Will Bulger’s Arrest Uncover More FBI Corruption?
“How sweet it is! Finally, after all these years! Caught?… You want to threaten me?… You want to threaten to pick me off from the cemetery across the street from my house now? Who’s laughing now, Whitey?”
— WRKO-Boston radio talk-show host and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr
Nobody was happier to hear of the arrest of Boston Irish mobster James “Whitey” Bulger on June 22 than Boston radio talk show host and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, who had reportedly been on a Bulger assassination list when Bulger was on his spree. (Only the fact that Carr came out of his house with his little daughter prevented triggerman Kevin Weeks from putting the outspoken columnist and top-rated talk-show host in the grave.)
But the FBI may not have been so happy to hear Bulger was finally in federal custody, as new corruption revelations may create additional shock waves through the FBI.