To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, it will take a coronary heart of stone to not chortle on the remaining hours of Whitey Bulger.
This newest report from the inspector basic of the Justice Department formally offers with the occasions main as much as the mass assassin’s brutal killing in a West Virginia jail cell in October 2018.
But probably the most attention-grabbing components of the story are the quotes from the varied Bureau of Prison (BOP) workers – screws, if you’ll – about what was on the serial-killing cocaine kingpin’s thoughts within the remaining days and hours of his bloodthirsty life.
Call the report “The Last Will and Testament of Whitey Bulger.”
Full disclosure: I’m merely reporting Whitey’s final phrases, however not as a result of I maintain any grudge towards the late archfiend just because, in response to stories by others, he sought out corrupt FBI brokers to acquire C4 explosives that he deliberate to make use of to blow me up within the driveway of my own residence.
Despite my lack of malice, it did deliver a smile to my face once I learn on web page 29 that lower than a month earlier than he was bludgeoned past recognition, he complained to his case supervisor that he had “lost the will to live.”
Whitey elaborated:
“I have no quality of life. My health is gone. I get chest pains when I eat. Chest pains when I lay (sic) down. I feel lethargic all the time. I have memory problems. I’m deteriorating.”
Hey Whitey, right here’s 1 / 4. Call somebody who cares!
He was 89 years outdated. How did he anticipate to be feeling? And no matter his well being, Bulger was nonetheless doing lots higher than all of the individuals he’d murdered over the a long time.
Remember, he was convicted of 11 murders as a substitute of 19 solely as a result of a feminine juror with a hyphenated final identify fell head over heels for him within the courtroom. And that determine of 19 victims was a lowball quantity too – beneath oath in 2018, his longtime partner-in-crime Stevie Flemmi admitted to not less than 50 murders. Fifty!
Whitey ended up in Hazelton as a result of he’d turn into an issue at his Florida jail, Coleman, simply as beforehand he’d been transferred from the Tucson pen as a result of he was a troublemaker – “just another old gangster,” as he’s referred to on web page 60.
Bulger’s alleged mistreatment by the BOP is one other irony, contemplating his deluxe lodging throughout his first Club Fed stint, in 1956-65. Back then he was a BOP VIP – he was being personally watched over by his highly effective Congressman John McCormack, in addition to by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who had a number of pursuits in widespread with the confirmed-bachelor gangster.
In March 2018, Whitey had a run-in with a feminine nurse (Whitey all the time had issues with ladies – go determine). He had requested her for a long-sleeve shirt. Bulger didn’t like her response, and whereas she in the end didn’t get the identical remedy the Mob hitman gave a few 26-year-old ladies named Deb (specifically, strangulation), he did begin yelling on the lady.
“You’re treating me like a dog, doing all this to me! You will have your reckoning and will pay for this. I know people and my word is good!”
Yeah, Whitey knew individuals. Too unhealthy for him they had been all useless, even those he hadn’t gotten round to murdering earlier than he was lugged in 2011.
That was on web page 20 of the report. On the subsequent web page, the inspector basic quotes from his disciplinary listening to about that run-in, at which period Whitey elaborated about his feminine nemesis’ day of reckoning:
“I told her… I’ll expose her for giving me a heart attack. She gave me a heart attack due to yelling at me. It was all blown out of proportion. I didn’t threaten her.”
I recall Johnny Martorano being requested at Whitey’s trial in 2013 about what the defendant’s position within the mob was.
“Intimidation, mostly,” Martorano mentioned.
But on the finish, a jail nurse yells at Whitey and he takes a coronary heart assault?
In the report, I might have used just a few extra quotes from Whitey, together with from the 2015 disciplinary listening to the place he was accused of… pleasuring himself, let’s consider.
Did he ever discuss to any of the guards about his longtime moll, Catherine Greig? It could be good to have a few of his ideas on their weird relationship, akin to the way it started. I’d like one thing like this on the document:
“Did you know that I personally murdered two of Catherine’s brothers-in-law? It was love at first sight.”
At Coleman, he was in an SHU – Special Housing Unit – which was principally solitary confinement. The BOP evaluation was that inmate #02182-748 was somebody who “threatens the safety and security of the institution and the safety of the staff member.”
Whitey needed out of Coleman. He didn’t need to die in solitary. He needed again in General Population. When he arrived in West Virginia, he instructed the consumption screener, “I got two life sentences. I want to go to the yard.”
That stunned the BOP screw, who was acquainted with Whitey’s c.v.
“You sure (you want) to go to the yard, man?” he requested Bulger. “I saw the movie.”
“Don’t believe everything you see,” Whitey scoffed.
Then Whitey was wheeled off to get his new mugshot.
“When Bulger was being photographed he stated, ‘Who knows, this might be my last picture.’”
Asked what he meant, Whitey mentioned, “I’m old and will not have too many more transfers in me.”
Very prescient, wasn’t he? You would possibly even say, eerily prescient.
But on the final full day of his life, Whitey saved reiterating that he had no need to return into solitary.
“I don’t want to go to the SHU. I love everybody and I’m good with everybody.”
That wasn’t fairly so prescient of Whitey, was it? A couple of hours later, at daybreak on Oct. 30, 2018, he was crushed to loss of life in his cell, allegedly by two Mob jailbirds from Massachusetts.
In different phrases, not everyone liked Whitey. Who knew?
Source: www.bostonherald.com”