Verdict in Bulger trial reached. edit: ANNOUNCED

[elleng]

Source: msnbc

guilty of racketeering and conspiracy AND MURDER!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/james-whitey-bulger-verdict.html?hp

Read more: Link to source

[sharp_stick]

1. Thanks for the heads up. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

2. Whitey might still be hanging in Santa Monica if not for his Obama hate

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Whitey-Bulgers-racist-reaction-to-President-Barack-Obama-helped-lead-to-his-capture-190817391.html

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. How about that?

Whitey and Howie Carr have something in common.

[Scurrilous]

8. Heh!

[Bozita]

9. Good post!

I didn't know that.

[alp227]

3. WBZ-TV live coverage

http://boston.cbslocal.com/live-video/

WBZ-AM is also covering it live, available on the Tunein app.

Verdict is being read - GUILTY on some counts, some murders "not proven" due to non unanimous juries.

WBUR and WGBH, the 2 boston public radio stations, covering it live. WRKO is still on the Rush Limbaugh Show rather than breaking news mode.

WBZ-TV is showing a live twitter feed on screen because no camera is allowed the courtroom apparently

[Lithos]

4. Guilty

(New York Times breaking)

[Eugene]

5. Boston gangster ‘Whitey’ Bulger found guilty of gangland crimes, including 11 slayings

Source: Associated Press

Boston gangster ‘Whitey’ Bulger found guilty of gangland crimes, including 11 slayings

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, August 12, 2:34 PM

BOSTON — James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.

Bulger, 83, showed no reaction upon hearing the verdict, which brought to a close a case that not only transfixed the city with its grisly violence but exposed corruption inside the Boston FBI and an overly cozy relationship between the bureau and its underworld snitches.

Bulger was charged primarily with racketeering, a catchall offense that listed 33 criminal acts — among them, 19 murders that he allegedly helped orchestrate or carried out himself during the 1970s and ‘80s while he led the Winter Hill Gang, Boston’s ruthless Irish mob. The racketeering charge also included acts of extortion, conspiracy, money-laundering and drug dealing.

After 4½ days of deliberations, the jury decided he took part in 11 of those murders, along with nearly all the other crimes, as well as a laundry list of other counts including possession of machine guns.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jury-heads-into-5th-day-of-deliberations-in-racketeering-trial-of-reputed-crime-boss-bulger/2013/08/12/36dedfe2-0318-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html

[alp227]

7. Boston Globe: ‘Whitey’ Bulger found guilty of murder, racketeering

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2013/08/12/bulgerverdict/3vP29WkTkRtUEJ7cyCv5FL/story.html

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. “This trial was not the forum to expose and condemn that F.B.I. conduct,”

[Recursion]

11. 11 murder counts. Wow

Go FBI.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. Big deal, the FBI knew all about him decades ago.

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From the link in the OP

"The verdict delivers long-delayed justice to Mr. Bulger, 83, who disappeared in the mid-1990s after a corrupt agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation told him he was about to be indicted. He left behind a city that wondered if he would ever be caught — and even if the F.B.I., which had been complicit in many of his crimes and had relied on him as an informer, was really looking for him.

“This was the worst case of corruption in the history of the F.B.I.,” said Michael D. Kendall, a former federal prosecutor who investigated some aspects of Mr. Bulger’s activities. “It was a multigenerational, systematic alliance with organized crime, where the F.B.I. was actively participating in the murders of government witnesses, or at least allowing them to occur.”
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I suspect not much has changed.

CC