Bulger, 89, had been serving his time at the Coleman federal prison in Sumterville. According to the Boston Globe, he had just been transferred to Hazelton federal prison in Bruceton Mills, and authorities are investigating another inmate with Mafia ties in the death.
“James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s criminal activities were marked by the many corpses he and his associates left behind in car trunks, alleyways and empty fields. Apparently, a jury in Miami will never be determining his fate,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement Tuesday.
”His federal life sentence has been ended by someone he was with in prison. Although we never condone the taking of a life, his demise does close a dark chapter in Miami’s recent history.”
In Miami, state prosecutors say Bulger and his henchmen ordered the assassination of John Callahan, an executive at World Jai-Alai who had partnered with the gang to skim money from the operation in 1982. The gangsters were tipped off by Boston FBI Agent John Connolly, who told them Callahan might cooperate with authorities in the probe of an earlier mob murder.
The mobsters dispatched notorious hit man John Martorano to kill Callahan, leaving his corpse in a Cadillac trunk at Miami International Airport. During a riveting trial in Miami in 2008, a host of underworld figures testified against Connolly. That included Martorano — who has long since been released from prison.
Bulger had been Connolly’s informant but corrupted the FBI agent. Their twisted relationship became crime lore in Boston, and served as the loose basis for the 2006 movie “The Departed.” Johnny Depp played Bulger in “Black Mass,” a 2015 film about the gangster.
At the time of the Miami trial against Connolly, Bulger was still a fugitive. However, his presence loomed large throughout weeks of riveting testimony, said retired Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Stanford Blake, who tried the case.
Still, the Callahan family might have wanted to see him held accountable. “A trial would have been some solace to the families,” Blake said.
Miami jurors convicted Connolly of second-degree murder with a firearm, and he is serving a 40-year prison sentence in Florida. He has a possible parole release date of 2039.
With the Callahan probe officially over, his widow hopes FBI agents will finally return his personal belongings seized over three decades ago from his offices as part of the investigation. That includes a gold Rolex watch and his clothes.
Said Mary Jane Callahan: “He would have worn certain things at certain times and that brings back memories.”
Notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead Tuesday at a federal prison in West Virginia. He was still facing a murder charge in Miami. U.S. Marshals via EFE
The Rajput rulers of Jaipur were known for their extravagance, and Jaipur’s City Palace is a many-splendoured testimony to their good taste and aversion to rupee-pinching. Our friend, the travel writer Leslie Woit, describes the special palace access Micato’s guests enjoy:
Puneet, our Travel Director, steers us deftly through a door marked “private,” and into the inner sanctum we step, winding silently through a series of corridors and courtyards, past fountains and chambers, private roof-top pavilions, travelling through the dazzling 18th-century blend of Rajput and Mughal architecture.
Our destination – one of the most exclusive imaginable in all of India – is the private sitting room of the Maharajah of Jaipur, the last reigning monarch of the richest of India’s princely states.
Over Champagne — swiftly proffered and gratefully received, from a silver salver no less — we peruse the bric-a-brac of countless generations of maharajahs and maharanis. Best known to us were the last to reign before ruling rights were abolished in 1949: Man Singh and his third wife Gayatri Devi – he, the glamorous polo-playing jet-setter; she, whom Cecil Beaton called one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world. Among the many polo cups, the marble and crystal objects, a succession of portraits cover the royal gamut from King George and Queen Mary to Camilla and Charles.
An unfathomably long engraved Lalique dining table is framed by coloured mosaic windows, and beneath many silk sofas arranged throughout the length of the ballroom-size space, an ornate parquet floor is overlaid with priceless Indian rugs. And there, installed rather casually at the far end, a solid silver throne weighing many hundreds of pounds. Bubbles? I’ve sipped my share. But in the sultry heat of a Rajasthani afternoon, sipping Champagne while perched on the solid silver throne of a Maharajah…That takes some beating.
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Dark cramped galley kitchen was in need of an up lift with better lighting. Bulk heads were full of plumbing from the second floor that needed to be re-routed to allow taller cabinets and crown molding. Every door way leading to this kitchen was narrow and needed to be widened for better circulation. Wider windows have been installed to allow more light. Taller cherry cabinets with a very detailed crown moldings and corbels with complimenting stone counter tops and tiled floor are some of the features of this job.