James Whitey Bulger

A Massachusetts judge has ordered fugitive mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and a cohort to pay $15 million each to the family of 26-year-old woman after finding them liable for her 1981 murder. Judge Patrick Brady also ordered Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, serving a life sentence for 10 murders, to pay $3 million for molesting the woman's younger sister, and another $500,000 for intentionally inflicting emotional distress on the woman's mother. The sister and mother have both died. Bulger, who just turned 80, remains on the loose. Flemmi dated Debra Davis, and authorities allege she was killed because she knew too much about the ... Read Full Story

A federal judge in Massachusetts has tentatively awarded nearly $2 million to the families of three people allegedly murdered by fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger and his cohort, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi. The families of Debra Davis, Deborah Hussey and Louis Litif alleged in wrongful death lawsuits that the FBI was liable in their deaths because it protected and failed to control Bulger and Flemmi, who were FBI informants. Judge William Young ruled tentatively Friday that each of the three families is entitled to $350,000 for pain and suffering. He also awarded Litif's family $800,000 for loss of consortium. Litif was a bookmaker and ... Read Full Story

New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi has taken the witness stand in wrongful death lawsuits filed by three families who say the FBI failed to control Flemmi and fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. The families of Deborah Hussey, Debra Davis and Louis Litif say the FBI is responsible for their deaths because it protected Flemmi and Bulger, who were FBI informants against the Mafia. Flemmi has admitted killing Hussey, who was his girlfriend, and Davis, the daughter of his common-law wife. No one has been charged with killing Litif, a bookmaker who was also an FBI informant. The Justice Department claims the FBI ... Read Full Story

Disgraced ex-FBI agent John Connolly Jr. "crossed over to the dark side," said Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Stanford Blake. The sentence will run consecutively to a 10-year racketeering sentence.Connolly, 68, was convicted in November of second-degree murder in the death of businessman John Callahan, an executive with World Jai-Alai. Callahan's bullet-riddled body was found in the trunk of a Cadillac parked at Miami International Airport.Connolly's fall from celebrated mob-buster to paid gangland flunky captivated a South Florida courtroom for weeks. In testimony at his sentencing hearing last month, he denied having any role in Callahan's death."It's heartbreaking to hear what happened to your father ... Read Full Story

"Whitey" Bulger. Bulger has been on the run for 14 years wanted for the murders of 19 people. F.B.I.doubling the reward for information leading to his capture to $2 million.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.The FBI announced the new reward on Wednesday with federal prosecutors, state police and state prisons officials. Bulger , on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, provided the FBI ... Read Full Story