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James 'Whitey' Bulger, the Boston mobster arrested in California last month after 16 years on the run, pleaded not guilty to 48 charges including racketeering, extortion, money laundering, obstruction of justice, perjury, and weapons violations.
At one point, Whitey wrote that he developed a 'morbid fear of LSD' and felt if he had any more of it, 'it would push me over the edge.' He was afraid that 'if I mentioned hearing voices' or the 'seeming movement of calendar in cell, etc., that I'd be committed for life and never see the outside again.'
[Bulger] was deliberately placed in harm's way. There is simply no other explanation for the transfer of someone in his condition and inmate status to be placed in the general population of one of the country's most violent federal penitentiaries.
[Congress] has repeatedly limited judicial authority to review BOP housing decisions and to entertain claims brought by prisoners.
Fotios Geas, also known as "Freddy," age 55, Paul J. DeCologero, also known as "Pauly," 48, and Sean McKinnon, 36, were charged on Wednesday with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Geas and DeCologero are accused of striking Bulger in the head multiple times and causing his death in October of 2018 while all were incarcerated at United States Penitentiary Hazleton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. In addition to the conspiracy charge, Geas and DeCologero have been charged with aiding and abetting first degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
"He did not like or respect anyone who was a rat," said the lawyer of one of the inmates under suspicion.
In 1957, while a prisoner at the Atlanta penitentiary, I was recruited by Dr. Carl Pfeiffer of Emory University to join a medical project that was researching a cure for schizophrenia. For our participation, we would receive three days of good time for each month on the project.
[T]he only reason [Bulger] owned the South Boston Liquor Mart was because he'd paid a visit a few years earlier to its previous owner, Stephen "Stippo" Rakes, intimating that Rakes' child might be harmed if he didn't agree to sell the store to Whitey. Similar coercion, just about everyone figured, accounted for Whitey's lottery score.
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{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)In 1957, while a prisoner at the Atlanta penitentiary, I was recruited by Dr. Carl Pfeiffer of Emory University to join a medical project that was researching a cure for schizophrenia. For our participation, we would receive three days of good time for each month on the project.
Bulger, the former head of the notorious Winter Hill Gang and an FBI informant, fled in January 1995, after being tipped by a former Boston FBI agent that he was about to be indicted on federal racketeering charges. He was later charged in connection with 19 murders.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)[Bulger] was deliberately placed in harm's way. There is simply no other explanation for the transfer of someone in his condition and inmate status to be placed in the general population of one of the country's most violent federal penitentiaries.
[Congress] has repeatedly limited judicial authority to review BOP housing decisions and to entertain claims brought by prisoners.
Bulger, the former head of the notorious Winter Hill Gang and an FBI informant, fled in January 1995, after being tipped by a former Boston FBI agent that he was about to be indicted on federal racketeering charges. He was later charged in connection with 19 murders.