Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Page #3

you know, they're about to

get the lion's share of everything.

And Howie threw them for a loop,

when he announced that Jimmy Bulger,

he's going to front money for them,

they can put money on the street,

Ioan shark,

they can do a gambling operation,

but Whitey's going to be in charge.

And the Mullen's guys were going,

"What, are you kidding me?

We were winning."

And Tommy King, who was

a member of the Mullens said,

"We should have killed Whitey

when we had a chance,

because this is going to

come back to bite us."

Man:
Southie was great growing up.

Everybody knew everyone.

Everyone watched out for everybody.

It was great.

You know, we didn't have a lot, but

we had a lot of fun with what we had.

My brothers both went to

college, they went to Harvard,

so I was the only male at home.

I knew how to fight,

and I was kind of handy, so I started

working different bars, bouncing,

and I ended up at Triple O's.

It was a neighborhood bar.

It was kind of a rough bar,

and that's where I met Jim Bulger

and Steve Flemmi.

I was 18 at the time.

Jim was like an older brother,

he was guiding me through

a minefield and stuff,

and teaching me a lot as I went.

When I first started working with them,

they started out small, you know,

and just, you know, beating people up,

and little by little, take baby steps.

You know, from gambling,

loan sharking, you know,

to extortion and stuff, and doing

extortions with Jim Bulger and stuff,

and I was making a lot of money.

But the moment

that everything changed for me,

the moment my life changed, was when

I was involved in the first murder.

It was a double homicide.

So then I knew I was in,

and there was no getting out.

So I decided, "Well, if I'm going to

do this, I'm going to do it right.

I'm going to be the best at it

that I can."

(sirens wailing)

Woman:
It was tense in court Tuesday

between James Whitey Bulger

and the man who was once like a son

to him, his former right-hand man,

turned cooperating

government witness, Kevin Weeks.

Woman 2:
Weeks was one of

the government's star eyewitnesses.

As Bulger's mob enforcer, Kevin Weeks

says he buried the bodies,

moved the guns, and collected

the cash which bookmakers

and businessmen paid

to stay in business.

Woman:
Weeks calmly and coldly

testified he watched James Bulger

brutally murder Deborah Hussey, John

Mclntyre, and Arthur "Bucky" Barrett.

Weeks:
Jim Bulger stepped out with

a machine gun, was put in a chair,

tied with chains.

As he walked down the stairs,

Jim Bulger shot him

in the back of the head.

He was strangled,

he was just gagging...

Jim Bulger asked him

if he wanted one in the head,

and the kid said, "Yes, please,"

and shot him in the head.

There Jim had her,

strangled around the neck,

he's got his legs wrapped around her,

her lips turned blue, face,

the eyes rolled up in the head

and everything.

Steve Flemmi says, "She's not dead."

He wraps a cord around

her neck and starts twisting.

Teeth were pulled, and she's

buried in the basement floor.

Woman:
As the defense

began cross-examining

the former Bulger protege,

Weeks looked annoyed.

Carmey:
So when you told me

a moment ago that you never lied

to the investigators, that was a lie.

I've been lying my whole life,

I'm a criminal.

Woman:
The tension

reached a boiling point,

when defense attorney Jay Carney

asked Weeks:

Carney:
You were concerned

that you would be viewed as a rat.

No one calls you a rat?

Weeks:
No one says it to my face.

No one's ever said it to me.

You know, maybe behind my back.

Carney:
What would you do

if they said it to you?

"We'll go outside, just the

two of us, you say it to my face

and see what I do to you."

And he looked at me,

he goes, "Physical?"

And I says, "Yeah, I'll hurt you."

You know, I mean he asked a question

I gave him an honest answer.

Woman:
But the best was yet to come

as Carney asked how the killings

bother Weeks.

The court transcript reads,

"Because we killed people that

were rats, and I had the biggest rat

right next to me."

Bulger then said, "You suck."

Weeks fired back,

"(Expletive) you, okay."

Bulger gets in the last shot.

"(Expletive) you, too."

Man:
This is where Whitey used to take

his walks and he would meet with people.

They stayed on the street

for quite a while,

and that never should've happened.

It's just... It's crazy, it's crazy.

Long:
I worked organized crime

most of my career.

So I saw Bulger going up the chain

with the Winter Hill Gang.

Bulger and Flemmi

moved up in control.

And in 1980, a young trooper

working for me

was assigned to go down and check out

this garage down in the North End,

to see about a possible

stolen car ring.

When he went by, he noticed a lot of

organized crime figures there.

He called me, I went down,

observed for myself,

and that's when we started

this investigation.

The garage was right up here,

just a little after the truck here.

We commandeered an apartment

across the street,

and we monitored it for

about four months, every day.

And there we saw

James Bulger and Stephen Flemmi.

Anybody who is anybody in

organized crime in New England,

came here to this garage.

People who were paying rent,

protection money,

people who were in the sh*t,

let's say.

They were meeting daily with

the leaders of the New England Mafia.

The Angiulo crime family,

Patriarca crime family.

And it was unprecedented to see that.

It was absolutely shocking

to see that they were

actually working together.

That was like striking gold.

What surprised me, I'd say,

"Where's the Boston police?

Where's the FBI? Why isn't

anybody else doing this?"

They're right here.

They're operating so openly.

It just was shocking.

And we monitored that,

and documented it,

and we've got enough probable cause

to go to a judge

and issue a warrant so that we can

place listening devices inside.

And we planted the bug,

it worked great.

Everything was fine.

The next morning,

one of the first conversations we

picked up was what a great job

the state police

on the Mass turnpike do.

So, we knew the gig was up

right then and there.

Somebody was protecting them.

We knew we were had,

and we just couldn't figure out how.

Then one night, John Morris of the FBI

met a Boston detective

at a bachelor party.

And he was in a drunken state

and told the Boston detective

that, "I know you guys

are working with the state on a wire,

on a bug down on Lancaster Street.

And the bad guys know about it."

I couldn't believe it.

How does anybody know

outside of our group?

It didn't make sense.

Man:
James Whitey Bulger's

relationship with the FBI

will be the focus of testimony

this morning.

Former FBI supervisor John Morris

is expected to take the stand.

He was head of the FBI's organized

crime squad during the 70s and 80s,

overseeing former agent,

John Connolly.

Man 2:
Morris claims that he and

John Connolly shielded James Bulger

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