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Whitey Bulger

American crime boss
Also known as: James Joseph Bulger, Jr.
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Whitey Bulger (born September 3, 1929, Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 30, 2018, U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia) was an American crime boss who, as head of the Boston-area Winter Hill Gang, was a leading figure in organized crime from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. For more than a decade, until his capture in June 2011, he was listed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as one of its 10 most-wanted fugitives....

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