Bulger Wants Sitdown With Wahlberg

Irish mobster Whitey Bulger has reached out to Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg as reported by Shelley Murphy for The Boston Globe:

Wahlberg, a Dorchester native, startled listeners during an interview Friday on The Hill-Man Morning Show on WAAF radio when he revealed that he'd been asked to a jailhouse meeting with Bulger. "He wants me to come down and visit," Wahlberg said on the show. "Maybe he'll give me the exclusive rights to tell his story. 'Cause he knows, you know, we can do it better than anybody else."

Bulger was on the lam for sixteen years after being tipped off to his impending indictment by dirty FBI agent John Connolly, and he is charged with 19 murders during his alleged reign of terror in Boston, MA.

No trial date has been set for the 82-year-old former Winter Hill Gang boss, and "the likelihood is that Bulger won't be facing a jury anytime soon" as reported by David Frank for WCVB:  "in fact, 2013 may be a stretch."

Meanwhile, former G-Man Robert Fitzpatrick is out with Betrayal which tells the story of how "Bulger used the FBI to get away with murder" as reported by Chuck Leddy for The Boston Globe:

Fitzpatrick says that the FBI's desire to eliminate the Italian mob clouded the judgment of many. While Connolly and others inside the bureau inflated the importance of the information Bulger passed on, Fitzpatrick, who actually arrested Mafia kingpin Gennaro Angiulo in a North End restaurant, repeatedly tried to argue that Bulger, who was clearly a public danger in his own right, had limited value as an FBI "asset." Fitzpatrick spent much of his time in the Boston office trying in vain to terminate the agency's relationship with Bulger, his efforts blocked by higher-ups who viewed him as a troublemaker.

Comments

[Clinton Fussell]

These FBI agents are nothing more than mobsters with badges. They selfishly wanted the glory of taking down the Italian Mob so bad that they let this Irish hoodlum do whatever he wanted (including murder) so long as he was passing along information. Well they got what they wanted.