James Joseph Bulger Jr. was an Irish-American organized crime boss and FBI informant. He led the Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. On August 12, Bulger was found guilty on 31 counts, including both racketeering charges, and was found to have been involved in eleven murders. On November 14, he received two consecutive life sentences plus five years for his crimes by U.S. Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida. He was transferred to several facilities in October 2018; first to the Federal Transfer Center in
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James Joseph Bulger Jr. was an Irish-American organized crime boss and FBI informant. He led the Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. He remained at large for sixteen years. After his arrest, federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on the grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates. Although adamantly denied by Bulger, the FBI admitted that he served as an informant for several years starting in 1975. On August 12, Bulger was found guilty on 31 counts, including both racketeering charges, and was found to have been involved in eleven murders. On November 14, he received two consecutive life sentences plus five years for his crimes by U.S. Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida. He was transferred to several facilities in October 2018; first to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma and then to the United States Penitentiaries, Hazelton, near Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. On October 30, 2018, within hours of his arrival at Hazelton. he was murdered by inmates in a prison riot. He is survived by his wife, two children, and a step-granddaughter. He died in prison on November 28, 2013. He had been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole, but was eligible for parole in 20 years if he served at least 15 years.
He has been serving his sentence since November 2013, when he was sentenced to 15 years for racketeering, money laundering, extortion and weapons charges, including complicity in nineteen murders. He will be buried in a plot of land near his family’s home in South Boston, Massachusetts. His wife, Catherine Greig, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity fraud in June 2012, receiving a sentence of eight years in prison. He also served time in prison for going absent without leave in 1950 and was later arrested by police in 1950 for going missing without leave. He spent his first prison term in Atlanta, Georgia, for armed robbery, assault, and armed robbery. In 1956, he served his first federal prison term at the federal Penitentary in Atlanta. In 1957, he was arrested for assault and robbery, sentenced to juvenile reformatory for these crimes, but he had not reformed and was released. In 1959, he joined the United. States Air Force. He served in the Air Force until 1961. In 1961, he married Jane Veronica \”Jean\” McCarthy, a first-generation Irish immigrant. The couple had three children, William Michael and John P. Bulger. The other Bulger children excelled at school; James Bulger became drawn into street life. He developed a reputation as a street fighter and thief and found more lucrative opportunities. In 1943, 14-year-old Bulger joined a street gang known as the \”Shamrocks\”
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