However,Johnny Depps real-life gangster rolehas been highly praised, despite hisBlack MassOscar snub.
Released from prison in the 1960s,Bulger returned to Boston andestablished a powerful criminal empire.
TheMasspart could also refer to Massachusetts.
Thegang was a primarily Irish-American organization.
Their name is derived from the Winter Hill neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts.
The surname of Howie Winter is a coincidence.
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His ascension to leader was made possible because ofhis protection by the FBI.
He had already got away with serious crimes by this point.
For example, Frank Capizzi was shot three times by Bulger in 1973.
Black Mass is a crime drama biography based on the true story of one of the most notorious criminals in U.S. History, Whitey Bulger. When Bulger’s turf is encroached on by a rival mafia family, the Angiulo brothers, the death of one of his own mafia family members leads him to join his long-time friend and become an informant for the FBI to exact his revenge - and push the Angiulo’s out of his turf.
He told this to the FBI when they visited his home.
Despite this, Bulger was not arrested.
He worked most closely with FBI Special Agent John Connolly, a school friend of Bulgers.
Flemmi is still alive and currently serving a life sentence.
Both Flemmi and Bulger provided information on other gangs to the FBI in addition to Winter Hill.
The Patriarca family memberswere sometimes allies but often rivals with the Winter Hill Gang(The Mob Museum).
The key difference between the Winter Hill Gang and the Patriarca family was their geographical scope.
It misses some really interesting material, includingWhiteys 16 years as a fugitive.
There are excellent books about it, includingThe Brothers Bulgerby Howie Carr.
Bulger vanished on December 23, 1994.
Carr details additional events in the days leading up to his absconsion, which provide more backstory.
The tip-off was from Kevin Weeks, his longtime friend and lieutenant.
Weeks had been given the information of an upcoming federal indictment from Zip.
Before this, he lived as Thomas Baxter, a retiree traveling with his partner.
He traveled as widely as London without being caught.
He was sentenced to life in prison.
He was beaten to death by fellow inmates.
He later wrote the bookA Criminal and an Irishmanin 2006.
