Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Page #10
Today she finally faced his alleged killer,
James Whitey Bulger.
Donahue:
It was Mother's Day, and Tommyhad just made his first Communion.
I was in the kitchen cooking.
A news bulletin came on the TV
about a gangland slaying.
I didn't pay any attention to it,
because I knew it didn't
concern me.
And I just so happened to look up
and see the car.
And I said, "I think that was his car."
I mean, I was hyperventilating,
I was, like, confused.
I'm thinking, "Oh my God,
where is he?
I need to be with him,
I don't want him to die alone,
I have so much stuff I want
to say to him," you know?
And, nobody came
until ten o'clock that night.
So when they took me
to the hospital finally,
he had already passed.
Within days of the killing, FBI agents,
they came to my house
and harassed me. Accused me of having
an affair with my husband's friend
that was staying with us
from out of town.
I mean, I was like," What?"
For months, they used to sit
outside my salon, you know.
They'd sit outside the house
and I'd say, "How you doing,
have you found out
any more information on my husband?"
"No, nothing yet."
And the whole time they knew.
And I was devastated
because I did not think
that the government was like that.
You know, you think you know them,
and you find out they're
not who you think they are.
Murphy:
Bulger and Flemmiare suspects,
now, not only in the Wheeler murder,
but in the Halloran
and Donahue murders.
And nothing happens. The FBI
decides to look for John Callahan,
"We need to question John Callahan,
he's the other guy
who was also implicated
in the murder of Roger Wheeler."
They're hunting for him to question him,
and then he's murdered.
Again, nothing happens.
The FBI in Boston,
who do they send out to question
Bulger and Flemmi?
John Connolly. Their handler.
Because we know he's objective, right?
The FBl,
they haven't been on our side
since the day they killed my father.
Took them four and a half hours
to come to my house to tell my mother,
my mother,
whether my father was dead or alive.
They covered up
the murder of my father,
helped pretty much set it up.
It's, it's, it's shameful, it's shameful.
worse than the Mafia.
They're the most organized
crime family on the planet,
who can do whatever they want,
change the laws when they want,
and they're not to be screwed with,
to be honest with you.
We've seen that first-hand.
Woman:
Tell us what it was liketo be on the stand today
and look into Whitey Bulger's eyes.
Well, I looked right at him,
but of course he wouldn't look at me,
so as far as I'm concerned,
he's a coward.
He can kill people and not look the
victims in the face, that's a coward.
That's a coward.
You've been saying you're getting
more answers from his defense team...
I am, I am.
And then Jay Carney comes up,
and he asks you questions
that are really meant
to benefit Whitey.
Does that put you
in a strange position?
The questions that Carney
was asking my mother,
those are questions the government
should be asking my mother.
Did you notice the government stood up
and blocked every question they asked.
They don't want us to know anything.
It was blunt, right there.
Carney was asking questions
to help us,
and we were getting blocked
by the prosecution.
Where do we go here, folks?
Kelly:
In the early 90s, when Fred and Ifirst started working on this case,
it was strange to us, to say the least,
that this individual, Bulger,
had been allowed to run amok
in the city of Boston for so long.
We suspected, as did many
other people in law enforcement,
that Bulger had some relationship
with the FBI
that was...
He was using to prevent
prosecution of himself.
It was in that atmosphere that we
began the case, and targeted him.
And we worked with Tom Foley,
also Tom Duffy from the state police,
who were very savvy investigators.
So what we decided to do was follow
the money, and we started targeting
a bottom line bookmaker
with some of the informants that we had.
We put up a bunch of wiretaps,
and we started climbing up
these bookmakers' organizations.
We went from low to mid,
up to the higher level bookmaker,
until we actually had the highest level,
where that bookmaker was doing
the hand-off to Bulger and Flemmi
as far as payments go.
It took Brian and I about
four or five years to get there.
By 1995, we had our first
racketeering indictment.
Back then, Fred took a lot of
hits over the years,
and we had the courage to go up
against the system, Brian Kelly too.
There was many, right inside the US
Attorney's office, that were in denial,
didn't want to see this
come forward. And they said,
"Well, we're going to wait, we'll do
a joint investigation with the FBI."
And I knew at that time
that this was another stall tactic.
And I told them that, I said,
"Okay, if that's the way
you want to go, but the state
police's position publicly
will be you had the opportunity to
indict him and you didn't indict him."
So, they went back and they had
another huddle with the US Attorney,
and they said, "Okay, the indictment,
we will indict him."
But they insisted that the FBI
participate in the arrest.
So state police targeted Flemmi.
The FBI said they'll take Bulger.
And then one night on January 5th,
we found Flemmi,
and we arrested him
on the streets of Boston.
And we arrested that same weekend,
John Martorano down in Florida.
And we notified the FBl,
"Okay, grab Bulger."
And, uh... that was the end of that.
They never had Bulger,
didn't know where he was.
And it was 16 years later before we
saw James Whitey Bulger again.
We expected that he was tipped
off, and we found out later that
that's what actually had happened.
One of the FBI agents in Boston
told John Connolly that
the indictments were coming down,
and he passed the information
along to Bulger.
After months of sitting in jail,
Stephen Flemmi realized the FBI
and John Connolly were not
coming to his rescue, and he
and he decided to out himself
and Bulger's FBI informants.
I'll never forget, when he
said he was an informant.
I went up to visit him the next day,
or a day later, I said to him,
I go, "Stevie, you're an informant,
you've been giving everybody up."
And he said to me,
with all the information
I've given them people."
I looked at him.
Now I'm like,
"Okay, you know,
what's his next step?"
You know, who's he got left
to give up?
And he looked at me, he said, "Well,
we never said anything about you."
So I was on the phone talking to him
through the glass.
I took the phone and hung it up,
and I stood up, and I looked at him.
I says, "You couldn't say anything
about me."
I says, "Everything I did, I did with you."
I says, "You couldn't give me up
Carney:
Did you have any ideathat Flemmi was an informant
until he revealed it
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