Whitey bulger biography

Born: September 3, 1929, Boston, Mass.
Died: October 30, 2018 in a federal prison in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia
Nicknames: Whitey, numerous aliases
Associates: Winter Hill Gang, Patriarca Family, the FBI

James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger was the boss of the largely Irish Mob in Boston from the 1970s through the 1990s.

His longevity and success in organized crime largely can be attributed to protection he received as a high-level FBI informant.

Bulger was notorious for his readiness to use violence and especially murder to achieve his criminal goals.

A “Southie,” or resident of the tough streets of South Boston, Bulger was attracted to street crime early in life, joining gangs and earning his first arrest at age 14, which sent him to the reformatory. Bulger’s brothers would go a very different direction.

One of them, William Bulger, would serve as a member of the Massachusetts Senate for 25 years and president of the University of Massachusetts for seven y