JUNE 24, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
June 24 is … Museum Comes To Life Day
They made a couple of movies about this day with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.
I made an error two days ago in my column about mass murders. The execution style killings in Bloomington, IL at a liquor store in 1988 did get solved. Three people were convicted although it took over a lustrum for the authorities to solve the crime. My brother, who lives in Bloomington, was happy to point my error out to me. Thank You.
The FBI finally caught Whitey Bulger after 16 years on the run. Jack Nicholson played his character in the movie The Departed. He was captured near Los Angeles without incident. His girlfriend has a love of beauty parlors and that lead to his capture.
According to the HuffPost, fugitive Massachusetts mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been arrested after nearly sixteen years on the run, US authorities say. It has long been rumored the FBI was not looking too hard for him because he is an embarrassment to the Bureau.
Bulger, a Top 10 Fugitive, was apprehended by the FBI in California late Wednesday night. Authorities had been hunting for the 81-year-old for more than 15 years. Bulger was the alleged leader of the Winter Hill Gang, a league of organized crime figures in Boston, whose members have included notorious Boston gangsters Howie Winter, James McLean and Stephen Flemmi. Bulger helped the FBI rid Boston of the Italian Mafia and then took over with his Irish mob. According to Special Agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman at the FBI Boston office, Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, 60-year-old Catherine Elizabeth Greig, were taken into custody without incident.
Bulger, a Top 10 Fugitive, was apprehended by the FBI in California late Wednesday night. Authorities had been hunting for the 81-year-old for more than 15 years. Bulger was the alleged leader of the Winter Hill Gang, a league of organized crime figures in Boston, whose members have included notorious Boston gangsters Howie Winter, James McLean and Stephen Flemmi. Bulger helped the FBI rid Boston of the Italian Mafia and then took over with his Irish mob. According to Special Agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman at the FBI Boston office, Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, 60-year-old Catherine Elizabeth Greig, were taken into custody without incident.
"Recent publicity produced a tip which led agents to Santa Monica, where they spotted both Bulger and Greig at a residence. ... Initial appearances will be scheduled in the Southern District of California," Comcowich said.
In 1995, Bulger was indicted for federal racketeering and for 19 murders. Bulger and Greig, a one-time dental hygienist, fled before authorities could take him into custody. The couple is believed to have gone to Louisiana and then Chicago. The last credible sighting of them had been nearly 10 years ago, in London.
The arrest of Bulger and Greig came just one day after the FBI launched a publicity campaign to flush out the fugitive mob boss. The campaign consisted of a 30-second public service announcement that began airing Tuesday on TV stations around the country. The PSA was designed to make the public aware of Greig's relationship with Bulger and her physical characteristics.
"The FBI believes that publicizing Catherine Grieg's photo and characteristics among her contemporaries will lead to a tip about her whereabouts and, ultimately, to the arrest of Bulger," Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the Boston division, said Monday.
The FBI tweeted news of the fugitives capture early Thursday morning. According to California media outlets, the couple has been living on the third floor of The Princess Eugenia, a three-story building in the 1000 block of Third Street in Santa Monica. The worldwide manhunt for Bulger was ultimately a waste of time. The landlord of the building where the pair were arrested said they have been tenants for 15 years. Like bin Laden, they were hiding in plain sight.
Bulger and Greig are scheduled to make an appearance at federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon. I doubt he is going to agree to any extradition. You do not stay on the lam for over 15 years because you want to cooperate with the authorities.
In 1995, Bulger was indicted for federal racketeering and for 19 murders. Bulger and Greig, a one-time dental hygienist, fled before authorities could take him into custody. The couple is believed to have gone to Louisiana and then Chicago. The last credible sighting of them had been nearly 10 years ago, in London.
The arrest of Bulger and Greig came just one day after the FBI launched a publicity campaign to flush out the fugitive mob boss. The campaign consisted of a 30-second public service announcement that began airing Tuesday on TV stations around the country. The PSA was designed to make the public aware of Greig's relationship with Bulger and her physical characteristics.
"The FBI believes that publicizing Catherine Grieg's photo and characteristics among her contemporaries will lead to a tip about her whereabouts and, ultimately, to the arrest of Bulger," Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the Boston division, said Monday.
The FBI tweeted news of the fugitives capture early Thursday morning. According to California media outlets, the couple has been living on the third floor of The Princess Eugenia, a three-story building in the 1000 block of Third Street in Santa Monica. The worldwide manhunt for Bulger was ultimately a waste of time. The landlord of the building where the pair were arrested said they have been tenants for 15 years. Like bin Laden, they were hiding in plain sight.
Bulger and Greig are scheduled to make an appearance at federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon. I doubt he is going to agree to any extradition. You do not stay on the lam for over 15 years because you want to cooperate with the authorities.
This story is going to be around for a while. I am sure many FBI Agents in Boston, New York, Buffalo and Washington DC are worried. Many of those initially involved in this case have retired, died, been terminated or indicted. Stay tuned, this could be a fun ride.
President Obama is not getting much praise, support or attaboyz from either side of the aisle on his sophomoric attempt to curry favor with voters by announcing a slow relatively minor troop drawdown from Afghanistan. He has broken another promise and this is a big one but he and his spinners will try to convince anyone that will listen that he is doing as he said he would do.
Lincoln said it best, “You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Apparently President Obama does not subscribe to that adage. He is once again placing his trust in his belief the citizenry are fools.
The bikini car wash must not have worked out well for the sorry waste of carbon called Octomom. Just when you thought it was safe to have sex again, Nadya Suleman -- that's Octomom -- is heading to a TV near you in a brand-new celebrity dating show on HDNet, 'Celebridate.' I sure hope this crashes and burns quickly.
"I was lucky enough to be invited to be a part of it" Nadya said. "I have not watched TV in almost a decade, but I might just tune into this one! This is called 'Celebridate' and I don't perceive myself to be a celebrity, but I guess they do. To a certain degree, I am in the public eye." You are the best known self promoting welfare sucking human on the planet. You will undoubtedly ruin the children the State is paying you to raise. That is why you are in the public eye; it is just because you have female reproductive organs.
"I was lucky enough to be invited to be a part of it" Nadya said. "I have not watched TV in almost a decade, but I might just tune into this one! This is called 'Celebridate' and I don't perceive myself to be a celebrity, but I guess they do. To a certain degree, I am in the public eye." You are the best known self promoting welfare sucking human on the planet. You will undoubtedly ruin the children the State is paying you to raise. That is why you are in the public eye; it is just because you have female reproductive organs.
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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