James "Whitey" Bulger Attorneys' File for Appeal

After last weeks sentence came down of two life sentences + five years, Whitey Bulger was shuffled off to jail, but he would not go silently. Even though he stuck with the crime code of silence through out his trail and even at his sentencing, his attorneys did the talking for him.

Late Wednesday a one sentence appeal was filed in court, stating that it was against the law to imprison Bulger for he was acting as an informant for a federal-prosecutor who granted him immunity, and was okayed by the prosecutor to commit the crimes that he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison for.

Bulger calls the trial a sham, and his attorneys are saying that it is unfair they were unable to use the testimony of the federal prosecutor that supposedly gave him the ok to commit these crimes, due the fact that he was dead.

From most accounts it sounds like the appeal will probably go over like a led balloon. Whitey's handlers were corrupt federal agents taking bribes from him, so even if they were to testify it probably would not hold a lot of weight.

James "Whitey" Bulger Sentenced

Like with most Crime Bosses of this century, James "Whitey" Bulger found himself looking at an indictment that would threaten life in prison.


And on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, Judge Denise Casper, took the pleasure of putting the crime boss away with a sentence of two consecutive life terms plus five years. Before the Judge handed down the sentence she expressed her displeasure, "The testimony of human suffering that you and your associates inflicted on others was at times agonizing to hear and painful to watch,"

The two life sentences came from an indictment of racketeering that included murder, extortion, money-laundering and weapons charges. Of 19 slayings the prosecution was accusing Whitey of, the jury found him guilty of 11. 

On Wednesday, the court got to hear from a dozen people with victim impact statements. Most were people that were directly affected by his criminal activities including family of slaying victims -- calling him a punk, a terrorist, a sociopath and even Satan. 

Whitey was a rare crime boss. He ran a criminal organization, but unlike most bosses he was hands on. He ordered and joined in on criminal activity on a regular basis including murder. Although Whitey thought of himself as a modern day Robbin Hood, his criminal activity effected all walks of life even the innocent. 

Much of the public never thought the FBI would ever catch up to the 84 year old, especially after making it on the lamb for 16 years before he was finally picked up. Just under Osama Bin Laden, Whitey spent many years on the FBI top ten most wanted list. In 2001, FBI found him in a Santa Monica, Cal. hideaway with his girlfriend.

Possibly what kept Whitey's rain of terror lasting for so long is his corrupt FBI handler, Former Boston FBI agent John Connolly Jr. So long as Whitey was informing on the New England mob, Whitey's rivals, Connolly Jr. would tip off Whitey anytime there was trouble coming his way to help him stay one step in front of the law and his rivals.  

There is still a lot of money missing that the authorities probably will never find. A gangster like Whitey, who after hearing all of the evidence against him still maintained his innocent and called the whole trail a shame, someone so true to his roots will die with his money.    

Detroit Gangsters: Kilpatrick and Ferguson

Kwame Kilpatrick

He received a 28 year sentence on charges that range from extrotion, racketeering, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, rigging contract bids and filing false tax returns. Of 30 charges brought upon Kilpatrick 24 of them stuck. It is said that Kilpatrick was living well beyond his means and was lining his pockets and his friends and families pockets with millions while the city hobbled along in poverty. Kilpatrick's lawyer has argued for the justice system to hear the case again - a plea that was denied. Needless to say the city of Detroit is happy to know that this wanna be Tony Soprano will be locked up for a long time.

Bobby Ferguson

Ferguson received 22 years in prison for his role in Detroit corruption - charges were much the same as Kilpatrick's charges. Ferguson, a contractor, is said to have ran many small businesses out of business due to his corruption and bid rigging tactics. With the help of Kilpatick, he is said to have unjustly landed somewhere around 73 million dollars in contracts. Ferguson's lawyers also tried to have his case heard again claiming most of the testimony was hear say - but like with Kilpatrick, his case was also denied. Ferguson spoke at his sentencing, but his strong silent mobster image he portrayed was lost. He spoke for ten minutes, mostly rambling and even reading scripture out of his bible he clutched in his hands. Wanna be #2 Tony Soprano will be spending his next 22 years in federal prison. 

Bernard Kilpatrick

B. Kilpatrick, Kwamye's dad,  will be sentenced today for lying on his taxes. At the age of 73 his defense claims he should only receive 15 to 21 months in prison, but prosecution are seeking 27 to 33 months, his defense says the prosecution is trying to tack on to his sentence due to his sons crimes.     







Unfortunately, Both K. Kilpatrick and B. Ferguson is being asked to pay back retution money, but no one knows where this money will come from - by most accounts the city of Detroit can probably forget about seeing any of that money.