Whitey Bulger's organized crime career had strong ties to Somerville

Justice has finally caught up with James “Whitey” Bulger, who rose from a Southie tough guy to Boston’s most notorious mobster – by way of Winter Hill in Somerville. After more than 16 years on the lam, Bulger, an FBI informant who was protected from arrest for years by corrupt FBI agents, was arrested last Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., where he lived with his girlfriend Catherine Greig ...

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Source: Somerville Journal

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