Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Page #14

Alright, let's just do

the jury convicted Bulger of...

It's 31, they acquitted him

of one count.

With the conviction of James Bulger,

we hope that we stand here today

to mark the end of an era

that was very ugly

in Boston's history.

English:
As theater,

the trial delivered, but ultimately

it was a disappointment to me.

Those of us journalists,

interested parties who've been following

the Bulger story for decades,

we kind of hoped this trial

would be a final accounting

of the Bulger era, of all the things

that made Bulger possible.

I think it fell far short in that regard.

This case let people know that

no matter how politically connected

one is, or how one may have

ins with law enforcement,

it doesn't stop us

from prosecuting you.

And, in fact, Bulger's reign of terror

was only brought to an end

because they were honest members

of law enforcement who persisted,

and who were not deterred by less

than honest members of law enforcement.

And as a result, an awful and evil man

is going to jail for the rest of his life.

Bulger:
Jesus Christ almighty,

this is baloney

and that's why I says "This is a sham trial."

I think the feds have the green light,

nobody ever checks on them,

the media is not there,

like they would like the public

to believe they are.

These reporters are hand fed stuff from

FBI agents, then they write crime stories.

They write books and everything else,

they're hand and fist with them.

The one thing they all know is it works.

It works, it gets convictions.

There's no lessons learned.

You can't get a fair trial,

you can't get a fair hearing.

This system here, it isn't gonna change,

it isn't gonna change,

it'll never change.

Whitey Bulger is a vicious,

venal murderer.

But he was enabled by the FBI.

And the FBI was enabled

by the Justice Department.

And to this day, the Justice Department,

as far as I'm concerned, was engaged

in a cover-up to minimize the extent

of FBI corruption.

There were a dozen guys

you could have made cases against.

The idea that John Connolly

is the only guy convicted in this,

is a joke.

To know that this is how you're

treated as an American citizen,

when FBI agents protect killers and

come and take your loved one's life.

You could be sitting here.

Don't you want to know

what really went on?

Why they really did it?

Weeks:
If everybody told the truth,

everything would come together.

But everybody fashions things to

benefit themselves, which is,

which is natural, I guess.

But everybody is trying to

twist the story a little bit.

No one's really going to know the truth

until everybody starts telling the truth.

That's what it comes down to.

People are going to have to

come to their own conclusions.

You know, there's going to be

people out there that believe

that Jim Bulger was an informant.

There's going to be

people on the other side that

say he wasn't an informant.

People are going to say he

didn't murder women.

Other people will say

he did murder women.

So the true story

will never be known.

Today was a good day

for a lot of families,

but today also wasn't a good day

for a lot of families.

My heart goes out to them and I would

like to do a cheers for them,

and we will not forget you.

(applause)

One person who

should be here,

how about we give a nice cheers

to Stevie Rakes.

Rakes:
Yes,

I hold the FBI responsible.

Good God, they protected this man,

now, you know, years later we find out

everything that he's been doing

and getting away with it.

Listen, it takes a, it takes

a village to raise a child.

For all the destruction that this

Bulger and Flemmi have done,

it would take a battalion

to cover it up.

So where are they all?

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