 --> 00:42:03,978
Well, as it turned out, they were.
724
00:42:04,146 --> 00:42:07,148
But they didn't know it then,
and I didn't know it then.
725
00:42:07,316 --> 00:42:11,027
So I go out and interview Bulger
726
00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:15,365
and assess him, a suitability,
if you will.
727
00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:20,578
I arrive at Bulger's place,
and met at the door by Bulger.
728
00:42:20,746 --> 00:42:21,955
He's got a baseball cap on,
729
00:42:22,122 --> 00:42:24,791
he's got sunglasses,
he's got a muscle shirt.
730
00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:28,294
I hold out my paw, my hand,
and he doesn't take it.
731
00:42:28,462 --> 00:42:33,841
Okay, you know. So I look at my
empty hand and I follow him in.
732
00:42:34,009 --> 00:42:39,931
The place is dark. And we walk
in the back. I say, "Look, Bulger,
733
00:42:40,182 --> 00:42:43,184
I'm here to find out what
you're doing for us.
734
00:42:43,352 --> 00:42:45,144
What are you doing for us?"
735
00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:51,484
And he gets angry. And about
that time, Connolly pops out.
736
00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:54,445
And remember this was supposed to be
mano a mano, one-on-one.
737
00:42:54,822 --> 00:43:00,368
And I get very angry. And I look over
and he says, "Hi, Fitzy, how you doing?"
738
00:43:00,744 --> 00:43:05,832
And I'm saying to myself, "Oh,"
you know, "this does not look good. "
739
00:43:05,958 --> 00:43:09,294
But then we have
the conversation about him.
740
00:43:09,461 --> 00:43:11,421
I finally get the conversation back.
741
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:14,674
And what he tells me is that
he's not an informant,
742
00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:20,847
that he has his own informants, and that
he pays them, they don't pay him,
743
00:43:21,098 --> 00:43:25,226
and that he's the head of a gang,
and that he runs the gang,
744
00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:29,314
that he's not going to testify.
Now all those elements
745
00:43:29,481 --> 00:43:33,776
are elements to me that I'm going to
close this guy as an informant.
746
00:43:33,944 --> 00:43:36,738
If you're an informant for the FBl
and you're the head of the gang,
747
00:43:36,905 --> 00:43:39,991
then the FBl is validating the gang.
748
00:43:40,242 --> 00:43:43,911
You're actually part of the gang
and the management process.
749
00:43:44,079 --> 00:43:46,748
So to me, he's a big problem.
750
00:43:46,915 --> 00:43:50,084
Close him, get rid of him.
And that's what I go back
751
00:43:50,252 --> 00:43:51,669
and tell my boss.
752
00:43:51,837 --> 00:43:54,505
From that point on,
I get resistance.
753
00:43:54,673 --> 00:43:57,216
I'm more or less told, "You shut up.
754
00:43:57,384 --> 00:43:58,843
You're not allowed
to talk about this. "
755
00:44:02,473 --> 00:44:04,265
Murphy: I was a very young reporter,
756
00:44:04,350 --> 00:44:09,145
but I had covered this huge Mafia trial
in Boston, it was the biggest ever.
757
00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:13,524
It was, um... The FBl had planted a bug
in the north end headquarters
758
00:44:13,692 --> 00:44:15,234
of a guy named Jerry Angiulo.
759
00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:17,654
He was the underboss
of the Mafia,
760
00:44:17,821 --> 00:44:20,698
and ran everything in Boston.
And he and his brothers,
761
00:44:20,866 --> 00:44:23,951
the whole hierarchy went on trial,
it was an eight month trial.
762
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:29,415
And there was all this evidence
of murders, and corruption,
763
00:44:29,583 --> 00:44:33,586
and they had tapes of Jerry Angiulo
bragging about murders.
764
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:37,131
But they also had him talking about,
"I have a couple of guys
765
00:44:37,299 --> 00:44:39,926
that will do anything for us
named Whitey and Stevie,
766
00:44:40,052 --> 00:44:42,637
they'll kill anyone we ask them to. "
767
00:44:42,805 --> 00:44:45,390
And so at the end of that trial,
it was a huge victory
768
00:44:45,557 --> 00:44:48,184
for the FBl in Boston.
They had just wiped out
769
00:44:48,352 --> 00:44:50,978
the New England family,
decimated them.
770
00:44:51,146 --> 00:44:54,982
Yesterday, a federal grand jury
sitting at Boston
771
00:44:55,150 --> 00:44:59,195
returned a 20 count indictment
charging seven individuals,
772
00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:01,322
including Gennaro Angiulo.
773
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:04,409
Murphy: The Boston FBl,
they were heroes, and John Connolly
774
00:45:04,576 --> 00:45:08,413
was at the heart of that, he was
the guy with the most informants
775
00:45:08,539 --> 00:45:11,249
the most top echelon informants.
776
00:45:11,834 --> 00:45:14,794
So as the Mafia is being decimated,
777
00:45:14,962 --> 00:45:18,506
stepping into the vacuum
are Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi.
778
00:45:18,757 --> 00:45:22,427
And I'm asking the New England
strike force leader, Jerry O'Sullivan,
779
00:45:22,636 --> 00:45:25,513
why aren't you
going after Whitey and Stevie?
780
00:45:25,764 --> 00:45:29,142
You've already done the Mafia
repeatedly, what about these guys?
781
00:45:29,309 --> 00:45:32,228
And the answer is, "Oh, well,
they're not the threat
782
00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:36,482
that the Mafia is, the Mafia
is an international organization,
783
00:45:36,650 --> 00:45:37,775
Whitey's this local hoodlum.
784
00:45:37,943 --> 00:45:40,027
We're the New England
Organized Crime Strike Force,
785
00:45:40,195 --> 00:45:41,821
we go after the big guys. "
786
00:45:42,072 --> 00:45:44,991
Well, Whitey was
becoming the big fish.
787
00:45:51,832 --> 00:45:57,003
Carney: Jim Bulger wants to explain
to the jury why for 25 years
788
00:45:57,129 --> 00:46:02,258
he could be on top of the organized
crime pyramid in Boston,
789
00:46:02,426 --> 00:46:05,011
and never once be charged
with a crime.
790
00:46:05,179 --> 00:46:10,808
The chief of the Organized Crime
Strike Force, Jeremiah O'Sullivan,
791
00:46:10,976 --> 00:46:16,397
promised him that he would not be
prosecuted for any federal crime,
792
00:46:16,565 --> 00:46:22,111
if in turn, he did something
that the government wanted.
793
00:46:23,155 --> 00:46:25,782
And that something
was not being an informant,
794
00:46:25,949 --> 00:46:27,617
it was something else.
795
00:46:27,743 --> 00:46:30,787
We've never revealed that information,
796
00:46:30,954 --> 00:46:34,457
but Jim will at trial,
if Jim takes the stand.
797
00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:39,003
Bulger: I had met secretly
with a high official
798
00:46:39,213 --> 00:46:42,965
in the federal strike force,
Jerry O'Sullivan, United States Attorney.
799
00:46:43,133 --> 00:46:45,384
He was concerned that someone
was going to kill him.
800
00:46:45,552 --> 00:46:48,012
He says that he's in trouble,
and he needs help.
801
00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:50,640
I felt bad for him, so I told him,
802
00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:53,893
I says, "Look, I'll take care of this
for you, but I'm no spy.
803
00:46:54,102 --> 00:46:56,729
We don't meet, I'll take care of it
my own way.
804
00:46:56,897 --> 00:46:58,523
If you can accept that,
it'll be done. "
805
00:46:58,690 --> 00:47:01,317
Carney: What was O'Sullivan's
promise to you?
806
00:47:01,485 --> 00:47:04,195
His promise to me was this.
He says, "Listen, Whitey,"
807
00:47:04,321 --> 00:47:07,865
he says, "I feel better, I'm under
your umbrella of protection,
808
00:47:08,033 --> 00:47:12,245
you're under mine," and he says,
"Any federal crimes or anything like that,
809
00:47:12,412 --> 00:47:15,206
don't worry about it. " He says,
"I'll always be in your corner
810
00:47:15,374 --> 00:47:18,835
from this point on.
I'll protect you, you protect me. "
811
00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:20,545
And that was the way it went.
812
00:47:22,422 --> 00:47:28,302
Bulger claims that he had
saved Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan
813
00:47:29,304 --> 00:47:35,226
from imminent danger,
presumably from Mafia retaliation
814
00:47:35,394 --> 00:47:40,231
for Jeremiah O'Sullivan's pursuit
of the Mafia and bringing it down,
815
00:47:40,399 --> 00:47:44,777
and that his deal with Jeremiah
T. O'Sullivan was a personal one,
816
00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:48,698
and he was going to
protect O'Sullivan in return
817
00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:54,161
for being granted immunity
for crimes past and future.
818
00:47:55,414 --> 00:47:58,958
John Connolly said that O'Sullivan
and Bulger pledged allegiance
819
00:47:59,084 --> 00:48:03,170
to each other.
That's a pretty significant event,
820
00:48:03,338 --> 00:48:06,799
an event by the way that was never
mentioned or even alluded to
821
00:48:06,967 --> 00:48:09,760
in this trial. The government
didn't want it to be,
822
00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:13,848
because then you would have
this very ironic situation
823
00:48:14,016 --> 00:48:17,602
of the US Attorney's Office in Boston,
the very office
824
00:48:17,769 --> 00:48:20,855
that is currently prosecuting
Whitey Bulger, had some kind of
825
00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:23,065
corrupt relationship with Whitey Bulger,
826
00:48:23,233 --> 00:48:25,484
that they're not being
totally forthcoming about.
827
00:48:26,778 --> 00:48:32,241
The notion that a federal prosecutor
could tell an organized crime figure
828
00:48:32,409 --> 00:48:34,952
that he could kill at will,
men and women,
829
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,998
rich and poor,
Boston, Florida, Oklahoma,
830
00:48:39,082 --> 00:48:44,587
based on a personal promise
to guarantee his safety, is so absurd,
831
00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:50,051
so ludicrous, we've run out
of words like "ludicrous"
832
00:48:50,218 --> 00:48:51,844
and synonyms to describe it.
833
00:48:55,182 --> 00:48:58,267
Woman: Today they call to the stand
former number two
834
00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:02,563
in the FBl's Boston office,
Agent Bob Fitzpatrick.
835
00:49:02,731 --> 00:49:05,149
Fitzpatrick: Kind of upset over the fact
that this whole case
836
00:49:05,317 --> 00:49:09,320
is predicated on a bunch of people
I tried to put in jail,
837
00:49:09,488 --> 00:49:13,574
and the true story
is that the criminal justice system
838
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:17,536
has basically been co-opted
by Bulger, by Flemmi.
839
00:49:17,704 --> 00:49:21,248
Now certain people
are culpable in the FBl,
840
00:49:21,416 --> 00:49:25,127
but certain people are culpable
in the Department of Justice.
841
00:49:25,212 --> 00:49:28,214
So I've got to go there
and present the truth.
842
00:49:28,382 --> 00:49:31,175
Woman: Former FBl agent
Robert Fitzpatrick
843
00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:35,304
started at the Boston office in 1981,
and said the atmosphere was tense.
844
00:49:35,472 --> 00:49:38,015
As Assistant Special Agent
In Charge, Fitzpatrick
845
00:49:38,183 --> 00:49:41,102
evaluated James Bulger's role
as an informant.
846
00:49:41,269 --> 00:49:45,690
Fitzpatrick said Bulger surprised him
by saying he was not an FBl informant,
847
00:49:45,857 --> 00:49:49,860
that he was never paid anything
by the FBl to provide information.
848
00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:52,613
Fitzpatrick recommended
closing Bulger as an informant,
849
00:49:52,864 --> 00:49:54,490
but headquarters
thought Bulger was too valuable
850
00:49:54,658 --> 00:49:58,369
in its quest to bring down the Mafia.
After several hours on the stand,
851
00:49:58,537 --> 00:50:01,580
prosecutors began a tough
cross-examination of Fitzpatrick.
852
00:50:01,707 --> 00:50:02,832
First question?
853
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,334
Kelly: You're a man who likes to
make up stories, aren't you?
854
00:50:05,377 --> 00:50:06,252
Fitzpatrick: No.
855
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:09,005
Kelly: Didn't you gratuitously claim
credit for arresting the mob boss
856
00:50:09,172 --> 00:50:11,132
- Jerry Angiulo?
- Fitzpatrick: I did arrest him.
857
00:50:11,299 --> 00:50:13,676
Kelly: Haven't you in fact pretended
that you were the one
858
00:50:13,844 --> 00:50:16,178
who found the rifle that killed
Martin Luther King?
859
00:50:16,346 --> 00:50:18,764
Fitzpatrick: I did find the rifle,
when I was at the scene.
860
00:50:18,932 --> 00:50:21,058
Woman: At one point,
Assistant US Attorney Brian Kelly said,
861
00:50:21,226 --> 00:50:22,852
"Are you on medication?"
862
00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:25,938
Fitzpatrick said,
"Yes. " Kelly said sarcastically,
863
00:50:26,106 --> 00:50:27,314
"Does it affect your memory?"
864
00:50:27,482 --> 00:50:29,775
"Not that I recall,"
replied Fitzpatrick,
865
00:50:29,985 --> 00:50:32,278
as several people in court laughed.
866
00:50:33,488 --> 00:50:35,197
Woman: How do you think you were
treated on the stand?
867
00:50:35,365 --> 00:50:36,240
Not good.
868
00:50:36,450 --> 00:50:37,908
What do you mean?
869
00:50:38,076 --> 00:50:40,661
I thought the guy was very angry,
and I don't know why.
870
00:50:40,829 --> 00:50:43,873
You know, it should've been
a lot more professional,
871
00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:47,626
and I didn't feel that professionalism.
872
00:50:47,711 --> 00:50:50,838
And plus, as a former law enforcement
officer working with these guys,
873
00:50:51,006 --> 00:50:52,381
I should have had
a little more respect.
874
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:56,594
You know, I'm actually disgusted
in some sense, to be honest with you.
875
00:50:56,803 --> 00:50:59,180
To hear Fitzpatrick
get grilled like that,
876
00:50:59,347 --> 00:51:02,183
and not all the other agents?
I think it's garbage.
877
00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:04,727
That's the first time that
the prosecution has cross-examined
878
00:51:04,895 --> 00:51:06,395
anybody in that manner.
879
00:51:06,563 --> 00:51:08,939
Other than that, they been up there
kissing everybody's ass.
880
00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:12,610
All the dirty FBl agents,
all ex-mobsters.
881
00:51:12,778 --> 00:51:15,905
Look at Morris, they didn't treat
Morris like Fitzpatrick.
882
00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:17,782
These are the guys
they gave deals to.
883
00:51:17,949 --> 00:51:21,160
Fitzpatrick tried to go out of his way
and do the right thing,
884
00:51:21,328 --> 00:51:24,914
but he's still fighting for a pension.
Morris got a pension.
885
00:51:25,957 --> 00:51:29,210
Kelly: With respect to my
cross-examination of Fitzpatrick,
886
00:51:29,419 --> 00:51:32,004
I do think it was fair.
I think when people
887
00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:35,132
come into federal court
and tell ridiculous stories,
888
00:51:35,258 --> 00:51:39,470
they can expect to be confronted
aggressively with cross-examination.
889
00:51:39,554 --> 00:51:41,097
That's the purpose
of cross-examination,
890
00:51:41,264 --> 00:51:43,557
you try to expose
what isn't accurate.
891
00:51:43,725 --> 00:51:45,434
Now Fitzpatrick was in fact
892
00:51:45,602 --> 00:51:49,063
in the chain of command
at exactly the same time
893
00:51:49,231 --> 00:51:53,234
all this crime and buffoonery
was occurring. And yet years later,
894
00:51:53,401 --> 00:51:56,862
he wanted to distance himself
from it and pretend
895
00:51:56,988 --> 00:51:58,489
he was trying to stop it.
896
00:52:00,033 --> 00:52:03,119
English: Bob Fitzpatrick was one of
the first people to say
897
00:52:03,328 --> 00:52:06,664
there's something rotten here,
and to try to call attention to it.
898
00:52:06,832 --> 00:52:10,751
He's drummed out of the FBl,
now here he is at this trial,
899
00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:14,880
and they really seek to destroy him,
they seek to humiliate him,
900
00:52:15,048 --> 00:52:20,261
and it was very personal, because
when he comes in to trial to testify,
901
00:52:20,428 --> 00:52:23,389
he is a rebuke to the entire system
902
00:52:23,557 --> 00:52:26,809
and to everyone who stood back
903
00:52:26,977 --> 00:52:31,522
for 20 years that Bulger was in
power and allowed it to happen.
904
00:52:31,690 --> 00:52:35,109
And a lot of people were
complicit in that.
905
00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:41,365
Brennan: It was a little bit tormenting
to watch Fitzpatrick get beat up.
906
00:52:41,533 --> 00:52:43,701
It shows you that you're
either with the government,
907
00:52:43,869 --> 00:52:47,621
and they'll accept, and guide,
and protect you
908
00:52:47,789 --> 00:52:49,999
in any way they can, or you're
against the government,
909
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:51,709
and they'll try to destroy you.
910
00:52:53,879 --> 00:52:56,505
We know that there was
a relationship between
911
00:52:56,673 --> 00:52:59,925
the Department of Justice and
the success of James Bulger,
912
00:53:00,093 --> 00:53:02,344
and nobody wants to tell that story.
913
00:53:02,512 --> 00:53:05,848
They protected him for
their own reasons for decades,
914
00:53:06,057 --> 00:53:07,766
and they're still lying about it.
915
00:53:07,934 --> 00:53:12,021
At this trial, the United States
Attorney's Office has an exhibit.
916
00:53:12,147 --> 00:53:13,564
It's a very important exhibit.
917
00:53:13,732 --> 00:53:16,233
It is a memorandum
from the Special Agent In Charge
918
00:53:16,401 --> 00:53:19,028
in the 1980s by the name
of Lawrence Sarhatt.
919
00:53:19,196 --> 00:53:22,823
In this memorandum, Sarhatt says
that he had a conversation
920
00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:27,119
with James Bulger when they met
at a hotel. And the government pretends
921
00:53:27,287 --> 00:53:31,415
that this memorandum somehow shows
James Bulger is an informant.
922
00:53:31,583 --> 00:53:34,251
So, during the trial
we learn information
923
00:53:34,502 --> 00:53:37,213
that there's a secret safe
in the Boston SAC,
924
00:53:37,422 --> 00:53:40,799
that's Special Agent in Charge's office
in the C3 unit of the FBl,
925
00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:45,095
the criminal division, and in that safe,
supposedly documents will go into
926
00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:46,555
and never come out again.
927
00:53:46,723 --> 00:53:49,183
We also learned
that there was a secretary
928
00:53:49,309 --> 00:53:53,229
who had worked for decades
in the Boston FBl.
929
00:53:53,438 --> 00:53:56,607
She's 82 years old, and still working
for the Boston FBl.
930
00:53:56,816 --> 00:54:00,694
So, she is the person who knows
whether or not a secret safe exists.
931
00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:15,251
Brennan: When we called
this secretary as a witness,
932
00:54:15,418 --> 00:54:18,420
mysteriously new documents appeared.
933
00:54:18,588 --> 00:54:20,339
While they told the jury
and the public
934
00:54:20,507 --> 00:54:23,717
- this is the truth at this trial...
- Man: At this trial.
935
00:54:23,802 --> 00:54:25,636
what we learned
when we called the secretary
936
00:54:25,762 --> 00:54:27,805
is there were other documents
that existed.
937
00:54:27,931 --> 00:54:31,600
The same exact memo
that the government introduced
938
00:54:31,768 --> 00:54:36,272
at this trial from the same person,
exact copy of it,
939
00:54:36,439 --> 00:54:39,400
we learned that the memo
was not complete,
940
00:54:39,567 --> 00:54:41,443
because there's
an observation section.
941
00:54:42,821 --> 00:54:45,281
Mr. Sarhatt says, "I am not certain
that I am convinced
942
00:54:45,448 --> 00:54:48,242
the informant is telling
the full story of his involvement.
943
00:54:48,410 --> 00:54:50,369
Consideration should be given
to closing him
944
00:54:50,453 --> 00:54:52,121
and making him a target. "
945
00:54:54,082 --> 00:54:55,499
So what do they do
with this information?
946
00:54:55,667 --> 00:55:00,212
Well, the government at this trial,
leaves that part out until we expose it.
947
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:03,841
What else did they do with
the information back in 1980?
948
00:55:04,009 --> 00:55:07,553
We'd learn from the secretary exactly
what they did with that information.
949
00:55:07,762 --> 00:55:10,723
The actual memorandum
that was given to her,
950
00:55:10,890 --> 00:55:13,642
she put in an envelope
by direction of Mr. Sarhatt,
951
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:18,689
and put in the safe.
And it says, "Strictly Eyes-Only. "
952
00:55:18,857 --> 00:55:21,984
Nobody other than the Special Agent
in Charge should see it.
953
00:55:22,152 --> 00:55:24,611
And anytime a new Special Agent
In Charge would come in
954
00:55:24,779 --> 00:55:28,157
and take the place of an old one
who was resigning or moving on,
955
00:55:28,325 --> 00:55:30,367
she would tell them
about this document in the safe,
956
00:55:30,535 --> 00:55:32,953
and it stayed in that safe
for generations
957
00:55:33,121 --> 00:55:36,206
of Special Agents in Charge
when they took each other's spot.
958
00:55:37,542 --> 00:55:40,210
And one Special Agent In Charge
said, "Get rid of this,
959
00:55:40,378 --> 00:55:42,129
or we'll all get fired. "
960
00:55:44,424 --> 00:55:46,216
What could be so terrible
about this document
961
00:55:46,384 --> 00:55:49,470
that they would lose their job?
That James Bulger was an informant?
962
00:55:49,637 --> 00:55:51,638
Would that be so terrible
everybody would get fired?
963
00:55:51,806 --> 00:55:54,141
Or that they knew
he wasn't an informant,
964
00:55:54,309 --> 00:55:55,934
they knew that he
should've been targeted,
965
00:55:56,102 --> 00:55:58,187
and he was being protected.
966
00:56:03,068 --> 00:56:07,279
Kelly: The defense complaining
about the Sarhatt memo
967
00:56:07,447 --> 00:56:11,533
is another desperate tactic by them,
which is another version of,
968
00:56:11,701 --> 00:56:12,701
"Let's pretend,"
969
00:56:12,869 --> 00:56:15,913
because they are pretending
they didn't have these documents,
970
00:56:16,122 --> 00:56:20,292
which they did. There's nothing sinister
about it, it was disclosed.
971
00:56:20,502 --> 00:56:24,171
They had it. And it didn't...
it didn't prove anything,
972
00:56:24,339 --> 00:56:27,132
other than the fact that
there was a head of the FBl
973
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:30,386
who was concerned about
keeping Bulger open as an informant.
974
00:56:30,553 --> 00:56:33,931
If anything, the Sarhatt memo
proves Bulger was an informant.
975
00:56:34,099 --> 00:56:37,351
He sat with the head of
the Boston FBl for four hours
976
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:41,188
and gave them all sorts of information,
most of which was useless,
977
00:56:41,314 --> 00:56:43,899
but in fact, he was
reporting it to the FBl,
978
00:56:44,067 --> 00:56:46,318
and that makes him an informant.
979
00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:54,201
Woman: The latest twist in the trial
of James Whitey Bulger.
980
00:56:54,369 --> 00:56:57,454
Man: On Tuesday, Stephen Rakes was
dropped from the witness list.
981
00:56:57,622 --> 00:57:00,833
Woman 2: Rakes had been set to testify,
but prosecutors told him he was
982
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,876
no longer needed to
take the stand.
983
00:57:03,044 --> 00:57:05,796
Thirty years of torment, and
now it's coming to an end.
984
00:57:09,634 --> 00:57:13,762
Hello. No, I haven't been
able to get...
985
00:57:13,930 --> 00:57:16,348
I'm going by his house later
because I haven't been able
986
00:57:16,516 --> 00:57:18,767
to get a hold of him or anything.
987
00:57:18,935 --> 00:57:23,021
Yeah, he's probably
beside himself about it.
988
00:57:23,189 --> 00:57:25,023
They took him off the witness list.
989
00:57:25,191 --> 00:57:27,484
I tried calling him after court,
990
00:57:27,652 --> 00:57:31,572
and his phone went right to voicemail.
I call him all day yesterday,
991
00:57:31,739 --> 00:57:35,909
same, after court, same thing.
So, I'm going to go over.
992
00:57:36,077 --> 00:57:39,621
I figure, give him
a little time to cool down.
993
00:57:39,789 --> 00:57:41,290
Yeah.
994
00:57:44,043 --> 00:57:45,502
Yeah.
995
00:57:47,213 --> 00:57:48,714
Where?
996
00:57:49,007 --> 00:57:51,717
I don't know, what was
the body described like?
997
00:57:54,137 --> 00:57:58,140
That's him.
998
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:01,018
Motherfucker.
999
00:58:02,437 --> 00:58:05,063
I'm going by his house right now.
1000
00:58:05,231 --> 00:58:07,649
Yeah, I'll call you
right back, bye.
1001
00:58:07,817 --> 00:58:08,859
- He's dead.
- Woman: He's dead?
1002
00:58:09,027 --> 00:58:13,322
What, what?
What? What happened?
1003
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:16,825
They found him on
the side of the road in Lincoln.
1004
00:58:16,993 --> 00:58:18,076
Woman: In Lincoln, Massachusetts?
1005
00:58:18,244 --> 00:58:18,994
Yeah.
1006
00:58:19,162 --> 00:58:20,496
Woman: Who's in Lincoln,
Massachusetts?
1007
00:58:20,663 --> 00:58:22,372
I gotta go by his house right now.
1008
00:58:22,582 --> 00:58:24,708
Woman: Who's in...
Oh, my God, no way.
1009
00:58:24,876 --> 00:58:27,961
Man: Stephen Rakes is a courthouse
regular, coming each day
1010
00:58:28,171 --> 00:58:31,673
to the Whitey Bulger trial, waiting
for the day when he would testify,
1011
00:58:31,841 --> 00:58:33,884
but Rakes would never
get that chance.
1012
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:35,844
See the corruption?
1013
00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:38,013
Woman: Well, wait,
let's not jump to conclusions.
1014
00:58:38,181 --> 00:58:40,140
Let's say a prayer that he's okay.
1015
00:58:40,308 --> 00:58:42,434
- He's not here.
- Woman: Oh, my God.
1016
00:58:42,644 --> 00:58:44,853
- Woman: Is his car here, Stephen?
- No.
1017
00:58:44,979 --> 00:58:48,023
Woman: Oh, my God. Can you go
knock on the door and see?
1018
00:58:48,191 --> 00:58:49,775
Davis: I knew something was wrong,
1019
00:58:49,901 --> 00:58:52,736
because I talk to him every day,
we meet for coffee.
1020
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:56,949
You know, and that's got
my stomach turned, thinking,
1021
00:58:57,116 --> 00:58:59,701
"Is anyone else in danger?"
1022
00:58:59,869 --> 00:59:02,329
With his testimony,
I used to say to him,
1023
00:59:02,497 --> 00:59:04,623
"Steve, what do you have to say?
I mean, what is it?"
1024
00:59:04,791 --> 00:59:07,251
"Oh, you'll see, you'll see.
1025
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:11,338
Believe me, you'll see how deep
the people... you'll see. "
1026
00:59:11,464 --> 00:59:14,633
Woman: Key witness in
the Whitey Bulger trial is dead.
1027
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:18,178
Woman 2: A source tells CNN,
authorities called the death suspicious.
1028
00:59:18,346 --> 00:59:20,973
Man: We don't know what the cause
of death was, no sign of trauma.
1029
00:59:21,140 --> 00:59:22,891
Don't know if this was a suicide.
1030
00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:25,686
Man 2: It's a very suspicious death.
And the body is seven miles away
1031
00:59:25,812 --> 00:59:28,021
from where his automobile was,
1032
00:59:28,189 --> 00:59:30,440
and he did not have
any identification on him.
1033
00:59:31,025 --> 00:59:33,318
They'll probably say cause of
death was a heart attack,
1034
00:59:33,486 --> 00:59:38,532
an aneurysm, you know, and is it?
We'll never really know.
1035
00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,535
Do you believe what they tell you,
or did something really happen?
1036
00:59:41,744 --> 00:59:45,414
Do you trust your people that are
supposed to serve and protect
1037
00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:47,666
when you know
what we're living through,
1038
00:59:47,834 --> 00:59:50,419
and what's happened in this family?
1039
00:59:50,587 --> 00:59:54,423
What is the truth anymore,
and who do you believe?
1040
01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:03,473
Sometimes, you know, I wish
that this never happened.
1041
01:00:03,641 --> 01:00:06,560
This life... because all the hurt.
1042
01:00:06,728 --> 01:00:09,563
I've had a lot of hurt, Joe,
I mean, from...
1043
01:00:09,731 --> 01:00:14,985
I'm talking from... I can remember
far back as four or five years old.
1044
01:00:16,237 --> 01:00:20,616
I don't have any faith no more.
I want the truth.
1045
01:00:20,783 --> 01:00:23,577
This has tied me up for 32 years.
1046
01:00:23,745 --> 01:00:26,413
They say, you know, ease your pain.
1047
01:00:26,623 --> 01:00:32,544
And honestly, Joe, I got to tell you this,
and I say it with my throat,
1048
01:00:32,712 --> 01:00:35,297
I'd kill this cocksucker
if they ever let him go free,
1049
01:00:35,465 --> 01:00:37,466
and I'd tell the...
1050
01:00:40,261 --> 01:00:44,806
Tell the judge that and I wouldn't
give a fuck about going away for it.
1051
01:00:45,016 --> 01:00:48,393
This prick here is never gonna
run free, because I...
1052
01:00:48,603 --> 01:00:50,896
I mean it, I'd take him out.
1053
01:00:56,986 --> 01:01:00,238
Man: Prosecutors put former hit man
John Martorano on the stand
1054
01:01:00,406 --> 01:01:03,283
to prove that Bulger's reign
was murderous.
1055
01:01:03,451 --> 01:01:05,702
Woman: Martorano was perhaps
the most feared member
1056
01:01:05,870 --> 01:01:07,454
of Bulger's Winter Hill Gang.
1057
01:01:07,705 --> 01:01:11,208
...testified he was James Whitey
Bulger's chief executioner.
1058
01:01:11,376 --> 01:01:12,751
Man: Killing was routine.
1059
01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:15,253
In all, Martorano
murdered at least 20 people.
1060
01:01:15,463 --> 01:01:17,839
Woman: Martorano served
just 12 years in prison
1061
01:01:18,007 --> 01:01:20,425
as part of a deal
with federal prosecutors.
1062
01:01:20,593 --> 01:01:22,928
Man 2: The confessed murderer
was asked about a number of killings
1063
01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:26,264
he committed, including
the killing of Roger Wheeler,
1064
01:01:26,432 --> 01:01:28,975
the president of World Jai-Alai,
in Oklahoma.
1065
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:34,564
Boeri: The Jai Alai murders are
the heart of this, because they show
1066
01:01:34,732 --> 01:01:37,984
how ugly and sordid
everything became.
1067
01:01:38,152 --> 01:01:42,948
This is shocking. He is killed
in daylight, at a country club,
1068
01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:45,909
while kids at the swimming pool
are watching.
1069
01:01:46,953 --> 01:01:48,203
Wyshak: And who was Roger Wheeler?
1070
01:01:48,371 --> 01:01:51,331
Martorano: He was the owner of Jai Alai,
World Jai Alai... it was a game.
1071
01:01:51,499 --> 01:01:53,166
Wyshak: Did that game
involve gambling?
1072
01:01:53,334 --> 01:01:54,918
Martorano: Yes.
1073
01:01:55,086 --> 01:01:58,672
Man: I never did like gambling.
But the Bank of Boston
1074
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:00,799
brought him this Jai Alai deal.
1075
01:02:01,050 --> 01:02:04,177
And part of the deal,
because I kept asking him about this,
1076
01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:07,889
he said that the FBl
keeps it clean.
1077
01:02:08,099 --> 01:02:12,018
It's run by retired FBl agents
that specialized
1078
01:02:12,270 --> 01:02:15,981
in investigating organized crime,
and they keep the Mob out.
1079
01:02:16,190 --> 01:02:19,109
Boeri: So, Wheeler buys this company,
World Jai Alai.
1080
01:02:19,235 --> 01:02:23,155
Unbeknownst to him, it's infiltrated
by the Mob already,
1081
01:02:23,322 --> 01:02:24,865
connected to Winter Hill.
1082
01:02:25,032 --> 01:02:28,285
Weeks: World Jai Alai
hired John Callahan,
1083
01:02:28,453 --> 01:02:30,871
a friend of John Martorano,
as a president.
1084
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,166
And they had H. Paul Rico
head of security.
1085
01:02:34,292 --> 01:02:37,586
And Rico was a corrupt
ex-FBl agent, and he had
1086
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:40,088
and he had relationships
with Winter Hill.
1087
01:02:40,256 --> 01:02:45,302
Callahan is actually the architect who
first brought the scheme forward with Rico,
1088
01:02:45,470 --> 01:02:49,181
to kill Wheeler, and then
go to his widow and buy it,
1089
01:02:49,390 --> 01:02:51,767
buy World Jai Alai,
they would be the owners,
1090
01:02:51,851 --> 01:02:54,436
and the money was going to be
kicked back to Winter Hill.
1091
01:02:54,562 --> 01:02:58,482
Paul Rico'd resell it to the people back
up here that he was involved with before.
1092
01:02:58,649 --> 01:03:00,776
Martorano: Callahan... he asked me to
take out Roger Wheeler.
1093
01:03:00,943 --> 01:03:02,527
Wyshak: What was
your reaction to that?
1094
01:03:02,695 --> 01:03:04,613
Martorano: I couldn't do that
without everybody else on board.
1095
01:03:04,906 --> 01:03:07,449
Wyshak: And when you said you had
to get everybody else on board,
1096
01:03:07,617 --> 01:03:08,533
who did you mean?
1097
01:03:08,701 --> 01:03:11,661
Martorano: Whitey and Stevie.
They said they were on board,
1098
01:03:11,829 --> 01:03:14,581
whatever they could do
to help, they'd help.
1099
01:03:14,749 --> 01:03:18,752
Weeks: In the end of it, John
Martorano shot Wheeler in the head.
1100
01:03:24,926 --> 01:03:29,012
Cullen: There were honest FBl agents
in Oklahoma who wanted to get to
1101
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:31,348
the bottom of the murder
of Roger Wheeler.
1102
01:03:31,516 --> 01:03:35,685
Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi
were implicated, and the FBl in Boston
1103
01:03:35,853 --> 01:03:40,023
lied to the FBl in Oklahoma.
They said Bulger and Flemmi
1104
01:03:40,107 --> 01:03:43,485
had nothing to do with it,
they have alibis, we've checked it out.
1105
01:03:43,653 --> 01:03:47,113
That was a lie. And murderers
went free because of it.
1106
01:03:49,867 --> 01:03:53,662
Man: You hold the FBl
as responsible as Bulger
1107
01:03:53,788 --> 01:03:54,913
for the death of your father?
1108
01:03:55,122 --> 01:03:59,042
More responsible.
The FBl has protected him,
1109
01:03:59,293 --> 01:04:01,378
they have supervised him,
1110
01:04:01,504 --> 01:04:06,216
and without the FBl,
my father would be alive today.
1111
01:04:08,594 --> 01:04:13,348
Next person that emerges
in this story is Brian Halloran.
1112
01:04:13,516 --> 01:04:17,310
Halloran is facing his own problems,
namely he's charged
1113
01:04:17,478 --> 01:04:19,437
with murdering a drug dealer.
1114
01:04:19,647 --> 01:04:22,774
He needs help.
And this is the typical system
1115
01:04:23,025 --> 01:04:25,360
of informants
and cooperating witnesses,
1116
01:04:25,528 --> 01:04:28,613
he wants to make a deal.
And so he comes forward,
1117
01:04:28,781 --> 01:04:32,117
and he can give up Whitey Bulger
and Stephen Flemmi he says,
1118
01:04:32,285 --> 01:04:35,662
because they were part of a plot
to kill Roger Wheeler.
1119
01:04:35,830 --> 01:04:38,957
So, Halloran is a threat
to Bulger and Flemmi.
1120
01:04:39,125 --> 01:04:42,377
They eliminate Halloran,
and in the process of eliminating him,
1121
01:04:42,545 --> 01:04:45,881
they kill Michael Donahue,
1122
01:04:46,090 --> 01:04:48,550
somebody he knew
from the neighborhood.
1123
01:04:50,052 --> 01:04:52,262
Woman: Of the 19
alleged murder victims,
1124
01:04:52,430 --> 01:04:55,432
their loved ones have become
fixtures at this trial and today,
1125
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:57,809
Patricia Donahue took the stand.
1126
01:04:57,977 --> 01:05:00,770
Donahue: All I want to do is clear
my husband's name.
1127
01:05:00,938 --> 01:05:06,109
I did not want him associated with
the Mafia, with Whitey Bulger,
1128
01:05:06,277 --> 01:05:08,069
with Brian Halloran.
1129
01:05:08,237 --> 01:05:11,907
You know, he wasn't into that, he
didn't even know those people.
1130
01:05:12,074 --> 01:05:15,869
He was innocent,
he wasn't in trouble,
1131
01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:19,247
he wasn't a Mafia man,
he wasn't a killer.
1132
01:05:19,415 --> 01:05:22,375
Mike was 32 when he died.
1133
01:05:22,501 --> 01:05:25,503
He actually would've
been 33 in a week.
1134
01:05:27,131 --> 01:05:30,967
Whitey pulled the trigger,
but I blame the FBl, too.
1135
01:05:31,135 --> 01:05:33,219
They knew what was gonna happen.
1136
01:05:35,139 --> 01:05:36,222
There goes Whitey.
1137
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:37,682
That's funny.
1138
01:05:37,850 --> 01:05:41,603
- I'm serious, lookit.
- Woman: There's Whitey, people.
1139
01:05:42,188 --> 01:05:45,148
We'll see you in there, you lowlife.
1140
01:05:47,276 --> 01:05:50,695
Man: Michael Donahue was murdered
simply because he offered
1141
01:05:50,821 --> 01:05:53,365
a neighbor, Brian Halloran,
a ride home.
1142
01:05:53,532 --> 01:05:55,909
Unbeknownst to Michael Donahue,
1143
01:05:56,077 --> 01:06:00,246
Brian Halloran at the time
was cooperating with the FBl,
1144
01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:04,793
and was about to reveal
that James Bulger was involved
1145
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:07,671
in the murder of Roger Wheeler.
1146
01:06:08,339 --> 01:06:11,466
Fitzpatrick: After the
Wheeler murder, Halloran comes in,
1147
01:06:11,634 --> 01:06:15,387
and he wants to talk.
We open him up as an informant,
1148
01:06:15,554 --> 01:06:20,892
and he begins telling us that this
was done by Bulger and Flemmi.
1149
01:06:21,060 --> 01:06:25,355
And so, I opened up murder cases
on Bulger and Flemmi.
1150
01:06:26,357 --> 01:06:28,024
Now you have to understand
something here.
1151
01:06:28,192 --> 01:06:31,569
Halloran is giving us the subject.
1152
01:06:31,737 --> 01:06:35,699
He's telling us this guy
is the killer of Wheeler,
1153
01:06:35,866 --> 01:06:40,704
Bulger is the killer of Wheeler.
That's a plus, that's a big plus.
1154
01:06:40,871 --> 01:06:43,999
They should be very happy,
they being the Department of Justice
1155
01:06:44,208 --> 01:06:47,252
and the Strike Force Chief
Jerry O'Sullivan.
1156
01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:49,504
And yet, they're not.
1157
01:06:49,672 --> 01:06:53,591
O'Sullivan said,
"No, I'm not gonna put Halloran
1158
01:06:53,718 --> 01:06:55,552
in a witness protection program. "
1159
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,012
Why not?
1160
01:06:57,138 --> 01:06:58,930
So I went over O'Sullivan's head.
1161
01:06:59,098 --> 01:07:01,725
I went to the United
States Attorney, Bill Weld.
1162
01:07:01,892 --> 01:07:05,645
And I said to Bill Weld,
"Bill, we got a problem.
1163
01:07:05,855 --> 01:07:10,316
I got an informant, Halloran, that's
gonna tell us who did this stuff.
1164
01:07:10,484 --> 01:07:13,028
And O'Sullivan is feeling
that he should not be
1165
01:07:13,195 --> 01:07:14,779
in the Witness Protection program. "
1166
01:07:14,947 --> 01:07:17,907
I told Weld, he's gonna get whacked.
1167
01:07:18,117 --> 01:07:23,121
At the same time, John Morris
at the FBl, told John Connolly
1168
01:07:23,289 --> 01:07:27,042
that Brian Halloran was
revealing Bulger's involvement.
1169
01:07:27,209 --> 01:07:29,627
And Morris knew full well
that John Connolly
1170
01:07:29,837 --> 01:07:33,214
would convey that information
to Whitey Bulger. And he did.
1171
01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:38,011
Weeks: We received word from the FBl
that Brian Halloran
1172
01:07:38,220 --> 01:07:40,680
was cooperating with the FBl
about the Wheeler murder.
1173
01:07:40,848 --> 01:07:44,601
So Jim Bulger and Steve Flemmi,
myself and other people
1174
01:07:44,769 --> 01:07:46,019
go out looking for him.
1175
01:07:46,187 --> 01:07:50,607
One day we got word that Brian
Halloran was down the waterfront.
1176
01:07:50,816 --> 01:07:53,777
Michael Donahue happened to
have gone down to the pier
1177
01:07:53,944 --> 01:07:57,280
in South Boston to get fish
to use as bait
1178
01:07:57,448 --> 01:08:02,118
to take one of his sons on a fishing trip.
And he stopped to have a beer
1179
01:08:02,286 --> 01:08:06,956
on his way home. He ran into
Brian Halloran who was his neighbor.
1180
01:08:07,124 --> 01:08:09,292
He offered to give him a ride home.
1181
01:08:09,460 --> 01:08:11,836
So we went down the waterfront,
you know,
1182
01:08:11,962 --> 01:08:15,757
we got the hit car, weapons,
and everyone, you know.
1183
01:08:15,925 --> 01:08:17,634
He was geared up and stuff.
And I went down ahead,
1184
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,552
I sat across the street and watched
1185
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,846
to make sure Brian Halloran
was, in fact, there.
1186
01:08:22,014 --> 01:08:24,891
You know, when he started
coming out, I told Jim Bulger,
1187
01:08:25,059 --> 01:08:28,311
and Jim Bulger pulled up, and he shot
Brian Halloran and killed him.
1188
01:08:29,730 --> 01:08:32,398
Michael Donahue
was an unintended victim.
1189
01:08:32,566 --> 01:08:36,111
He wasn't supposed to be
getting killed, it was Brian Halloran
1190
01:08:36,278 --> 01:08:39,114
that we were going to kill.
But he hung around with Halloran.
1191
01:08:39,281 --> 01:08:41,699
You want to hang around
with gangsters and wise guys,
1192
01:08:41,867 --> 01:08:43,576
this is what happens.
1193
01:08:46,205 --> 01:08:50,166
Woman: Patricia Donahue has spent
the last 32 years raising three sons
1194
01:08:50,376 --> 01:08:51,876
without her husband Michael.
1195
01:08:52,044 --> 01:08:55,964
Today she finally faced his alleged killer,
James Whitey Bulger.
1196
01:08:57,299 --> 01:09:01,052
Donahue: It was Mother's Day, and Tommy
had just made his first Communion.
1197
01:09:01,178 --> 01:09:05,181
I was in the kitchen cooking.
A news bulletin came on the TV
1198
01:09:05,349 --> 01:09:08,017
about a gangland slaying.
I didn't pay any attention to it,
1199
01:09:08,185 --> 01:09:09,936
because I knew it didn't
concern me.
1200
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:13,356
And I just so happened to look up
and see the car.
1201
01:09:13,482 --> 01:09:16,901
And I said, "I think that was his car. "
I mean, I was hyperventilating,
1202
01:09:17,069 --> 01:09:19,320
I was, like, confused.
1203
01:09:19,488 --> 01:09:21,823
I'm thinking, "Oh my God,
where is he?
1204
01:09:21,991 --> 01:09:24,784
I need to be with him,
I don't want him to die alone,
1205
01:09:24,910 --> 01:09:28,621
I have so much stuff I want
to say to him," you know?
1206
01:09:28,789 --> 01:09:32,125
And, nobody came
until ten o'clock that night.
1207
01:09:32,334 --> 01:09:34,836
So when they took me
to the hospital finally,
1208
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:36,713
he had already passed.
1209
01:09:37,548 --> 01:09:40,550
Within days of the killing, FBl agents,
they came to my house
1210
01:09:40,676 --> 01:09:45,305
and harassed me. Accused me of having
an affair with my husband's friend
1211
01:09:45,431 --> 01:09:47,557
that was staying with us
from out of town.
1212
01:09:47,725 --> 01:09:51,394
I mean, I was like," What?"
For months, they used to sit
1213
01:09:51,562 --> 01:09:54,856
outside my salon, you know.
They'd sit outside the house
1214
01:09:55,024 --> 01:09:56,983
and I'd say, "How you doing,
have you found out
1215
01:09:57,109 --> 01:09:58,735
any more information on my husband?"
1216
01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:03,781
"No, nothing yet. "
And the whole time they knew.
1217
01:10:03,949 --> 01:10:06,576
And I was devastated
because I did not think
1218
01:10:06,744 --> 01:10:08,870
that the government was like that.
1219
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:11,080
You know, you think you know them,
1220
01:10:11,248 --> 01:10:14,292
and you find out they're
not who you think they are.
1221
01:10:15,711 --> 01:10:17,921
Murphy: Bulger and Flemmi
are suspects,
1222
01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:20,131
now, not only in the Wheeler murder,
1223
01:10:20,257 --> 01:10:22,258
but in the Halloran
and Donahue murders.
1224
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:27,305
And nothing happens. The FBl
decides to look for John Callahan,
1225
01:10:27,473 --> 01:10:30,099
"We need to question John Callahan,
he's the other guy
1226
01:10:30,267 --> 01:10:33,186
who was also implicated
in the murder of Roger Wheeler. "
1227
01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:37,106
They're hunting for him to question him,
and then he's murdered.
1228
01:10:38,359 --> 01:10:41,778
Again, nothing happens.
The FBl in Boston,
1229
01:10:41,946 --> 01:10:44,697
who do they send out to question
Bulger and Flemmi?
1230
01:10:44,865 --> 01:10:47,075
John Connolly. Their handler.
1231
01:10:47,243 --> 01:10:49,494
Because we know he's objective, right?
1232
01:10:52,248 --> 01:10:54,916
The FBl,
they haven't been on our side
1233
01:10:55,042 --> 01:10:57,377
since the day they killed my father.
1234
01:10:57,586 --> 01:11:00,838
Took them four and a half hours
to come to my house to tell my mother,
1235
01:11:01,006 --> 01:11:03,883
my mother,
whether my father was dead or alive.
1236
01:11:04,051 --> 01:11:06,761
They covered up
the murder of my father,
1237
01:11:06,929 --> 01:11:11,516
helped pretty much set it up.
It's, it's, it's shameful, it's shameful.
1238
01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:13,768
I think the FBl is
worse than the Mafia.
1239
01:11:13,936 --> 01:11:16,729
They're the most organized
crime family on the planet,
1240
01:11:16,981 --> 01:11:19,899
who can do whatever they want,
change the laws when they want,
1241
01:11:20,067 --> 01:11:22,235
and they're not to be screwed with,
to be honest with you.
1242
01:11:22,403 --> 01:11:24,904
We've seen that first-hand.
1243
01:11:25,656 --> 01:11:28,491
Woman: Tell us what it was like
to be on the stand today
1244
01:11:28,701 --> 01:11:31,160
and look into Whitey Bulger's eyes.
1245
01:11:31,328 --> 01:11:34,455
Well, I looked right at him,
but of course he wouldn't look at me,
1246
01:11:34,665 --> 01:11:36,916
so as far as I'm concerned,
he's a coward.
1247
01:11:37,084 --> 01:11:41,379
He can kill people and not look the
victims in the face, that's a coward.
1248
01:11:41,547 --> 01:11:42,588
That's a coward.
1249
01:11:42,756 --> 01:11:45,842
You've been saying you're getting
more answers from his defense team...
1250
01:11:46,051 --> 01:11:47,844
I am, I am.
1251
01:11:48,012 --> 01:11:49,887
And then Jay Carney comes up,
and he asks you questions
1252
01:11:50,014 --> 01:11:52,432
that are really meant
to benefit Whitey.
1253
01:11:52,558 --> 01:11:54,726
Does that put you
in a strange position?
1254
01:11:54,852 --> 01:11:56,686
The questions that Carney
was asking my mother,
1255
01:11:56,854 --> 01:11:59,814
those are questions the government
should be asking my mother.
1256
01:11:59,982 --> 01:12:03,985
Did you notice the government stood up
and blocked every question they asked.
1257
01:12:04,111 --> 01:12:07,947
They don't want us to know anything.
It was blunt, right there.
1258
01:12:08,115 --> 01:12:09,949
Carney was asking questions
to help us,
1259
01:12:10,117 --> 01:12:12,827
and we were getting blocked
by the prosecution.
1260
01:12:12,995 --> 01:12:15,121
Where do we go here, folks?
1261
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:23,546
Kelly: In the early 90s, when Fred and I
first started working on this case,
1262
01:12:23,756 --> 01:12:29,260
it was strange to us, to say the least,
that this individual, Bulger,
1263
01:12:29,470 --> 01:12:32,305
had been allowed to run amok
in the city of Boston for so long.
1264
01:12:32,514 --> 01:12:35,850
We suspected, as did many
other people in law enforcement,
1265
01:12:36,018 --> 01:12:39,395
that Bulger had some relationship
with the FBl
1266
01:12:39,605 --> 01:12:41,230
that was...
1267
01:12:41,398 --> 01:12:46,903
He was using to prevent
prosecution of himself.
1268
01:12:47,071 --> 01:12:52,976
It was in that atmosphere that we
began the case, and targeted him.
1269
01:12:53,243 --> 01:12:57,580
And we worked with Tom Foley,
also Tom Duffy from the state police,
1270
01:12:57,748 --> 01:12:59,665
who were very savvy investigators.
1271
01:13:01,043 --> 01:13:04,212
So what we decided to do was follow
the money, and we started targeting
1272
01:13:04,421 --> 01:13:08,966
a bottom line bookmaker
with some of the informants that we had.
1273
01:13:09,093 --> 01:13:11,594
We put up a bunch of wiretaps,
and we started climbing up
1274
01:13:11,762 --> 01:13:13,679
these bookmakers' organizations.
1275
01:13:13,847 --> 01:13:17,266
We went from low to mid,
up to the higher level bookmaker,
1276
01:13:17,476 --> 01:13:22,605
until we actually had the highest level,
where that bookmaker was doing
1277
01:13:22,731 --> 01:13:26,901
the hand-off to Bulger and Flemmi
as far as payments go.
1278
01:13:27,069 --> 01:13:31,280
It took Brian and I about
four or five years to get there.
1279
01:13:31,448 --> 01:13:36,160
By 1995, we had our first
racketeering indictment.
1280
01:13:36,328 --> 01:13:40,039
Back then, Fred took a lot of
hits over the years,
1281
01:13:40,207 --> 01:13:44,585
and we had the courage to go up
against the system, Brian Kelly too.
1282
01:13:44,753 --> 01:13:50,216
There was many, right inside the US
Attorney's office, that were in denial,
1283
01:13:50,426 --> 01:13:54,011
didn't want to see this
come forward. And they said,
1284
01:13:54,179 --> 01:13:57,348
"Well, we're going to wait, we'll do
a joint investigation with the FBl. "
1285
01:13:57,516 --> 01:14:01,144
And I knew at that time
that this was another stall tactic.
1286
01:14:01,311 --> 01:14:05,064
And I told them that, I said,
"Okay, if that's the way
1287
01:14:05,232 --> 01:14:08,985
you want to go, but the state
police's position publicly
1288
01:14:09,153 --> 01:14:13,406
will be you had the opportunity to
indict him and you didn't indict him. "
1289
01:14:13,574 --> 01:14:16,367
So, they went back and they had
another huddle with the US Attorney,
1290
01:14:16,535 --> 01:14:20,163
and they said, "Okay, the indictment,
we will indict him. "
1291
01:14:20,372 --> 01:14:25,168
But they insisted that the FBl
participate in the arrest.
1292
01:14:25,335 --> 01:14:30,173
So state police targeted Flemmi.
The FBl said they'll take Bulger.
1293
01:14:30,340 --> 01:14:33,426
And then one night on January 5th,
we found Flemmi,
1294
01:14:33,635 --> 01:14:37,263
and we arrested him
on the streets of Boston.
1295
01:14:37,431 --> 01:14:42,518
And we arrested that same weekend,
John Martorano down in Florida.
1296
01:14:42,686 --> 01:14:46,856
And we notified the FBl,
"Okay, grab Bulger. "
1297
01:14:47,024 --> 01:14:49,692
And, uh... that was the end of that.
1298
01:14:50,569 --> 01:14:53,613
They never had Bulger,
didn't know where he was.
1299
01:14:53,822 --> 01:14:58,493
And it was 16 years later before we
saw James Whitey Bulger again.
1300
01:15:06,376 --> 01:15:09,879
We expected that he was tipped
off, and we found out later that
1301
01:15:10,047 --> 01:15:15,176
that's what actually had happened.
One of the FBl agents in Boston
1302
01:15:15,385 --> 01:15:18,387
told John Connolly that
the indictments were coming down,
1303
01:15:18,555 --> 01:15:21,849
and he passed the information
along to Bulger.
1304
01:15:24,561 --> 01:15:28,773
After months of sitting in jail,
Stephen Flemmi realized the FBl
1305
01:15:28,982 --> 01:15:31,692
and John Connolly were not
coming to his rescue, and he
1306
01:15:31,818 --> 01:15:35,947
and he decided to out himself
and Bulger's FBl informants.
1307
01:15:37,324 --> 01:15:40,034
I'll never forget, when he
said he was an informant.
1308
01:15:40,285 --> 01:15:43,204
I went up to visit him the next day,
or a day later, I said to him,
1309
01:15:43,372 --> 01:15:46,999
I go, "Stevie, you're an informant,
you've been giving everybody up. "
1310
01:15:47,167 --> 01:15:51,629
And he said to me,
"Why should I do another day
1311
01:15:51,838 --> 01:15:54,298
with all the information
I've given them people. "
1312
01:15:54,466 --> 01:15:56,676
I looked at him.
Now I'm like,
1313
01:15:56,885 --> 01:15:58,761
"Okay, you know,
what's his next step?"
1314
01:15:58,929 --> 01:16:01,639
You know, who's he got left
to give up?
1315
01:16:01,807 --> 01:16:05,101
And he looked at me, he said, "Well,
we never said anything about you. "
1316
01:16:05,269 --> 01:16:08,271
So I was on the phone talking to him
through the glass.
1317
01:16:08,397 --> 01:16:11,774
I took the phone and hung it up,
and I stood up, and I looked at him.
1318
01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:14,485
I says, "You couldn't say anything
about me. "
1319
01:16:14,653 --> 01:16:18,406
I says, "Everything I did, I did with you. "
I says, "You couldn't give me up
1320
01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:19,949
without giving yourself up. "
1321
01:16:21,827 --> 01:16:25,288
Carney: Did you have any idea
that Flemmi was an informant
1322
01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:28,833
until he revealed it
in a court hearing in 1999?
1323
01:16:29,042 --> 01:16:33,129
Bulger: I didn't know that Stevie
did that there, I had no idea.
1324
01:16:33,297 --> 01:16:35,423
And when I heard it,
I was shocked.
1325
01:16:35,549 --> 01:16:37,258
I mean, Stevie was like my brother.
1326
01:16:37,467 --> 01:16:41,304
I mean, I was so close to him.
He fooled me, he fooled the Mafia,
1327
01:16:41,513 --> 01:16:44,682
he fooled Johnny, everybody.
I mean, I was shocked.
1328
01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:47,685
I never believed he would ever do
anything like that.
1329
01:16:47,853 --> 01:16:51,939
Did you ever have an instance
where Stevie provided
1330
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:54,400
some information in your presence?
1331
01:16:54,568 --> 01:16:58,112
One time John Connolly asked him
a question and Stevie answered,
1332
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:01,824
he gave a name. When I heard that
I brought the thing to a close,
1333
01:17:01,992 --> 01:17:03,701
and I told Steve, "C'mon, let's go. "
1334
01:17:03,869 --> 01:17:06,287
And I start hollering at him
as we went down the stairs,
1335
01:17:06,413 --> 01:17:08,873
I told him,
"What the fuck did you do that for?"
1336
01:17:09,082 --> 01:17:13,210
I says, "We're paying, we're not saying.
We're buying, we're not selling. "
1337
01:17:14,421 --> 01:17:17,048
Brennan: When Stephen Flemmi came out
and said he was an informant
1338
01:17:17,257 --> 01:17:20,009
and was granted immunity,
the government wanted to shut him up,
1339
01:17:20,218 --> 01:17:22,553
and John Connolly made the mistake
of coming in
1340
01:17:22,721 --> 01:17:26,140
and taking Steve Flemmi's side and
saying, "We did give him immunity.
1341
01:17:26,308 --> 01:17:30,436
The entire D.O.J. did it, you knew we were
doing it, that's what you told us to do.
1342
01:17:30,604 --> 01:17:33,189
You paid us to do it,
you gave us bonuses to do it. "
1343
01:17:33,315 --> 01:17:35,816
At that point, the federal government
was either going to have to expose
1344
01:17:36,026 --> 01:17:38,110
all the corruptness
in the federal government,
1345
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:41,781
all the murders, or they have to say
that John Connolly is a liar.
1346
01:17:43,158 --> 01:17:46,952
Man: John wouldn't play ball
with the prosecutors.
1347
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:48,329
They then focused on John.
1348
01:17:48,497 --> 01:17:51,457
"Oh, okay, you don't want to play
ball with us, we'll show you. "
1349
01:17:51,625 --> 01:17:53,542
And they then started
looking at John,
1350
01:17:53,752 --> 01:17:55,628
and made a case against John.
1351
01:17:56,254 --> 01:18:00,633
The government decided that the person
they really needed to get is Connolly,
1352
01:18:00,842 --> 01:18:03,177
that's the case
they're trying to make.
1353
01:18:03,428 --> 01:18:08,683
So John Martorano who had never met
John Connolly, never met him,
1354
01:18:08,850 --> 01:18:13,229
goes to them and says, "I can link
John Connolly to the Wheeler murder.
1355
01:18:13,438 --> 01:18:17,692
And I can link John Connolly
to the Callahan murder. "
1356
01:18:23,281 --> 01:18:27,451
Man: The defendant John Connolly,
he's just another member of the gang.
1357
01:18:27,619 --> 01:18:30,413
They pay him money,
he gives them information.
1358
01:18:30,622 --> 01:18:33,207
English: They arrive at the conclusion
that Martorano is gold
1359
01:18:33,458 --> 01:18:36,252
as a witness and that he can
single-handedly help us
1360
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:40,506
put away John Connolly
and maybe Jimmy Bulger
1361
01:18:40,716 --> 01:18:42,216
if Jimmy Bulger ever turns up.
1362
01:18:42,384 --> 01:18:45,136
Man: Who did you believe you were
going to be protecting,
1363
01:18:45,303 --> 01:18:47,304
by killing Callahan?
1364
01:18:47,472 --> 01:18:50,766
I was protecting myself,
Whitey Bulger, Stevie Flemmi,
1365
01:18:50,934 --> 01:18:52,476
and John Connolly.
1366
01:18:52,602 --> 01:18:55,354
McDonald: They need John Connolly
to be the scapegoat.
1367
01:18:55,522 --> 01:18:59,024
They've got to have
Connolly as the corrupt agent,
1368
01:18:59,192 --> 01:19:02,111
with respect to all
of what went on in Boston,
1369
01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:05,698
with respect to the top
echelon informant program,
1370
01:19:05,866 --> 01:19:08,075
they have to have someone to blame.
1371
01:19:08,243 --> 01:19:12,538
Why are you prosecuting Connolly
for the Callahan murder,
1372
01:19:12,789 --> 01:19:14,874
when you know
the killer is Martorano,
1373
01:19:15,041 --> 01:19:17,668
the guy who actually
pulled the trigger, for Pete's sake.
1374
01:19:17,794 --> 01:19:19,754
But they convicted John Connolly,
1375
01:19:19,963 --> 01:19:22,631
and then he was sentenced
for 40 years.
1376
01:19:25,886 --> 01:19:30,139
Kelly: Martorano's plea agreement has
been roundly criticized for good reason.
1377
01:19:30,390 --> 01:19:33,017
Most people think he should have
gotten more than 12 years,
1378
01:19:33,185 --> 01:19:35,102
and we're no exception to that view.
1379
01:19:35,270 --> 01:19:40,232
He is in fact a ruthless killer,
but at the time we had no evidence
1380
01:19:40,484 --> 01:19:44,236
of his killing. And when he pled
guilty he not only got more time,
1381
01:19:44,404 --> 01:19:49,575
but he also led to a series of events,
he made cooperation fashionable.
1382
01:19:49,785 --> 01:19:51,994
Man: Mr. Weeks, if you will
come forward, please.
1383
01:19:52,162 --> 01:19:56,290
I was arrested November 17, '99
and they were telling me
1384
01:19:56,458 --> 01:20:00,044
what it came down to,
make it really quick and simple,
1385
01:20:00,253 --> 01:20:02,046
is that it's a race.
1386
01:20:02,214 --> 01:20:04,215
It's either you or Stevie,
and you're going to get
1387
01:20:04,382 --> 01:20:07,218
the last seat on the bus,
but whichever one of youse
1388
01:20:07,344 --> 01:20:09,678
get up there first to make a deal
with the government
1389
01:20:09,763 --> 01:20:11,388
is going to get the best deal.
1390
01:20:13,099 --> 01:20:15,643
You know, what's Stevie gonna do?
Stevie's gonna give me up,
1391
01:20:15,769 --> 01:20:17,645
and say it was Kevin, and it was
this one and it was that one
1392
01:20:17,813 --> 01:20:19,647
that killed all these people,
it wasn't us.
1393
01:20:19,773 --> 01:20:22,149
You know, here's the bodies.
That's where they put them and stuff.
1394
01:20:22,359 --> 01:20:24,485
I said no, there's no way I'm
taking it up the ass for them.
1395
01:20:24,653 --> 01:20:28,781
So I made the deal first.
I figured you can't rat on a rat.
1396
01:20:28,990 --> 01:20:33,118
Kelly: Kevin Weeks, his plea was
a critical turning point in this case
1397
01:20:33,286 --> 01:20:36,455
because he literally led us
to the bodies, he brought us
1398
01:20:36,623 --> 01:20:40,626
to the burial grounds where we saw
for ourselves Bulger's handiwork.
1399
01:20:41,962 --> 01:20:45,881
Carney: Kevin Weeks, five murders,
he does five years.
1400
01:20:46,091 --> 01:20:50,970
John Martorano, for 20 murders
he got a sentence of 12 years,
1401
01:20:51,096 --> 01:20:54,348
plus they let him keep money,
keep property.
1402
01:20:54,474 --> 01:20:57,560
They got him a waiver of
the death penalty in Oklahoma,
1403
01:20:57,686 --> 01:21:00,646
and a waiver of the death penalty
in Florida.
1404
01:21:00,772 --> 01:21:04,817
They paid his commissary fees
while he was in prison,
1405
01:21:04,985 --> 01:21:09,029
and when he got out,
gave him a $20,000 check.
1406
01:21:09,239 --> 01:21:12,449
Man: A quarter of a million dollar
advance for selling the movie rights
1407
01:21:12,659 --> 01:21:15,870
to his life story,
$110,000 or something advance
1408
01:21:16,037 --> 01:21:17,413
for the book he co-wrote.
1409
01:21:17,581 --> 01:21:20,708
- Man 2: The state calls John Morris.
- Man 3: John Morris, please.
1410
01:21:20,876 --> 01:21:24,378
I would say the most scandalous deal
that the government made
1411
01:21:24,504 --> 01:21:27,423
was with one of their own
and that was John Morris,
1412
01:21:27,591 --> 01:21:30,718
who was John Connolly's
equally corrupt supervisor,
1413
01:21:30,844 --> 01:21:36,140
and who got people killed,
and he got no time, nothing.
1414
01:21:36,349 --> 01:21:39,143
John had told me
that these guys really like you
1415
01:21:39,352 --> 01:21:44,023
and if you ever needed anything
to just ask.
1416
01:21:44,232 --> 01:21:48,360
Man: John Morris is corrupt an FBl
official as one could possibly be,
1417
01:21:48,486 --> 01:21:52,823
not a minute in jail.
He's a wine consultant now.
1418
01:21:53,074 --> 01:21:58,871
I didn't want what happened to me
to happen to other agents.
1419
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,291
Mr. Flemmi, if you'll stand up
and raise your right hand,
1420
01:22:02,459 --> 01:22:03,834
Linda will swear you in.
1421
01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:07,171
Flemmi wound up making his deal
when it was really too late
1422
01:22:07,339 --> 01:22:10,633
to get a good deal, so he wound up
getting a life sentence,
1423
01:22:10,884 --> 01:22:13,969
and now he's become kind of
a professional witness
1424
01:22:14,137 --> 01:22:18,724
for the government, and he's just a
windup doll who says what he believes
1425
01:22:18,892 --> 01:22:21,518
he needs to say so that
the government will give him
1426
01:22:21,686 --> 01:22:25,731
better accommodations in prison,
they'll do little things for him
1427
01:22:25,899 --> 01:22:28,192
that will make the fact that
he's spending the rest of his life
1428
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:29,818
in prison a little more comfortable.
1429
01:22:29,986 --> 01:22:32,905
He's a pathetic creation
of the system at this point.
1430
01:22:33,073 --> 01:22:35,407
Carney: Do you see the defendant
Mr. Connolly in the courtroom?
1431
01:22:35,575 --> 01:22:39,328
I see him, yes.
Good-looking gentleman,
1432
01:22:39,496 --> 01:22:43,415
he's got a nice haircut.
I know him very well.
1433
01:22:44,376 --> 01:22:47,127
English: These guys, they're all
violating the gangster code.
1434
01:22:47,253 --> 01:22:51,465
They all became some version of
a rat by testifying against people.
1435
01:22:51,591 --> 01:22:54,301
They've all had to reconcile it
in their conscience
1436
01:22:54,469 --> 01:22:58,597
why they did this and they've
all created their little stories,
1437
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:03,560
their own internal fictions,
of why they've had to do what they do.
1438
01:23:05,730 --> 01:23:08,732
Davis: The state of Massachusetts
has got more rats in it.
1439
01:23:08,900 --> 01:23:14,697
It's like an infested rat hole.
The Irish mob, every one of them,
1440
01:23:14,864 --> 01:23:19,159
They were stumbling over each other
just to rat.
1441
01:23:19,369 --> 01:23:24,164
They walk around talking big, tough guy
shit, and they're fucking rats.
1442
01:23:24,332 --> 01:23:28,627
The federal court right here,
doesn't it look like a mouse hole?
1443
01:23:30,797 --> 01:23:32,631
- Man: Good for rats, right?
- Yeah.
1444
01:23:32,841 --> 01:23:34,842
That's where all the rats go.
1445
01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:43,058
Woman: It was a tense reunion
18 years in the making.
1446
01:23:43,226 --> 01:23:44,977
Finally, James Whitey Bulger
1447
01:23:45,145 --> 01:23:48,188
and his partner Stephen
"The Rifleman" Flemmi were reunited
1448
01:23:48,398 --> 01:23:50,649
as Flemmi took the stand
against Bulger.
1449
01:23:50,817 --> 01:23:54,695
Man: Stephen Flemmi is considered to
be the most critical witness in this case.
1450
01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:57,740
Woman 2: In rapid-fire succession,
Flemmi described Bulger's
1451
01:23:57,907 --> 01:24:01,368
alleged role in a string of killings
during the 1970s
1452
01:24:01,536 --> 01:24:03,328
when both men were leaders
of the Winter Hill gang.
1453
01:24:03,496 --> 01:24:06,874
Boeri: Flemmi is under pressure,
they're talking about women.
1454
01:24:07,125 --> 01:24:11,503
Bulger is charged with strangling
Deborah Hussey and Debbie Davis.
1455
01:24:11,713 --> 01:24:15,007
The defense is trying to suggest
in fact, it was Flemmi.
1456
01:24:15,258 --> 01:24:17,593
Woman: Hank Brennan grilled
the government witness
1457
01:24:17,761 --> 01:24:21,597
on his sexual relationship with his
then girlfriend's teenage daughter
1458
01:24:21,765 --> 01:24:22,556
Deborah Hussey.
1459
01:24:22,682 --> 01:24:25,726
Woman 2: Flemmi said Deborah Hussey
turned into a drug user
1460
01:24:25,894 --> 01:24:28,145
and an embarrassment,
so they had to kill her.
1461
01:24:29,230 --> 01:24:32,608
Man: At Bulger's trial Friday,
Flemmi said Bulger murdered
1462
01:24:32,776 --> 01:24:35,819
Flemmi's girlfriend Deborah Davis
after the two men decided
1463
01:24:35,945 --> 01:24:37,321
she knew too much.
1464
01:24:37,489 --> 01:24:40,574
Woman: Flemmi claims Bulger
decided Davis had to be killed.
1465
01:24:40,742 --> 01:24:44,328
"I couldn't do it," Flemmi testified.
He said Bulger said,
1466
01:24:44,496 --> 01:24:47,372
"I'll take care of it, I'll do it. "
He grabbed her around the throat,
1467
01:24:47,540 --> 01:24:49,500
and strangled her.
1468
01:24:50,460 --> 01:24:55,506
Davis: My sister, Debbie, she dated
Steve Flemmi for over nine years.
1469
01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:58,550
He gave her cars,
1470
01:24:58,676 --> 01:25:02,137
apartments, furniture, jewelry,
1471
01:25:02,305 --> 01:25:04,890
but he would never give her cash.
1472
01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:08,519
You know, he would give her
five, 10 bucks a day, and...
1473
01:25:08,686 --> 01:25:09,937
Cheap prick.
1474
01:25:10,396 --> 01:25:12,439
She loved him, she did love him.
1475
01:25:12,607 --> 01:25:16,276
But at one point she wanted to
get married, she wanted kids.
1476
01:25:16,444 --> 01:25:21,240
My sister wanted kids, and it was
just a rocky road from then on.
1477
01:25:22,033 --> 01:25:24,785
She said, "I'm leaving him,
I'm leaving Steve. "
1478
01:25:24,953 --> 01:25:30,582
And I think Whitey
would've taken that as a threat.
1479
01:25:30,708 --> 01:25:33,460
You know, her taking secrets
or whatever with her.
1480
01:25:33,545 --> 01:25:36,255
Man: Flemmi became more
and more defensive,
1481
01:25:36,381 --> 01:25:38,423
and more and more resistant
to the questions
1482
01:25:38,591 --> 01:25:41,385
as Hank Brennan just cut into him.
1483
01:25:41,511 --> 01:25:43,971
Brennan: Were you combining the two
different versions in your testimony
1484
01:25:44,139 --> 01:25:47,724
in front of this jury to make amends
for your inconsistencies, Mr. Flemmi?
1485
01:25:47,851 --> 01:25:50,144
Flemmi: No, it was just probably
an inadvertent mistake on my part.
1486
01:25:50,311 --> 01:25:52,354
Brennan: Another inadvertent mistake
on this case?
1487
01:25:52,522 --> 01:25:54,773
Man: Flemmi is a well-rehearsed
witness now
1488
01:25:54,941 --> 01:25:58,026
because he's testified in three trials
and three civil proceedings.
1489
01:25:58,111 --> 01:26:02,990
In one court he says that Bulger
strangled her with a rope.
1490
01:26:03,199 --> 01:26:07,077
In another proceeding he said
he strangled her with his hands.
1491
01:26:07,245 --> 01:26:10,789
And then, in a third proceeding,
he said he thought that Bulger
1492
01:26:10,957 --> 01:26:12,583
had her in a headlock.
1493
01:26:12,750 --> 01:26:15,210
So, at the end of the day,
the inconsistencies, yes,
1494
01:26:15,378 --> 01:26:17,921
they're there, but do they
stop Bulger from being convicted?
1495
01:26:18,089 --> 01:26:22,843
It certainly does not look like
that is significant enough to do that.
1496
01:26:24,637 --> 01:26:28,307
Carney: Two of the charges against
you, Jim, are that you were involved
1497
01:26:28,558 --> 01:26:32,853
in the murder of
Deborah Hussey and Debbie Davis.
1498
01:26:33,021 --> 01:26:35,772
Did you have any involvement
in those two cases at all?
1499
01:26:35,940 --> 01:26:39,776
Bulger: No way. Those were
Stevie's girlfriends. That's his problem.
1500
01:26:39,986 --> 01:26:42,654
It had nothing
to do with me, nothing.
1501
01:26:42,822 --> 01:26:47,034
Carney: Do you feel he was fully capable
of committing these by himself?
1502
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:51,330
Bulger: Christ. When one of the guys
asked him something about a murder,
1503
01:26:51,497 --> 01:26:54,708
he says, well, he's been involved
in so fucking many murders
1504
01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:58,003
he has to say to the guy
"Well, show me the list. "
1505
01:26:58,129 --> 01:27:01,590
He needed a list to show him
what murder you're talking about.
1506
01:27:01,758 --> 01:27:06,053
I mean, this guy he is...
I think he's insane, myself, Stevie.
1507
01:27:06,262 --> 01:27:08,889
In the court he's glaring at me
and I'm looking at him thinking,
1508
01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:11,600
"Christ, Stevie, you're looking at me.
I never said a word against you.
1509
01:27:11,726 --> 01:27:14,311
I'm the injured party. "
1510
01:27:14,437 --> 01:27:18,190
But he was like a puppet
for Wyshak, you know.
1511
01:27:19,567 --> 01:27:23,737
Cullen: Whitey Bulger cannot have people
think he murdered those two women.
1512
01:27:23,863 --> 01:27:26,156
And he cannot have people
think he was an informant.
1513
01:27:26,324 --> 01:27:28,116
This is not about getting acquitted,
1514
01:27:28,243 --> 01:27:32,913
this is about changing the narrative
back to the one he spent years cultivating.
1515
01:27:33,039 --> 01:27:35,999
And that narrative
is he is a good bad guy.
1516
01:27:36,167 --> 01:27:40,545
He is a gangster with scruples.
He is a criminal with standards.
1517
01:27:40,713 --> 01:27:44,341
And gangsters with scruples
do not murder women
1518
01:27:44,467 --> 01:27:46,635
and bury them in shallow graves.
1519
01:27:46,803 --> 01:27:50,222
And criminals with standards
don't turn on their friends.
1520
01:27:51,849 --> 01:27:54,685
Woman: Today could end up being
an extremely interesting day
1521
01:27:54,894 --> 01:27:56,061
at the trial of James Whitey Bulger.
1522
01:27:56,187 --> 01:27:59,439
Woman 2: The big question is whether
or not Whitey himself will take the stand.
1523
01:27:59,607 --> 01:28:01,650
Man: Will James Whitey Bulger
take the stand?
1524
01:28:01,818 --> 01:28:04,027
Everybody's waiting on bated breath
to find out.
1525
01:28:04,195 --> 01:28:06,154
Man 2: My prediction
is he will testify.
1526
01:28:06,406 --> 01:28:08,532
He looks so bad if he doesn't.
1527
01:28:08,700 --> 01:28:10,867
Today's a big day
at the end of the case,
1528
01:28:11,035 --> 01:28:13,912
and I want to let him know that
we're with him and behind him
1529
01:28:13,997 --> 01:28:16,373
no matter what decision he makes.
If he wants to testify,
1530
01:28:16,541 --> 01:28:19,251
then we're 100 percent behind it.
1531
01:28:19,419 --> 01:28:22,087
If he doesn't, then I
totally understand as well.
1532
01:28:22,255 --> 01:28:26,800
Boeri: The defense was hoping
to present a defense of immunity,
1533
01:28:26,968 --> 01:28:31,471
that Bulger had been given immunity
by the former US Attorney.
1534
01:28:31,597 --> 01:28:34,349
But before the trial
they got the answer from this judge.
1535
01:28:34,434 --> 01:28:37,185
No, they couldn't, they were
stripped of that defense.
1536
01:28:37,353 --> 01:28:42,316
It's an interesting argument,
but it is somewhat convenient
1537
01:28:42,483 --> 01:28:46,528
to make the argument because
Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan is dead.
1538
01:28:47,947 --> 01:28:53,243
And there is no written evidence
that we've seen.
1539
01:28:53,411 --> 01:28:56,705
Man: In courtroom 11,
a moment of high drama.
1540
01:28:56,873 --> 01:28:59,499
Whitey's lawyer stood up and said,
"The defense rests. "
1541
01:28:59,667 --> 01:29:01,793
Woman: Carney says Bulger
will not take the stand.
1542
01:29:01,961 --> 01:29:05,380
Man 2: When the judge asked if he
made that choice voluntarily,
1543
01:29:05,548 --> 01:29:06,965
he stunned everyone.
1544
01:29:07,133 --> 01:29:09,384
Man 3: "I'm making the choice
involuntarily," Bulger said.
1545
01:29:09,552 --> 01:29:12,012
Woman: Because I feel that I've
been choked off from having
1546
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:14,973
an opportunity to give
an adequate defense and explain
1547
01:29:15,141 --> 01:29:18,143
about my conversation and agreement
with Jeremiah O'Sullivan.
1548
01:29:18,311 --> 01:29:21,480
Man 4: For my protection of his life,
in return he promised
1549
01:29:21,773 --> 01:29:22,898
to give me immunity. "
1550
01:29:23,066 --> 01:29:26,777
Woman: And as Judge Casper said,
she already ruled Bulger's immunity claim
1551
01:29:26,986 --> 01:29:29,112
was inadmissible,
he said defiantly,
1552
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:31,907
Man 5: "As far as I'm concerned,
I didn't get a fair trial
1553
01:29:32,075 --> 01:29:33,784
and this is a sham. "
1554
01:29:33,951 --> 01:29:35,827
Man 6: "And do what youse
want with me.
1555
01:29:35,995 --> 01:29:37,704
That's it.
That's my final word. "
1556
01:29:37,872 --> 01:29:41,291
Woman: At that point,
Patricia Donahue rose from her seat,
1557
01:29:41,376 --> 01:29:43,877
and yelled, "You're a coward. "
1558
01:29:44,504 --> 01:29:49,132
I yelled out, "You're a coward,"
because that's what he is.
1559
01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:52,928
This man first claims
that he has immunity,
1560
01:29:53,012 --> 01:29:56,223
which he thinks gives him the right
to kill all these people.
1561
01:29:56,432 --> 01:29:59,810
And now he blames an unfair trial
1562
01:30:00,103 --> 01:30:03,772
on the Department of Justice.
1563
01:30:04,524 --> 01:30:07,484
Yet he won't get
on the stand and tell all.
1564
01:30:07,652 --> 01:30:10,028
If you think that the government
has done wrong by you,
1565
01:30:10,196 --> 01:30:12,906
then get up there and talk about it.
1566
01:30:12,990 --> 01:30:14,282
No comments.
1567
01:30:14,450 --> 01:30:17,285
- How do you feel about your chances?
- No comment.
1568
01:30:17,453 --> 01:30:20,831
Kelly: At the end of the day,
Bulger's immunity claim
1569
01:30:20,998 --> 01:30:24,251
was a ridiculous claim and when
he was given the chance to present it,
1570
01:30:24,585 --> 01:30:30,549
he didn't. His immunity claims were
part of his game of let's pretend.
1571
01:30:30,883 --> 01:30:35,804
Let's pretend I'm going to testify.
Let's pretend I have a license to kill.
1572
01:30:35,930 --> 01:30:38,974
Let's pretend I'm not an informant.
1573
01:30:41,686 --> 01:30:44,396
Brennan: So many people
have the opinion that,
1574
01:30:44,522 --> 01:30:47,232
the idea of whether he was an informant
or not is irrelevant,
1575
01:30:47,358 --> 01:30:50,694
and yet this is the central issue
in this case.
1576
01:30:50,820 --> 01:30:53,363
The reason why the informant status
is important is for a couple of reasons.
1577
01:30:53,573 --> 01:30:56,908
One, the government has an impression
to try and create for the public,
1578
01:30:57,076 --> 01:31:01,204
they want to present a theory
of minimal amount of corruption
1579
01:31:01,372 --> 01:31:05,375
that is quarantined with John Connolly,
based on a rogue agent theory
1580
01:31:05,543 --> 01:31:10,964
and an improper handler who formed
a relationship with James Bulger.
1581
01:31:11,132 --> 01:31:12,841
That's what they've been
trying to do for decades
1582
01:31:12,967 --> 01:31:15,635
in every litigation they've had.
It's not true.
1583
01:31:15,845 --> 01:31:18,972
The truth is that James Bulger
was not an informant.
1584
01:31:19,182 --> 01:31:21,933
And the reason why it's dangerous
for the Department of Justice
1585
01:31:22,101 --> 01:31:24,352
to recognize the fact
that he wasn't an informant
1586
01:31:24,562 --> 01:31:28,857
is that if Mr. Bulger was just paying
a dozen people on the FBl,
1587
01:31:28,983 --> 01:31:31,902
as he was, and headquarters
didn't do anything about it,
1588
01:31:32,028 --> 01:31:34,571
and the supervision wasn't there,
and they didn't do the yearly reports,
1589
01:31:34,697 --> 01:31:37,449
they didn't do the yearly reviews,
it then calls into question
1590
01:31:37,533 --> 01:31:39,993
all the affidavits that he's on.
It calls into question
1591
01:31:40,203 --> 01:31:43,705
all the convictions they had.
Think about the implications.
1592
01:31:43,873 --> 01:31:46,124
Think about what happened
in the 1980s.
1593
01:31:46,292 --> 01:31:50,629
The crown jewel of the Department
of Justice was to get the Italian Mafia.
1594
01:31:50,755 --> 01:31:54,841
They wanted to infiltrate
the headquarters of the Angiulo's
1595
01:31:54,967 --> 01:31:57,886
on Prince Street in the north end.
They needed affidavits,
1596
01:31:58,054 --> 01:32:00,931
And what did they do?
They used James Bulger's name
1597
01:32:01,057 --> 01:32:03,683
even though we now know that he
didn't give them any information.
1598
01:32:03,768 --> 01:32:07,687
Their own witnesses will admit that he
was simply added on to search warrants
1599
01:32:07,772 --> 01:32:10,774
and affidavits as a courtesy
to John Connolly.
1600
01:32:10,942 --> 01:32:12,859
So what would happen when
the federal government admits
1601
01:32:12,985 --> 01:32:15,070
that he wasn't part
of these search warrants?
1602
01:32:15,279 --> 01:32:19,366
Every attorney who represented every
mobster would sue the federal government.
1603
01:32:19,492 --> 01:32:23,161
They lose all their convictions,
they lose all the jail time,
1604
01:32:23,329 --> 01:32:26,540
and all the sentences.
All these accolades
1605
01:32:26,624 --> 01:32:29,626
that attorneys and lawyers
and FBl agents earned,
1606
01:32:29,752 --> 01:32:32,462
their reputations they earned,
would be gone.
1607
01:32:32,547 --> 01:32:36,883
They're not going to give that up,
and probably most importantly,
1608
01:32:37,009 --> 01:32:39,010
is the civil liability
to the families.
1609
01:32:39,220 --> 01:32:42,055
That's why you have this
resounding unrest with the
1610
01:32:42,223 --> 01:32:45,016
with the families.
They've lost loved ones
1611
01:32:45,142 --> 01:32:49,187
and at some point there has to be closure.
They are entitled to closure as citizens.
1612
01:32:49,355 --> 01:32:51,815
This government will give them
no closure because they have
1613
01:32:51,983 --> 01:32:54,734
this pretense they have to keep for
their own image that James Bulger
1614
01:32:54,902 --> 01:32:56,987
is an informant rather
than saying we sanctioned this,
1615
01:32:57,154 --> 01:33:00,031
not just with James Bulger,
we sanctioned organized crime figures
1616
01:33:00,199 --> 01:33:02,826
to go out and kill.
And we protected them
1617
01:33:03,035 --> 01:33:05,287
and we did it before, we did it here,
and we're going to do it again,
1618
01:33:05,413 --> 01:33:07,664
we have done it again.
They can't admit that.
1619
01:33:07,832 --> 01:33:10,375
So these families suffer over
and over and over again
1620
01:33:10,459 --> 01:33:13,837
with never getting the answer.
Are they going to overturn convictions
1621
01:33:14,005 --> 01:33:16,506
and let everybody go?
Are they going to be civilly liable
1622
01:33:16,674 --> 01:33:19,217
for their lies? Are they going to
prosecute themselves?
1623
01:33:19,510 --> 01:33:23,388
It's never going to happen.
So he has to be an informant.
1624
01:33:31,355 --> 01:33:36,192
Woman: Prosecutors and defense attorneys
for Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger
1625
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:39,446
get their last chances today
to try to persuade jurors
1626
01:33:39,655 --> 01:33:42,198
in Bulger's murder
and racketeering trial.
1627
01:33:42,366 --> 01:33:44,784
WBUR's David Boeri joins us
this morning. Good morning.
1628
01:33:44,952 --> 01:33:45,702
Good morning, Deb.
1629
01:33:45,870 --> 01:33:50,040
Okay, now both sides get three hours
to sum up their cases.
1630
01:33:50,207 --> 01:33:51,458
What are they going to do
with all that time?
1631
01:33:51,626 --> 01:33:54,336
An extraordinary amount
of time, that's for sure.
1632
01:33:54,503 --> 01:33:57,547
And, as a matter of fact, the government
said it needed more time.
1633
01:33:58,591 --> 01:34:02,010
Wyshak: James Bulger is one of
the most vicious, violent,
1634
01:34:02,219 --> 01:34:05,555
and calculating criminals ever to
walk the streets of Boston.
1635
01:34:05,723 --> 01:34:10,185
It doesn't matter whether or not
Mr. Bulger was an FBl informant.
1636
01:34:10,394 --> 01:34:14,481
Whether he's an FBl informant or not,
he's guilty of murder.
1637
01:34:14,649 --> 01:34:16,650
Carney: There are three witnesses
to the murders,
1638
01:34:16,734 --> 01:34:19,194
Martorano, Weeks, Flemmi.
1639
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:22,405
What I submit to you is
the critical issue in this case,
1640
01:34:22,573 --> 01:34:25,950
whether you can believe
Martorano, Weeks, and Flemmi
1641
01:34:26,118 --> 01:34:28,495
beyond a reasonable doubt.
1642
01:34:28,663 --> 01:34:32,332
Wyshak: This trial is not about
whether or not the FBl in Boston
1643
01:34:32,500 --> 01:34:35,960
was a mess. It's not a referendum
on whether or not Kevin Weeks
1644
01:34:36,212 --> 01:34:39,964
and John Martorano should be spending
the rest of their lives in jail.
1645
01:34:40,091 --> 01:34:43,093
It's about whether or not
the defendant is guilty of the crimes
1646
01:34:43,260 --> 01:34:46,179
charged in the indictment.
He's the one on trial here,
1647
01:34:46,347 --> 01:34:50,350
not the government,
not the FBl, James Bulger.
1648
01:34:50,518 --> 01:34:53,603
Brennan: We think about our
government as this institution,
1649
01:34:53,729 --> 01:34:57,107
this faceless organization.
Our government is not them,
1650
01:34:57,274 --> 01:35:00,527
our government is us.
At what point as citizens do we say,
1651
01:35:00,736 --> 01:35:04,406
"You know what,
there has to be accountability?"
1652
01:35:04,573 --> 01:35:06,741
You tell them that.
1653
01:35:09,745 --> 01:35:14,582
Boeri: I've been on this story
for so long, and I've never seen
1654
01:35:14,709 --> 01:35:17,627
such depravity in a courtroom.
1655
01:35:17,837 --> 01:35:22,882
We have a situation where
an institution of the government
1656
01:35:23,050 --> 01:35:27,470
decided that in order
to achieve a goal,
1657
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:30,724
which was questionable at best,
they decided who was going to live,
1658
01:35:30,933 --> 01:35:32,976
and they decided
who was going to die.
1659
01:35:33,102 --> 01:35:37,772
And they empowered those people
that were carrying out terror,
1660
01:35:37,940 --> 01:35:40,692
they empowered them,
they gave them the run of the city.
1661
01:35:40,860 --> 01:35:43,903
That was lawlessness
by the government.
1662
01:35:44,113 --> 01:35:46,698
That is what we can never forget,
1663
01:35:46,949 --> 01:35:48,783
and that's why...
1664
01:35:51,954 --> 01:35:56,040
That's why I'm proud
to have done this story.
1665
01:35:58,127 --> 01:36:01,379
Because it's just, it's something
you can't forget.
1666
01:36:01,547 --> 01:36:03,965
And memory is really important.
1667
01:36:04,133 --> 01:36:06,593
You know, memory is a political act,
and I think as reporters
1668
01:36:06,802 --> 01:36:09,846
you got to keep the memory,
even if other people aren't.
1669
01:36:15,019 --> 01:36:18,855
Woman: The United States
v. James J. Bulger is over.
1670
01:36:19,023 --> 01:36:20,982
Man: This trial's been going on
for two months.
1671
01:36:21,150 --> 01:36:22,859
This jury has been deliberating
the last five days.
1672
01:36:23,068 --> 01:36:26,279
Woman: The jury has made a decision
in this case and we are waiting
1673
01:36:26,447 --> 01:36:28,490
to see exactly what it is.
1674
01:36:28,574 --> 01:36:32,952
Man: Whitey Bulger faces possible
maximum life in prison,
1675
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:36,539
we say the caveat, this man
is 83 years of age.
1676
01:36:36,707 --> 01:36:38,583
Woman 2: Bulger is standing right now
in the courtroom
1677
01:36:38,751 --> 01:36:43,963
as he hears the words to count one
for racketeering conspiracy: guilty.
1678
01:36:44,048 --> 01:36:47,467
Woman 3: For count two, we're just
waiting here for word out of the courtroom,
1679
01:36:47,635 --> 01:36:50,929
that it is a guilty verdict as well
on count two.
1680
01:36:51,096 --> 01:36:53,556
Now within the second one
were all of these acts,
1681
01:36:53,682 --> 01:36:57,352
that include all of the acts of murder.
Racketeering act number one,
1682
01:36:57,520 --> 01:36:58,686
that was not proven.
1683
01:36:58,854 --> 01:37:02,482
Man: For racketeering act number two
we're hearing that is not proved.
1684
01:37:02,608 --> 01:37:04,442
Racketeering act number three,
not proved.
1685
01:37:04,610 --> 01:37:08,822
Number four, not proved.
Five, not proved.
1686
01:37:08,948 --> 01:37:10,907
Woman: Narcotics
distribution conspiracy.
1687
01:37:11,075 --> 01:37:12,200
Man 2: That is proved.
1688
01:37:12,368 --> 01:37:15,245
Woman: The extortion of Stephen
Stippo Rakes and Julie Rakes.
1689
01:37:15,412 --> 01:37:17,288
Man: We're waiting on this.
That is proved.
1690
01:37:17,456 --> 01:37:20,458
Man 2: The conspiracy to murder
Roger Wheeler: proved.
1691
01:37:20,626 --> 01:37:23,419
Man 3: The murder of John Callahan
is also proved.
1692
01:37:23,587 --> 01:37:26,339
Man 4: Next the murder
of Brian Halloran: proved.
1693
01:37:26,507 --> 01:37:28,091
Woman: Then we have the murder
of Michael Donahue.
1694
01:37:28,259 --> 01:37:29,467
Man: Proved.
1695
01:37:29,593 --> 01:37:30,802
Murder of Deborah Hussey.
1696
01:37:30,970 --> 01:37:32,262
Man 2: Proved.
1697
01:37:32,429 --> 01:37:34,180
Woman: The next one,
very important for Stephen Davis,
1698
01:37:34,348 --> 01:37:37,058
the murder of Deborah Davis,
no finding.
1699
01:37:38,727 --> 01:37:41,980
Man: Whitey Bulger was convicted
on 31 out of 32 counts
1700
01:37:42,106 --> 01:37:44,732
of racketeering, conspiracy,
murder, extortion,
1701
01:37:44,900 --> 01:37:46,025
and other charges.
1702
01:37:46,193 --> 01:37:48,528
Woman: But the jury found that
the government only proved
1703
01:37:48,654 --> 01:37:52,365
the murders of 11 of Bulger's
19 alleged victims.
1704
01:37:52,533 --> 01:37:55,660
Alright, let's just do
the jury convicted Bulger of...
1705
01:37:55,870 --> 01:37:58,538
It's 31, they acquitted him
of one count.
1706
01:37:58,706 --> 01:38:03,209
With the conviction of James Bulger,
we hope that we stand here today
1707
01:38:03,377 --> 01:38:06,087
to mark the end of an era
that was very ugly
1708
01:38:06,297 --> 01:38:08,214
in Boston's history.
1709
01:38:08,382 --> 01:38:11,968
English: As theater,
the trial delivered, but ultimately
1710
01:38:12,136 --> 01:38:15,805
it was a disappointment to me.
Those of us journalists,
1711
01:38:15,890 --> 01:38:20,518
interested parties who've been following
the Bulger story for decades,
1712
01:38:20,686 --> 01:38:24,939
we kind of hoped this trial
would be a final accounting
1713
01:38:25,190 --> 01:38:28,776
of the Bulger era, of all the things
that made Bulger possible.
1714
01:38:28,944 --> 01:38:31,946
I think it fell far short in that regard.
1715
01:38:32,114 --> 01:38:35,825
This case let people know that
no matter how politically connected
1716
01:38:36,076 --> 01:38:40,914
one is, or how one may have
ins with law enforcement,
1717
01:38:41,081 --> 01:38:44,375
it doesn't stop us
from prosecuting you.
1718
01:38:44,543 --> 01:38:48,880
And, in fact, Bulger's reign of terror
was only brought to an end
1719
01:38:49,089 --> 01:38:53,343
because they were honest members
of law enforcement who persisted,
1720
01:38:53,469 --> 01:38:57,180
and who were not deterred by less
than honest members of law enforcement.
1721
01:38:57,264 --> 01:39:02,769
And as a result, an awful and evil man
is going to jail for the rest of his life.
1722
01:39:05,189 --> 01:39:08,775
Bulger: Jesus Christ almighty,
this is baloney
1723
01:39:08,901 --> 01:39:13,404
and that's why I says "This is a sham trial".
I think the feds have the green light,
1724
01:39:13,572 --> 01:39:16,824
nobody ever checks on them,
the media is not there,
1725
01:39:16,992 --> 01:39:19,577
like they would like the public
to believe they are.
1726
01:39:19,745 --> 01:39:24,457
These reporters are hand fed stuff from
FBl agents, then they write crime stories.
1727
01:39:24,625 --> 01:39:27,752
They write books and everything else,
they're hand and fist with them.
1728
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:30,213
The one thing they all know is it works.
1729
01:39:30,339 --> 01:39:34,759
It works, it gets convictions.
There's no lessons learned.
1730
01:39:34,927 --> 01:39:37,929
You can't get a fair trial,
you can't get a fair hearing.
1731
01:39:38,097 --> 01:39:42,600
This system here, it isn't gonna change,
it isn't gonna change,
1732
01:39:42,810 --> 01:39:44,352
it'll never change.
1733
01:39:46,397 --> 01:39:50,733
Whitey Bulger is a vicious,
venal murderer.
1734
01:39:50,901 --> 01:39:56,823
But he was enabled by the FBl.
And the FBl was enabled
1735
01:39:56,949 --> 01:40:00,493
by the Justice Department.
And to this day, the Justice Department,
1736
01:40:00,619 --> 01:40:05,039
as far as I'm concerned, was engaged
in a cover-up to minimize the extent
1737
01:40:05,207 --> 01:40:08,084
of FBl corruption.
There were a dozen guys
1738
01:40:08,252 --> 01:40:10,837
you could have made cases against.
The idea that John Connolly
1739
01:40:11,046 --> 01:40:13,840
is the only guy convicted in this,
is a joke.
1740
01:40:16,093 --> 01:40:20,179
To know that this is how you're
treated as an American citizen,
1741
01:40:20,305 --> 01:40:26,185
when FBl agents protect killers and
come and take your loved one's life.
1742
01:40:27,688 --> 01:40:30,023
You could be sitting here.
1743
01:40:30,065 --> 01:40:32,400
Don't you want to know
what really went on?
1744
01:40:32,568 --> 01:40:34,235
Why they really did it?
1745
01:40:35,988 --> 01:40:39,115
Weeks: If everybody told the truth,
everything would come together.
1746
01:40:39,241 --> 01:40:42,827
But everybody fashions things to
benefit themselves, which is,
1747
01:40:43,037 --> 01:40:46,039
which is natural, I guess.
But everybody is trying to
1748
01:40:46,165 --> 01:40:48,875
twist the story a little bit.
No one's really going to know the truth
1749
01:40:49,001 --> 01:40:52,003
until everybody starts telling the truth.
That's what it comes down to.
1750
01:40:52,129 --> 01:40:54,213
People are going to have to
come to their own conclusions.
1751
01:40:54,381 --> 01:40:56,007
You know, there's going to be
people out there that believe
1752
01:40:56,175 --> 01:40:58,092
that Jim Bulger was an informant.
There's going to be
1753
01:40:58,218 --> 01:41:00,178
people on the other side that
say he wasn't an informant.
1754
01:41:00,345 --> 01:41:02,638
People are going to say he
didn't murder women.
1755
01:41:02,806 --> 01:41:04,682
Other people will say
he did murder women.
1756
01:41:04,808 --> 01:41:06,976
So the true story
will never be known.
1757
01:41:11,732 --> 01:41:13,566
Today was a good day
for a lot of families,
1758
01:41:13,734 --> 01:41:16,527
but today also wasn't a good day
for a lot of families.
1759
01:41:16,695 --> 01:41:19,572
My heart goes out to them and I would
like to do a cheers for them,
1760
01:41:19,656 --> 01:41:20,865
and we will not forget you.
1761
01:41:22,159 --> 01:41:24,202
One person who
should be here,
1762
01:41:24,369 --> 01:41:26,788
how about we give a nice cheers
to Stevie Rakes.
1763
01:41:31,168 --> 01:41:33,211
Rakes: Yes,
I hold the FBl responsible.
1764
01:41:33,378 --> 01:41:37,006
Good God, they protected this man,
now, you know, years later we find out
1765
01:41:37,174 --> 01:41:39,550
everything that he's been doing
and getting away with it.
1766
01:41:39,718 --> 01:41:43,387
Listen, it takes a, it takes
a village to raise a child.
1767
01:41:43,555 --> 01:41:46,432
For all the destruction that this
Bulger and Flemmi have done,
1768
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,352
it would take a battalion
to cover it up.
1769
01:41:49,478 --> 01:41:51,604
So where are they all?
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