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Notorious Boston Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger Found Dead In Prison

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Notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was killed in the West Virginia prison he had been recently transferred to. Bulger led the Winter Hill gang and eventually became an FBI informant. He was arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the run and and sentenced to life in prison in a 2013 conviction on numerous crimes.

Here & Now's Robin Young gets the latest from David Boeri (@davidboeri), who covered Bulger for WBUR.

This segment aired on October 30, 2018.

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