Mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger sent to prison for life for ‘unfathomable’ crimes

With the aid of Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – Bringing an end to Boston's longest-operating crime saga, a federal choose on Thursday sentenced former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger to spend the rest of his existence in prison, calling his crimes "almost unfathomable." Bulger, 84, sat stoically as U.S. District Decide Denise Casper recounted the crimes he was convicted of, together with 11 murders, extortion and drug dealing whereas he ran Boston's brutal Winter Hill crime gang within the Seventies and '80s. Bulger terrorized the city for many years sooner than fleeing in late 1994 on a tip that his arrest used to be impending, and he spent sixteen years on the lam. "The testimony of human suffering that you and your pals inflicted on others was at times agonizing to hear and painful to look at," Casper advised Bulger in Boston's waterfront federal courthouse, located simply blocks from where some of Bulger's killings took place. Bulger stood silently, carrying an orange prison jumpsuit over a long-sleeved T-shirt, as his sentence was learn.