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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Grand Jury to Investigate Bulger's Secret Life in California.

Federal authorities have issued subpoenas to at least two people in California who knew Bulger, according to media reports.

A federal grand jury in Boston is investigating the 16-year period when James "Whitey" Bulger and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, were fugitives living in California, according to the Boston Globe. According to the Globe, the FBI has issued at least two subpoenas: one to Bulger and Greig's former property manager in Santa Monica, and one to someone who knew the couple during their time in California. The federal investigation could lead to further charges against Bulger and Greig, the Globe reports. Bulger, a reputed South Boston mob boss who faces charges on 19 counts of murder in addition to other charges, was arrested on June 22 in Santa Monica and brought to Boston for trial.  Greig, who lived with Bulger in California, faces charges …

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

What Winter Hill Thinks of Whitey

Whitey had nothing to do with it: Winter Hill natives talk about their neighborhood and the Winter Hill Gang.

If you grew up in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville during the 1960s and 1970s, chances are you’d have fond memories of more innocent times, despite the gangland slayings that occurred every once in awhile in your neighborhood. In 1980, Sal Sperlinga, a Winter Hill Gang member, was shot dead in Magoun Square. If you ask Somerville residents, it was because he wanted to keep a drug dealer out of the neighborhood. Today, Somerville's mayor, Joseph Curtatone, 45, remembers that incident because as a young teenager he was taking guitar lessons on Washington Street when, suddenly, heavily armed law enforcement officials stormed the area to arrest Sperlinga's convicted killer, Dan Moran. But beyond that, said Curtatone, gang-related …

Mary

10:07 pm on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I never locked my doors when I lived in Somerville and my father always said the guys on winter Hill were good guys a safe family neighborhood,The Sperlinga's the McLean's the guys on the hill all good people with very nice families, we go way back ,Whitey Bulger was not the WINTER HILL GANG!!   more ›

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