DOJ hammers handling of Whitey Bulger leading up to killing [+read report]

A Department of Justice probe into infamous mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s dying recognized “serious deficiencies” within the prison-transfer course of, with proof that numerous inmates knew the ailing crime boss was en path to a West Virginia lock-up earlier than somebody ultimately whacked him after he confirmed up.

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“The fact that the serious deficiencies we identified occurred in connection with a high-profile inmate like Bulger was especially concerning given that the BOP would presumably take particular care in handling such a high-profile inmate’s case,” the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General wrote in a 99-page report about Bulger’s 2018 jail slaying.

“We found that did not occur here, not because of a malicious intent or failure to comply with BOP policy, but rather because of staff and management performance failures; bureaucratic incompetence; and flawed, confusing, and insufficient policies and procedures,” the report provides.

The report goes on at some size about how the famed mob boss and assassin’s life sentence got here to finish up considerably shorter than anticipated. It particulars emails from inmates joking about Bulger’s presumably under-wraps impending arrival Oct. 29, 2018, to USP Hazelton in West Virginia — the place the 89-year-old stayed for almost sooner or later earlier than he was crushed to dying.

Inmates, per the report, had been speculating about Bulger’s “rat” tendencies, and his block included members of Five Families-connected wiseguys. Bulger now famously labored with the Boston FBI — particularly, the corrupt John “Zip” Connolly — to take down Boston’s installment of the Italian mob, paving the way in which for the Bulger-led Winter Hill Gang to rule the Boston underworld.

The report stated that greater than 100 jail staffers knew of Bulger’s switch to Hazelton, and, in response to interviews with inmates, could possibly be heard chit-chatting about it periodically.

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