Whitey Bulger gets life plus five years

[graywarrior]

Live blog

http://live.boston.com/Event/Whitey_Bulger_sentencing_-_live_blog

[frazzled]

1. Ewww ... does that mean they keep him in a cell

for five years after he's ... expired?

[graywarrior]

2. On display

[Jamaal510]

6. +1

[Eugene]

3. U.S. judge sentences mobster 'Whitey' Bulger to two life terms

Source: Reuters

U.S. judge sentences mobster 'Whitey' Bulger to two life terms

BY SCOTT MALONE
BOSTON Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:58am EST

(Reuters) - Convicted mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will spend the rest of his life in prison after a U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced him to serve two life terms plus five years for crimes he committed, including 11 murders.

"The scope, the callousness, the depravity of your crimes are almost unfathomable," U.S. District Judge Denise Casper told Bulger, 84, who was convicted in August on charges including racketeering, extortion, drug dealing and other crimes as he ran Boston's Winter Hill crime gang in the 1970s and '80s.

Bulger stood silently, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit over a long-sleeved T-shirt, as his sentence was read.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-usa-crime-bulger-idUSBRE9AC0IF20131114

[JNelson6563]

4. Well he's 84 yrs old...

So whatever that sentence is worth. Sure took 'em long enough to convict the guy.

Julie

[graywarrior]

5. No kidding!

I hope he lives to be 120