Xhiril

Well in fairness you have the current Secretary of State John Kerry who sat in at plenty of Billy's breakfasts. You had GhwB getting Billy to back him after the breakfast Dukakis didnt show to and then GhwB trouncing Dukakis. This is why the Bush administration blocked the investigation of Bulger until threatened with contempt.

There are some extremely powerful politicians who owe a lot to Billy Bulger and just want this story to go away.

FUCK YEAH MATH

You either got it right or you didn't.

Why is there no uproar, no Al Sharpton speeches, no president making speeches when it is black on black violence which is far more prevalent than the white on black violence we see getting tons of media coverage?

7 people were shot this weekend in Baltimore. Where is the #blacklivesmatter uproar for that?

So he should be happy Howie is getting rich talking about killings while their victims get nothing?

The media profited immensely from this, Howie specifically. He wrote a book with a guy who murdered 20 people for gods' sake and just said how genial he was.

Howie hated the criminals until he started getting paid to work with them.

I am saying that and you can search my post history and tell this is my only account.

I think that politically, Billy Bulger really understood the "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" that pervades politics. He took care of his friends, and they took care of him. When you control the purse strings, people want to be nice to you. I believe, to this day, that Billy Bulger still receives the highest pension of any Mass. state employee.