Boss Boston Mafia killed in prison

The famous Boston gangster James Bulger was found dead in West Virginia Federal Prison.

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The body of the 89-year-old crime boss was discovered in the cell in the morning, US media reported. He was killed on the very first day after being transferred from a prison in Florida.

In 2013, Bulger was found guilty of murdering 11 people. His criminal life served as a prototype for famous films: “Black Mass” with Johnny Depp and the film “The Departed” directed by Martin Scorsese, which won several Oscars in 2006.

According to CBS information received from law enforcement officers, Bulger was severely beaten by cellmates.

According to WFXT-TV, Bulger was killed a few hours after he was placed with other prisoners in the prison.

Last week, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons refused to answer the question of why it was decided to transfer Bulger from a prison in Florida.

Bulger's lawyer told the BBC: "I was honored to be appointed by the federal court as James Bulger's lawyer. He was sentenced to life in prison, but due to a decision by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, this sentence was reduced to execution."

According to Globe, in 2014, Bulger was transferred to a Florida prison from another prison in Arizona because of his relationship with a woman psychologist, who was drawn to the attention of the prison authorities.

While the official circumstances of the death were not announced, however, the representative of the local prison labor union Richard Heldret told CBS that the murder occurred on Tuesday morning.

“This is the third murder in seven months in our prison. We are very short-staffed, about 40 people understaffed,” he said in a telephone interview.

The Penitentiary Administration officially confirmed the death of Bulger and reported that the FBI is investigating his death.

The statement did not say what caused the death, but noted that "no prison staff or other inmates were injured, nor was there any threat to public safety."

Who is James Bulger?

Bulger was born in 1929 year in a large family of Irish descent.

He became a member of one of the Boston crime gangs while still a teenager. He hijacked cars and soon began to participate in bank robberies.

Bulger subsequently built a criminal empire on usury, gambling, extortion, drug selling and murder.

In 1956, he was found guilty of banditry and car theft, and he spent part of his sentence in the famous Alcatraz prison in San Francisco.

He liked it so much that he later returned there as a tourist, while hiding from the police.

Bulger was extremely cruel. Once he personally strangled two women and tortured a man for several hours, after which he shot him in the face with a machine gun.

He got away with a lot thanks to an FBI agent who turned a blind eye to his crimes, for which he received information about other gangsters from him.

Bulger's brother William became a successful politician in the Democratic Party. In 1978, he headed the Massachusetts State Senate and subsequently became president of the University of Massachusetts.

He assures that he did not know about the criminal life of his brother, but because of his love for him, he could not report his unlawful actions by the police.

In 1995, James Bulger went on the run when he learned from an FBI agent that charges were being prepared for him.

Criminal authority was arrested in 2011 in the California city of Santa Monica, where he was hiding with his beloved Catherine Greig. She is currently detained in the Minnesota Women's Prison.

In 2013, Bulger was convicted of a number of federal crimes, including complicity in the killings of 11 people in 1970 and 80.

The US government had to pay a total of more than 20 million dollars to the relatives of those killed, because at the time of the crimes he was under the supervision of the authorities.

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