Whitey Bulger Found Guilty of Murder
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster who spent 16 years on the lam before , was found guilty of multiple murders and racketeering by a federal jury in Boston on Monday.
Facing 32 charges, Bulger was convicted on most of them, including 11 murders that date back to the ’70s and multiple counts of extortion and money laundering.
Shelley Murphy, co-author of Cullen’s book, the 83-year-old Bulger may be sentenced to life “because of [the] guilty verdict on slayings.”
The judge presiding over the case set a sentencing hearing for Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. ET.
The jury handed down its verdict on its fifth day of deliberations.