Bulger denies being an informant, murderer
Source: Boston Globe
After decades of myth making and endless accounts from foes and even friends about his duplicity and brutality, on Wednesday, finally, James “Whitey” Bulger sat before judge and jury as his own version of the truth was presented by his lawyer, an unusual defense that included stark admissions of guilt.
“He was involved in drug dealing,” his lawyer, J.W. Carney Jr., matter of factly told jurors during opening statements at the long-awaited trial in US District Court, exploding Bulger’s long-held assertion that he kept cocaine and marijuana from his home turf of South Boston. And, yes, Carney told them, he was involved in illegal sports betting and loansharking.
“That’s what he did,” said Carney, conceding that Bulger ran “an unbelievably lucrative criminal enterprise” in Boston that raked in millions upon millions of dollars.
But, Bulger, who is charged with participating in 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s, denied being an informant and did not admit to killing anyone. He specifically denied strangling two young women or orchestrating the slayings of two businessmen in the death penalty states of Florida and Oklahoma.
Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/2013/06/12/james-whitey-bulger-south-boston-courthouse-where-opening-statements-trial-are-set-for-today/rFmsL6llwhKLdGj88nMHAI/story.html
See also Washington Post, As Whitey Bulger trial opens in Boston, prosecutor describes a 'hands-on killer'
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