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Bulger On Trial: Boston's Most Notorious Gangster And The Pursuit Of Justice Kindle Edition

by David Boeri (Author), Lisa Tobin (Editor), Bridget Samburg (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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The trial of James “Whitey” Bulger this summer was supposed to bring an end to one of the greatest scandals in the history of the FBI, but it dredged up a toxic swamp instead. Horrific crimes, depraved witnesses and sordid accounts of FBI agents who gave their allegiance to the mob boss emerged from the muck as families of 19 murder victims endured the presentation of broken skulls and jaws along with photos from the morgue. At center stage was the defendant, who had been listed and protected by the FBI as a secret informant. He claimed the government had given him a free pass, but prosecutors fought to keep the trial away from questions of who made Bulger what he became and how. In an extraordinary measure of their outrage, the families of the victims cheered Bulger’s own attorneys as they savaged the government’s “cover-up” and the deals prosecutors had given to Bulger’s former associates to win testimony.

In the first book to explore the trial in a larger context, WBUR investigative reporter David Boeri weaves his daily trial dispatches into the complete backstory of Bulger’s ruthless ascent to power, the men and the agency who made that possible, and the families of victims who were victimized again and again by the government’s protection of the killer. Boeri’s storytelling is informed by 26 years of national award-winning reporting on the Bulger case. He aggressively dug into FBI corruption and tracked the Bureau’s delayed, often inept search for the 16-year fugitive.

Years before Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica, Bulger travelled to California to follow his own tips in search of Whitey and showed the lack of FBI effort and enterprise. His investigation of crimes aided and abetted by FBI agents took Boeri to old murder scenes of Bulger victims in Oklahoma, Florida and Massachusetts. He followed detectives in the difficult and painful search for the bones of Bulger victims long ago buried. He sought out the families to learn what they had endured and sought out Bulger’s criminal associates even tracked some down who were in the Witness Protection Program to chronicle Bulger the boss and Bulger the killer. In “Bulger On Trial,” Boeri brings the reader into the same close contact with Bulger’s corrupt FBI handler, the younger brother who made a parallel rise to political power, the families, the criminals and the saga that links them all.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GNS4G5S
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 11278 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 396 pages

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Chris J. Cowen

David Boeri's Bulger On Trial is a great look at how a man like this was able to skirt the law for so long.

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013

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Bulger On Trial by David Boeri is a great book that is incredibly comprehensive. The book shows the world that James "Whitey" Bulger inhabited. The book is great in its desciption in how the FBI was complicit with the crimes this monster exacted on others. There is alot of information within this book. The book clocks in at almost 400 hundred pages. This is a book that should read if this world interests you.

Thank you for reading my review, if you have any questions feel free to email me, I would be happy to help you with any questions you have.

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LoriC

Interesting read

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2022

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Kept my attention. Sad that so many people are we willing to commit crimes is such horric nature though.

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Cory

A fairly direct telling of Bulger's life and criminal trial

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2014

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The first two thirds of this serves as background to the life and crimes of Whitey Bulger and his associates while the last thud recounts his trial using day by day recaps written by Mr. Boeri at the time. It provides a good look into the climate of the time and tries (somewhat successfully) to be unbiased in it's judgment of Bulger, his associates, and the corrupt government agencies that protected him. While it is fairly direct it can be repetitive and is written with a journalistic tone that is a bit different than typical biographies. Not a bad read but not spectacular either.

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Tina Dunna

Bitter sweet!

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2023

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After reading this novel it amazes me how so much corruption and crime had run rapid with the FBI how they helped and allowed such wickedness to occur. Justice was truly denied here for the families of anyone coming in contact with this criminal enterprise of thugs due to the greed and hatred from one of this countries most wicked group of criminals.

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Ed Barton

You Have To Go To He** To Get Your Witnesses

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022

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A true account of the trial of Whitey Bulger, and the lengths that the FBI went to in order to break organized crime - particularly La Cosa Nostra - and the underhanded techniques and corruption used to get information and protect informants. A fascinating read about abuse of power and ends justifying the means.

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JLprt

Wonderful flow & writing style

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2015

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A great read for True-Crime Buffs, like myself - The author has just the right 'flow' and style to keep you in the story. And thank you NPR for sponsoring this as a FREE Kindle. This Bio does what no others could do and that is hold the So.Boston Criminal Justice system & the FBI responsible for the corruption that allowed Whitey Bulgar AND his brother to fester and kill! Thank God they caught him

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Avid reader

If you want the story from a journalist...this is it

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2020

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I like fact based writing. You can not get more fact based than this. The first part if the book tells Whitey Bulger's story in narrative form, then shares the newspaper reportage from the day to day trial proceedings. This isn't "Whitey Bulger was a bad man because he had a bad childhood". This is "Whitey Bulger was a notorious criminal, and here's what he did, how he spent over a decade avoiding prosecution and how he was convicted. Period." While we do see the damage to the families of his murder victims, we also see how he came up, who he killed with, and how he scared the devil out of those who crossed his path. With a side of "the government made most of it possible."

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Diarrhea of the pen

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020

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Whitey Bulgar’s decades of terror on the streets of Boston spill from the pages of the book and enlighten the reader of the corruption within the Boston’s FBI crime unit as it relates to Bulgar.

The author writes the story for public broadcasting. I question if he made notes during the trial for a news story and then decided to throw all his notes together to make the book. Many of the facts and detail are repeated throughout the book making the book much longer than required. This was so much so that I got bored reading and looked forward to the ending, which was excruciatingly long in coming.

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