Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Page #9

...testified he was James Whitey

Bulger's chief executioner.

Man:
Killing was routine.

In all, Martorano

murdered at least 20 people.

Woman:
Martorano served

just 12 years in prison

as part of a deal

with federal prosecutors.

Man 2:
The confessed murderer

was asked about a number of killings

he committed, including

the killing of Roger Wheeler,

the president of World Jai-Alai,

in Oklahoma.

Boeri:
The Jai Alai murders are

the heart of this, because they show

how ugly and sordid

everything became.

This is shocking. He is killed

in daylight, at a country club,

while kids at the swimming pool

are watching.

Wyshak:
And who was Roger Wheeler?

Martorano:
He was the owner of Jai Alai,

World Jai Alai... it was a game.

Wyshak:
Did that game

involve gambling?

Martorano:
Yes.

Man:
I never did like gambling.

But the Bank of Boston

brought him this Jai Alai deal.

And part of the deal,

because I kept asking him about this,

he said that the FBI

keeps it clean.

It's run by retired FBI agents

that specialized

in investigating organized crime,

and they keep the Mob out.

Boeri:
So, Wheeler buys this company,

World Jai Alai.

Unbeknownst to him, it's infiltrated

by the Mob already,

connected to Winter Hill.

Weeks:
World Jai Alai

hired John Callahan,

a friend of John Martorano,

as a president.

And they had H. Paul Rico

head of security.

And Rico was a corrupt

ex-FBI agent, and he had

and he had relationships

with Winter Hill.

Callahan is actually the architect who

first brought the scheme forward with Rico,

to kill Wheeler, and then

go to his widow and buy it,

buy World Jai Alai,

they would be the owners,

and the money was going to be

kicked back to Winter Hill.

Paul Rico'd resell it to the people back

up here that he was involved with before.

Martorano:
Callahan... he asked me to

take out Roger Wheeler.

Wyshak:
What was

your reaction to that?

Martorano:
I couldn't do that

without everybody else on board.

Wyshak:
And when you said you had

to get everybody else on board,

who did you mean?

Martorano:
Whitey and Stevie.

They said they were on board,

whatever they could do

to help, they'd help.

Weeks:
In the end of it, John

Martorano shot Wheeler in the head.

Cullen:
There were honest FBI agents

in Oklahoma who wanted to get to

the bottom of the murder

of Roger Wheeler.

Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi

were implicated, and the FBI in Boston

lied to the FBI in Oklahoma.

They said Bulger and Flemmi

had nothing to do with it,

they have alibis, we've checked it out.

That was a lie. And murderers

went free because of it.

Man:
You hold the FBI

as responsible as Bulger

for the death of your father?

More responsible.

The FBI has protected him,

they have supervised him,

and without the FBl,

my father would be alive today.

Next person that emerges

in this story is Brian Halloran.

Halloran is facing his own problems,

namely he's charged

with murdering a drug dealer.

He needs help.

And this is the typical system

of informants

and cooperating witnesses,

he wants to make a deal.

And so he comes forward,

and he can give up Whitey Bulger

and Stephen Flemmi he says,

because they were part of a plot

to kill Roger Wheeler.

So, Halloran is a threat

to Bulger and Flemmi.

They eliminate Halloran,

and in the process of eliminating him,

they kill Michael Donahue,

somebody he knew

from the neighborhood.

Woman:
Of the 19

alleged murder victims,

their loved ones have become

fixtures at this trial and today,

Patricia Donahue took the stand.

Donahue:
All I want to do is clear

my husband's name.

I did not want him associated with

the Mafia, with Whitey Bulger,

with Brian Halloran.

You know, he wasn't into that, he

didn't even know those people.

He was innocent,

he wasn't in trouble,

he wasn't a Mafia man,

he wasn't a killer.

Mike was 32 when he died.

He actually would've

been 33 in a week.

Whitey pulled the trigger,

but I blame the FBl, too.

They knew what was gonna happen.

(sirens in distance)

There goes Whitey.

- (woman laughing)

- That's funny.

- I'm serious, lookit.

- Woman:
There's Whitey, people.

We'll see you in there, you lowlife.

Man:
Michael Donahue was murdered

simply because he offered

a neighbor, Brian Halloran,

a ride home.

Unbeknownst to Michael Donahue,

Brian Halloran at the time

was cooperating with the FBl,

and was about to reveal

that James Bulger was involved

in the murder of Roger Wheeler.

Fitzpatrick:
After the

Wheeler murder, Halloran comes in,

and he wants to talk.

We open him up as an informant,

and he begins telling us that this

was done by Bulger and Flemmi.

And so, I opened up murder cases

on Bulger and Flemmi.

Now you have to understand

something here.

Halloran is giving us the subject.

He's telling us this guy

is the killer of Wheeler,

Bulger is the killer of Wheeler.

That's a plus, that's a big plus.

They should be very happy,

they being the Department of Justice

and the Strike Force Chief

Jerry O'Sullivan.

And yet, they're not.

O'Sullivan said,

"No, I'm not gonna put Halloran

in a witness protection program."

Why not?

So I went over O'Sullivan's head.

I went to the United

States Attorney, Bill Weld.

And I said to Bill Weld,

"Bill, we got a problem.

I got an informant, Halloran, that's

gonna tell us who did this stuff.

And O'Sullivan is feeling

that he should not be

in the Witness Protection program."

I told Weld, he's gonna get whacked.

At the same time, John Morris

at the FBl, told John Connolly

that Brian Halloran was

revealing Bulger's involvement.

And Morris knew full well

that John Connolly

would convey that information

to Whitey Bulger. And he did.

Weeks:
We received word from the FBI

that Brian Halloran

was cooperating with the FBI

about the Wheeler murder.

So Jim Bulger and Steve Flemmi,

myself and other people

go out looking for him.

One day we got word that Brian

Halloran was down the waterfront.

Michael Donahue happened to

have gone down to the pier

in South Boston to get fish

to use as bait

to take one of his sons on a fishing trip.

And he stopped to have a beer

on his way home. He ran into

Brian Halloran who was his neighbor.

He offered to give him a ride home.

So we went down the waterfront,

you know,

we got the hit car, weapons,

and everyone, you know.

He was geared up and stuff.

And I went down ahead,

I sat across the street and watched

to make sure Brian Halloran

was, in fact, there.

You know, when he started

coming out, I told Jim Bulger,

and Jim Bulger pulled up, and he shot

Brian Halloran and killed him.

Michael Donahue

was an unintended victim.

He wasn't supposed to be

getting killed, it was Brian Halloran

that we were going to kill.

But he hung around with Halloran.

You want to hang around

with gangsters and wise guys,

this is what happens.

Woman:
Patricia Donahue has spent

the last 32 years raising three sons

without her husband Michael.

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