Money Circus: Whitey Bulger, Kennedy and the Mafia
Returning to Whitey Bulger, an Irish mobster, killing with the assistance of a squad of the FBI, dedicated to his service by Robert Kennedy and J Edgar Hoover, with the express aim of removing the Italian competition. Why only now, in his eighties, has Whitey been fingered. Did his FBI minders of the past four decades lose track of him? The two American journalists interviewed on Irish radio said he was already pleading senility and was certain to escape trial. He has been ‘discovered’ now so that the FBI can close the book on a sorry chapter, while saying that they did, eventually, get their man. The Irish radio presenter had no questions about the extent of the Irish mob, what became of Bulger's organization, the surprising parallels with the origins of the Kennedy family fortune. A someone living in Dublin during a the biggest financial and political crisis since the decade of Boulger's birth, I can tell you, the Irish don’t ask awkward questions of each other. They’ve learned to stick together. On both sides of the Atlantic. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Very honest and refreshing piece raising points that normally are left ignored or swept under the rug. Well done.
Informative and revealing piece.
Informative and honest piece - thank you for discussing what is almost always ignored or has been conveniently forgotten.
Money Circus: Whitey Bulger, Kennedy and the Mafia
Returning to Whitey Bulger, an Irish mobster, killing with the assistance of a squad of the FBI, dedicated to his service by Robert Kennedy and J Edgar Hoover, with the express aim of removing the Italian competition. Why only now, in his eighties, has Whitey been fingered. Did his FBI minders of the past four decades lose track of him? The two American journalists interviewed on Irish radio said he was already pleading senility and was certain to escape trial. He has been ‘discovered’ now so that the FBI can close the book on a sorry chapter, while saying that they did, eventually, get their man. The Irish radio presenter had no questions about the extent o
f the Irish mob, what became of Bulger's organization, the surprising parallels with the origins of the Kennedy family fortune. A someone living in Dublin during a the biggest financial and political crisis since the decade of Boulger's birth, I can tell you, the Irish don’t ask awkward questions of each other. They’ve learned to stick together. On both sides of the Atlantic. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Very honest and refreshing piece raising points that normally are left ignored or swept under the rug. Well done.
Informative and revealing piece.
Informative and honest piece - thank you for discussing what is almost always ignored or has been conveniently forgotten.