Whitey Bulger America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him To Justice (52 page)

66 Judy Meredith, interview with the
Boston Globe
Spotlight Team, 1988.

67 Andrew P. Marinak (Catholic chaplain), letter, US Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1964.

68 “Report of Interview or Telephone Call” memo, Inmate Case File, the National Archives at San Bruno, March 13, 1964.

69 Progress Report, Inmate Case File, the National Archives at San Bruno, April 1964.

70 Memo, US Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Inmate Case File, the National Archives at San Bruno, May 27, 1964.

Chapter 4. Becoming Untouchable

1 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003. Flemmi told investigators that Buddy McLean told him about the origins of the gang war and why he shot Bernie McLaughlin in broad daylight.

2 Shelley Murphy, “Sidekick’s Double-Dealing Career Worthy of Master Spy,”
Boston Globe
, July 20, 1998.

3 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

4 While there is a record of Flemmi’s army serial number and his discharge at the rank of corporal, his full military records are believed to have been destroyed in a 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, according to NPRC officials. Flemmi gave an account of his military service to law enforcement officials in October 2003, and it has been referred to in various court proceedings. In addition, the authors have interviewed some of Flemmi’s war buddies, one of whom, James Lang, served with Flemmi in the 187th Airborne from 1951 to 1954.

5 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

6 Frank Salemme, testimony before the US House Committee on Government Reform, 2003.

7 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

8 Gerard O’Neill, Dick Lehr, Shelley Murphy, and Mitchell Zuckoff, the
Boston Globe
Spotlight Team report, 1998. The John Connolly interviews were conducted by Murphy.

9 William Bulger,
While the Music Lasts
, 276. Will McDonough, the
Boston Globe
sportswriter and longtime Bulger family friend, claimed in a 2002 letter to US District Court Judge Joseph Tauro that he arranged the courthouse job for Whitey.

10 Ann McCarthy, interview with the
Boston Globe
Spotlight Team, 1988.

11 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

12 US Probation Department report, 1969.

13 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

14 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

15 Ibid.

16 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012. Weeks said Whitey gave him a detailed account of shooting Donald McGonagle by mistake. Flemmi gave a similar account to law enforcement officials during his October 2003 debriefing.

17 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

18 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

19 Whitey Bulger, letter to Richard Sunday, March 23, 2012.

20 Ray Richard, “Killeen Was on Gangland ‘Hit List’ for Two Years, Hub Police Aide Says,”
Boston Globe
, May 16, 1972.

21 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

22 Howie Winter, interview with the authors, August 2012.

23 Ibid.

24 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

25 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

26 Lindsey Cyr, interview with former
Boston Globe
staffer Stephen Kurkjian and Shelley Murphy, September 2009.

27 Ibid.

28 Stephen Kurkjian and Shelley Murphy, “Whitey Bulger Was His Dad,”
Boston Globe
, January 24, 2010.

29 Ibid.

30 Howie Carr,
Hitman:
The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano, Whitey Bulger’s Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld
(New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2011), 201.

31 Kurkjian and Murphy, “Whitey Bulger Was His Dad,”
Boston Globe
, January 24, 2010.

32 Teresa Stanley, interview with the authors, April 1998, September 2009, and January 2012. Stanley died August 16, 2012, at the age of seventy-one.

Chapter 5. Just Don’t Clip Anyone

1 Francis Dooher (a cousin of John Connolly’s), in a letter in support of leniency to Judge Joseph Tauro, June 2002.

2 FBI memo, September 19, 1968.

3 Whitey Bulger’s FBI informant file.

4 In his 661-page ruling in 1999, Judge Mark Wolf found that Flemmi had let Paul Rico and Dennis Condon know that he and Salemme were in New York while on the lam. Wolf found that Condon contacted John Connolly in New York and sent him “general information and sent him several photographs” of Salemme before Connolly spotted Salemme on the street and arrested him. “Both Flemmi and Condon deny that Flemmi provided the FBI with information that led to Salemme’s arrest,” Wolf wrote. “In the context of all the credible evidence in this case, it appears that this claim is not correct.”

5 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

6 John Connolly, interview with the authors, September 1997.

7 Howie Winter, interview with the authors, August 2012.

8 Ibid.

9 Gerard O’Neill, Dick Lehr, Shelley Murphy, and Mitchell Zuckoff,
Boston Globe
Spotlight report, 1998. The John Connolly interviews were conducted by Murphy.

10 Ibid.

11 John Connolly, interview with the authors, February 1998.

12 Ibid.

13 John Martorano, testimony in US District Court, Boston, at Connolly’s racketeering trial, May 12, 2002. Bill Bulger testified before the US House Committee on Government Reform in June 2003 that he never asked Connolly to protect Whitey.

14 John Connolly, interviews with the authors, February 1998.

15 Stephen Flemmi, testifying before Judge Mark L. Wolf in US District Court, Boston, August 20, 1998.

16 The account of Whitey Bulger and John Connolly’s encounter on Wollaston Beach was detailed in the
Boston Globe
Spotlight report in July 1998 by Gerard O’Neill, Dick Lehr, Shelley Murphy, and Mitchell Zuckoff. The series of interviews with Connolly were done by Murphy.

17 Kevin Weeks, January 2012, and Patrick Nee, February 2012, interviews with the authors.

18 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

19 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

20 Patrick Nee, February 2012, and Howie Winter, August 2012, interviews with the authors.

21 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

22 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

23 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

24 Patrick Nee, February 2012, and Kevin Weeks, January 2012, interviews with the authors.

25 The account of the murder of Tommy King is based on the authors’ interviews with Kevin Weeks, January 2012, and Patrick Nee, February 2012, and the testimony at various trials by Steve Flemmi and John Martorano.

26 Whitey Bulger’s FBI informant file.

Chapter 6. Southie Is His Hometown

1 The account of Whitey Bulger’s torching of the John F. Kennedy birthplace is based on author interviews in 2012 with Patrick Nee, who declined Whitey’s invitation to join him that night, and Kevin Weeks, who listened to Whitey’s story about what happened that night. It is also based on two separate law enforcement reports about the arson attack: a Brookline Police report, September 8, 1975, which includes interviews with neighbors who reported seeing Whitey’s car, and a September 9, 1975, report by state fire marshal Joseph Sneider.

2 Brookline Police report, September 8, 1975.

3 Patrick Nee, February 2012, and Kevin Weeks, January 2012, interviews with the authors.

4 Brookline Police report, September 8, 1975.

5 Ibid.

6 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

7 US Census, 1970.

8 Louis P. Masur,
The Soiling of Old Glory
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2008), 32–40.

9 Ibid., 33.

10 Bulger,
While the Music Lasts
, 120.

11 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

12 Whitey Bulger, letter to Richard Sunday, March 2012.

13 In interviews with the authors both Kevin Weeks, January 2012, and Patrick Nee, February 2012, said that they believed Whitey was racist, based on their interactions with him over the years and the language he used. In a July 6, 2011, interview with the FBI, Joshua Bond, the property manager at the building in Santa Monica where Whitey lived, said that Whitey “was definitely racist.”

14 Patrick Nee, February 2012, and Kevin Weeks, January 2012, interviews with the authors.

15 Joseph Keough, interview with the authors, April 2001.

16 Ibid.

17 Ione Malloy,
Southie Won’t Go
(Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 5.

18 Jim Miara, interview with the authors, May 2012.

19 Robert diGrazia, interview with the
Boston Globe
Spotlight Team, 1988.

20 Ibid.

21 Bulger,
While the Music Lasts
, 165.

22 Christopher Lydon, “Kevin White and the Boston He Imagined,” Radio Open Source, February 1, 2012.

23 Ibid.

24 William M. Bulger, interview with the
Boston Globe
Spotlight Team, 1988.

25 Kevin Weeks, Whitey’s longtime associate, was among those who held that view. He was working as security aide at South Boston High School when Michael Faith was stabbed and helped detain his attacker.

26 Bulger,
While the Music Lasts
, 147.

27 Whitey Bulger, letter to Richard Sunday, April 2012.

28
Boston Globe
, “Shots Fired at Globe Plant,” October 8, 1974.

29 Whitey Bulger, letter to Richard Sunday, March 2012.

30 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

31 Whitey Bulger, letter to Richard Sunday, April 2012.

32 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

33 Ibid.

34 Ibid.

35 Kevin Weeks, January 2012, and Patrick Nee, February 2012, interviews with the authors.

36 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

37 David S. Nelson, interview with the
Boston Globe
, 1988.

38 Joe Oteri, interview with the authors, January 2012.

39 The account of Brian Wallace’s long car ride and conversation with Whitey Bulger is based on an interview with Wallace by the authors, March 2012.

40 Helen Drinan, interview with the authors, March 2012.

Chapter 7. A Beautiful Friendship

1 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid., 53–54.

5 Ibid., 2.

6 Ibid., 13.

7 Stephen Flemmi, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, September 22, 2008.

8 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 54.

9 Stephen Flemmi, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, September 24, 2004.

10 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 5.

11 Ibid., 54.

12 Ibid., 54–55.

13 John Connolly, interview with the authors, March 1998.

14 Stephen Flemmi, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, 2008.

15 The FBI informant files of Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi.

16 John Connolly, interview with the authors, June 1997.

17 John Connolly, interview with the authors, September 1997.

18 Carr,
Hitman
, 74.

19 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 48.

20 Ibid., 57.

21 Jerome Sullivan, “Police Lured from Scene of Boxer’s Slaying,”
Boston Globe
, June 13, 1975.

22 James Ayres, “Ex-Boxer Shot to Death in Dorchester,”
Boston Globe
, June 13, 1975 (graphic photo by Bob Dean).

23 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 58.

24 John Martorano, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, September 17, 2008.

25 Ibid.

26 Ibid.

27 Howie Winter, interview with the authors, August 2012.

28 John Connolly, interview with the authors, September 1997.

29 John Martorano, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, September 17, 2008.

30 Sandra Castucci, testimony in US District Court in Boston on June 10, 2009, during a civil trial over her wrongful death suit against the government.

31 Tom Daly, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, October 2008.

32 Joe Oteri, interview with the authors, January 2012.

33 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 68.

34 This scene is based on testimony that John Morris gave in April 1998 in hearings before Judge Mark Wolf in US District Court, Boston, and on Morris’s testimony in 2002 in the John Connolly racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston. It is supplemented by testimony before Judge Wolf in 1998 by Stephen Flemmi and FBI agents Nick Gianturco, John Newton, and James Ring during pretrial hearings in the racketeering case against Flemmi, Whitey, John Martorano, Frank Salemme and Robert DeLuca.

35 Teresa Stanley, interviews with the authors, September 2009.

36 Margaret McCusker, letter to US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, June 4, 2012, before the sentencing of her twin sister, Catherine Greig.

37 Sally Jacobs, “The Long, Unlikely Journey of Cathy Greig,”
Boston Globe
, November 20, 2011.