The folk of tardily South Beantown criminal offense hirer and play top banana James River “Whitey” Bulger cannot exact indemnification from the US administration over his death.
A federal jurist inward Mae West Old Dominion State has tossed a complaint that the Fed Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed inward its obligation to protect the 89-year-old.
Bulger, who was a longtime FBI informant, was murdered inward his prison cell inward Oct 2018. The gangster was frail and wheelchair-bound when he was beaten to last by a padlock stuffed inside a sock. His dying occurred less than 12 hours after he was transferred from a Florida prison house to US Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia.
As a known snitch against New England’s Patriarca criminal offense family, the plaintiffs argued he should make been shielded from those who power make out him harm. They also lay claim he may get been “deliberately placed inwards harm’s way.”
“Predictably, within hours of his position in superior general population at Hazelton, inmates believed to live from New England and who are alleged to experience Cosa Nostra ties or loyalties, killed James IV Bulger Jr,” read the lawsuit.
No One Charged
In the straightaway aftermath, at least quaternion inmates were hauled into solitary confinement. One, Fotios “Freddy” Geas, a former Maffia hitman from Springfield, Mass., remains in that respect and is the prime quantity surmise inwards the murder.
But III years after Bulger’s untitled demise, no more single has been officially been supercharged with the crime.
Dismissing the case, US District Judge Saint John the Apostle Preston Pearl Bailey wrote that Congress had opportunities to make a restitution remedy in cases where a prison housing decision led to trauma but had non through so.
“Instead, it has repeatedly modified juridical potency to look back BOP housing decisions and to entertain claims brought by prisoners,” he said.
Long Time Fugitive
Bulger was the brag of Irish Gaelic American organised offence radical the Winter J. J. Hill Gang. At the height of his powers inwards the mid-1980s, he controlled gambling, extortion, loansharking, truck hijackings, and arms trafficking rackets throughout eastern Massachusetts. At his test inward 2013, he was convicted of 11 murders.
His trading operations were protected past his cooperation with the FBI. In 1994, Bulger’s longtime FBI handler, King John Connolly, tipped him sour almost his imminent arrest, and he went on the run.
He was a fugitive from justice for 16 years until his catch inward 2011 at a Santa Monica apartment, where he had been living quiet with lady friend Catherine Grieg. In 2013, he received deuce life-time sentences for racketeering and murder.
Connolly was sentenced to 40 years on racketeering, impediment of justice, and second-degree off charges.