Meanwhile Trump is stealing $1 Billion from American Taxpayers for his illegal vanity project.
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Reed752519 hr ago
+21
Projects plural
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BearsBeetsBerlin12 hr ago
+3
Maybe it was thousands of his hairs and that’s why he’s bald
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kbasante26516 hr ago
+1
Pfft haha 😂
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CalvinAshdale-21 hr ago
+3
You just did a better job
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ForceOfNature52523 hr ago
+410
His name was James Joseph Bulger Jr. His nickname was "Whitey", his middle name was not Whitney.
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Drunkgummybear121 hr ago
+85
That’s a name with a bit of [baggage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger) here in the UK. Proper double take when I saw that.
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kms254720 hr ago
+22
Oof, that's terrible.
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Drunkgummybear120 hr ago
+36
Yeah, crops up in the news every couple of years when Jon Venables commits yet another crime and has to be given a new identity again.
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ABritishCynic6 hr ago
+1
He has't commited once since he got recalled back to prison.
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Drunkgummybear16 hr ago
+1
I keep forgetting that 2017 wasn’t 3 years ago.
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squeezyscorpion18 hr ago
-7
wtf is up with your criminal justice system
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Shibbystix17 hr ago
+22
Same as yours most likely
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URSAxMINOR18 hr ago
+10
I was so worried my memory wasnt serving me well and i had to read the comments to see if its the same person and the death all them years ago was fake or something.😬
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Fun_Break_323110 hr ago
+1
I think my mind just snapped when I saw "Whitney"! I about barfed, I laughed so hard.
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Latter-Fun130522 hr ago
+2
“…die in a bathtub”
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sephjnr22 hr ago
+1
I read up on how he went out. He'd have preferred the Cracktub.
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-Dixieflatline15 hr ago
-5
It's also not "Whitney", but I suspect that was just a simple mistake from OP, as well as not putting it in quotes. I don't think anyone actually believes his middle name to be "whitey".
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Whatdoesthibattahndo22 hr ago
+55
50 thousands, to be more specific. Wonder what the billable hours were to get it done
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KingSwank21 hr ago
+12
The Brits found that he had bank accounts there so hopefully probably not that many hours.
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Whatdoesthibattahndo21 hr ago
+3
"Yeah, looks solid, but let us just take one more look before you send it out"
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Samski87723 hr ago
+102
Mad how long some of these criminal cases carry on for even after the person is dead
Whitey Bulger was basically treated like a ghost story in Boston for years and theyre still recovering money connected to him now. Shows how much organised crime money gets buried away through property and assets rather than just cash under a mattress
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mrlolloran22 hr ago
+34
I could not believe when they found him. No more jokes about him being wherever they keep Jimmy Hoffa
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sharrrper20 hr ago
+17
He was 81 when they finally caught him. I had assumed for years he was probably dead, just from age if nothing else, given showing he'd been on the run.
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PaddyMcGeezus21 hr ago
+4
I remember visiting South Boston and my dad's stepmom would joke to him about going to down the street to hang out with his friend whitey bulger. Had no idea what she was talking about at the time n
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Naturenick1716 hr ago
+3
I bet they had some stories!
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Salute-Major-Echidna22 hr ago
+2
Not just organized crime. My husband hid assets from me from our company in oddball countries like Liechtenstein and a couple Caribbean countries that I'm not even sure of the names even now. Regular laundromat.
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tobbig19 hr ago
+2
Ex-husband, right?
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LiftedWanderer22 hr ago
+10
I feel like you should have just kept this comment to yourself lol
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Salute-Major-Echidna22 hr ago
+3
Are you even aware how common this is?
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FireDownBelow6919 hr ago
+1
James Whitey Bulger.
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ThinCrusts20 hr ago
+14
> most wanted.
> 50k.
Genuinely thought it'd be a few hundred thousands or a million
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bpnc3322 hr ago
+9
How can you seize money from a man that's been dead for a decade?
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Salute-Major-Echidna18 hr ago
+5
He left accounts in a lot of places.
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comfortably_nuumb14 hr ago
+2
Spare change found under the sofa cushions.
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jdflyer22 hr ago
+13
Taxpayers of the metro boston area would like some of their money back
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ThinCrusts20 hr ago
+10
Its 50k, you'll each get 25 cents
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steaklovingdude19 hr ago
+11
Black Mass was an exceptional movie, I recommend it to everyone
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blooztune16 hr ago
+8
Of all the “Southie” movies, I think this movie captured it the best (I owned a liquor store in Southie 2004-2016 and had many of his former guys as customers.)
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Naturenick1716 hr ago
+3
I had one of the authors of the book, D*** Lehr as one of my professors. Dude is an absolute badass.
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Ganbazuroi13 hr ago
+3
I watched it on a flight and holy shit it caught me off guard, hardass movie lmao
Also what made me smile when I saw what happened to him, godawful a****** of a human being this c*** was
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Total_Drongo_Moron22 hr ago
+5
If only an equivalent modern day sequel could be published to follow the theme of Curt Gentry's J Edgar Hoover - The Man and his Secrets.
Something like The FBI's John Connolly - The Man and his Secret Associates (including Whitey Bulger).
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WolfCola72322 hr ago
+3
Oh man, he’s gonna hate this!
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MrDundee66620 hr ago
+1
Pretty sure he brutally beaten to death in prison.
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VaguelyArtistic23 hr ago
+13
He lived in my neighborhood, it was pretty exciting.
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moose09822 hr ago
+3
In Santa Monica or Boston?
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HowWierd22 hr ago
+9
I lived in Santa Monica at the time. I was shocked, because I was familiar with his story. But I dont know about being "excited."
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moose09819 hr ago
+3
It was a weird story. I think he got turned in by an animal rescue lady who befriended his girlfriend.
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Salute-Major-Echidna18 hr ago
+1
Since he was an informer for the Feds, he never really had any punishment for his significant crimes
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VaguelyArtistic21 hr ago
+1
Santa Monica.
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fenwayb16 hr ago
+2
he was detained across from my high school
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SinisterPaige22 hr ago
+1
Did you ever interact with him?
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VaguelyArtistic21 hr ago
+5
Oh, no, it was just amazing that he’s been living right here for all these years. I definitely walked by his apartment a few times, though!
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Ecstatic-Suit10022 hr ago
How so?
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TurtlePoeticA22 hr ago
+9
GASP! Thousands?!?! Too bad it took millions, over the years, to bring him to justice.
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throwaway1122988722 hr ago
+15
I think all the money they spent was more about the murders than the 50k
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TurtlePoeticA22 hr ago
I know, but I find it a ridiculous article title. I'm happy that POS is off the streets, but isn't that infinitely more important than any $ recovered.
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nuisible22 hr ago
+9
> I'm happy that POS is off the streets
He died almost 8 years ago at age 89 after being in hiding for 17 years and in custody since 2012. I don't think he's had an influence in the streets since I was a child and I'm 42.
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throwaway1122988722 hr ago
Huh? I mean yeah but only one of those things actually happened recently. Are you saying you wish they made this article about capturing him (in 2011)?
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matiakicoo21 hr ago
+2
UK taxman finally caught up to Whitey Bulger's miniame
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510Goodhands20 hr ago
+1
No this is Whitney, his little known cousin! /s
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WARxxPIGG20 hr ago
+2
that dude died like ten years ago?
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drfunkenstien01415 hr ago
+2
They should update the end of Black Mass to include how he died, because it was pretty notable.
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Ganbazuroi13 hr ago
+1
Those mob guys don't forget shit it seems lmao
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JMDeutsch14 hr ago
+2
UK must be hard up for money if £50,000 seizure is a headline.
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rva2322113 hr ago
+2
The Boston Mafia BOOS
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Automatic-Echidna87022 hr ago
+5
Time to go after the billionaires please
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PigFarmer122 hr ago
+1
Has anyone informed the FBI that Bulger died years ago? lol
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rightwingcrimespree20 hr ago
+1
Maybe read the article? If that's too much to ask, then just read the first two letters of the title.
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FixerQuick22 hr ago
+1
Hopefully they meant thousands of millions or some shit, because otherwise this headline is comical, LOL. "Authorities have retrieved $2,590.23 from Whitey Bulger."
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TheRamblerX22 hr ago
-2
Are they going to put it in the museum along with everything else they "seized"?
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GodsBicep22 hr ago
-2
Just like all the museums in the US with stolen artifacts? Give it a rest lmao
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