Whitey Bulger Research Paper

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Whitey Bulger, or James Joseph Bulger Jr. was born on September 3, 1929, Dorchester,

Massachusetts, U.S.A. who was an American crime boss as the head of the Boston-area Winter

Hill Gang. A notorious crime organization from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s and later on

until his capture in June 2011 and cited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as one of the

most wanted fugitives. Bulger started committing crime acts in his teenage years where he was

involved in a street gang and was arrested for several charges such as forgery, assault, and battery.

(The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, Cunnigham, & Lehr, 2015). Moreover, he was skilled

at evading severe consequences for his wrongdoings which gave him an entitlement of being

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