The government is seeking grand jury indictments against three reputed Mafia lieutenants in the Boston branch of the Patriarca crime family, including Ferrara. 'The Animal' Ferrara is led into court in Boston on Nov. The 89-year-old Bulger was discovered unresponsive in October 2018 at a maximum-security. Prosecutors said he strangled two women with his bare hands and tortured a man for hours before shooting him in the head with a machine gun.Īfter he retired from the FBI, Connolly tipped off Bulger about a coming indictment, sending the mobster on the run in 1995. BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 15: Reputed Mafia capo regime Vincent M. Three men have been charged over the prison killing of infamous Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger. Connolly, who looked the other way when it came to Bulger's crimes so Bulger would supply information on other gangsters.īulger, portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 2015 film "Black Mass," was feared for his short temper and brutality. They did so with the tacit approval of an FBI agent, John J. He and his Winter Hill gang went on to operate for more than two decades in the insular, Irish-dominated South Boston neighborhood, engaging in loan sharking, gambling, extortion, drug dealing and murder. Salvati, Boston mob author Howie Carr writes, refused to repay 200 he owed Barboza. He knew who the real killer was, but decided to point his finger at these four men because he had a beef with them. Two men had been seen on surveillance footage entering his cell, according to those accounts.Įarly in his criminal career, Bulger served nine years in prison for bank robbery, including a stint at the notorious Alcatraz island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. Read: Joe Barboza: Boston Barbarian Unbeknownst to the public, the judge, and the jurors, however, it turned out that Barboza had lied. In September of 1987, three years after being charged and twelve years after the crime, Marrapese was finally found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He had been beaten so badly that blood was found coming from his ears, prison staff said at the time. Read: Profile of Boston Mafia boss Peter Limone The killing of Callei, however, came back to haunt him, halting his rise in the mob. It was not immediately known whether any of the three defendants had legal representation.īulger's bloodied body was discovered wrapped in a sheet. For at least part of that time he shared a cell with Geas. He was arrested on Thursday in Florida, according to the Justice Department.Īt the time of Bulger's murder, McKinnon was serving an eight-year sentence for stealing guns from a Vermont firearms store, NBC News reported. McKinnon, who was on supervised release from federal prison when the indictment was returned, faces an additional charge of making false statements to a federal court.
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