were able to get these people, these victims, and when he was testifying, erin, he did it in a way that was so cold blooded that you really felt that there was simply no emotion involved. the only time you really got emotional is when he said well i m testifying, because whitey bulger broke my heart. he broke our loyalty once he decided or once it became known that he was an fbi informant, erin. and deb, quickly i know you heard about the relationship between the fbi agent john connally who was convicted of helping bulger avoid arrest and whitey s brother. this fbi agent had a relationship with whitey s brother. what did you learn about that? absolutely. and not only that it s john martorano who helped put john connally, the rogue fbi agent away. martorano testified when john connally came back he thanked bulger s brother billy who was a very powerful politician here in boston, and when connally said, look, if there s anything i can do for you and bulger said, the brother, billy bu
and deb, quickly i know you heard about the relationship between the fbi agent john connally who was convicted of helping bulger avoid arrest and whitey s brother. this fbi agent had a relationship with whitey s brother. what did you learn about that? absolutely. and not only that it s john martorano who helped put john connally, the rogue fbi agent away. martorano testified when john connally came back he thanked bulger s brother billy who was a very powerful politician here in boston, and when connally said, look, if there s anything i can do for you and bulger said, the brother, billy bulger said, keep whitey out of trouble. and that began a relationship that many feel not only flourished but allowed this criminal enterprise to reach heights there could not have had there not been that kind of intimate cooperation between whitey bulger the crime boss with john connally that rogue fbi agent and he s now serving 40 years in state prison because he tipped off whitey that somebody w
that if the car tried to escape or if the police came that he would throw his car in the middle. they talk about masks. they talk about the way they were able to get these people, these victims, and when he was testifying, erin, he did it in a way that was so cold blooded that you really felt that there was simply no emotion involved. the only time you really got emotional is when he said well i m testifying, because whitey bulger broke my heart. he broke our loyalty once he decided or once it became known that he was an fbi informant, erin. and deb quickly i know you heard about the relationship between the fbi agent john connally who was convicted of helping bulger avoid arrest and whitey s brother. this fbi agent had a relationship with whitey s brother. what did you learn about that? absolutely. and not only that it s john martorano who helped put john connally, the rogue fbi agent away. martorano testified when john connally came back he thanked bulger s brother billy who was
metamucil. 3 amazing benefits, 1 super fiber. welcome back to hardball. next week in boston a jury selection begins in a highly anticipated trial of whitey bulger the notorious leader of the winter hill gang sort of irish mafia for his alleged role in 19 murders, extortion, loan sharking, and trafficking narcotics charges. whitey bulger is considered both folk hero and criminal sometimes both at the same time in south boston especially. his brother billy was a major politician in the senate up there in massachusetts and jack nicholson s role in the departed was loosely based on bulger. here is a clip from that movie. when i was your age they would say you could become cops or criminals. what i m saying to you is this. when you re facing a loaded gun,
albanian kids had to sing irish songs in school. there is nothing worse to the irish consciousness than being a rat, informer. that s what this guy became. let s talk about whitey. i know his brother billy. he was a big senate president up there. almost like angels with dirty faces the old movie from the 30s where one guy goes the right way and the other the wrong way. very much. is there really an attitude in southy i don t care how tough the kids are even as grown-ups but is there really an attitude the only difference between being on the side of the law and against the law is there isn t any difference? i think that existed back in the day. i think when he came to power there were a lot of people that believed that and bought the robin hood bologna but that doesn t exist anymore. the people that believe that, you know, i would compare them to the mother of the chechen bombers who says her sons are innocent. crazy talk. i like charles tan, a little different part of the t