they was it is the city that needed the closure. the families really needed the closures, and unfortunately some of them did not get that, because there were eight murders he was charged with in which seven of them the jury said that the government had not proved the case the they didn t say he was not guilty. in the case of debby davis, one of the two women he was charged with they could not reach a finding at all. you talk about the donohue family, michael donohue s murder proved, as you say that he didn t just kill other gangsters. for their own sake i want yeah, i do not like establishing a hierarchy of victims. as far as i m concerned, whitey bulger didn t have the right to kill anybody, but the donohues stand out for a number of
reasons. michael donohue was an innocent man. he was a truck driver. yeah, he gave a ride home to a guy and the fbi told whitey, so whitey went to kill this guy. frankly he didn t care who he killed at the time. and those three little boys are now three grown men, michael jr., shawn and tommy. they were there yesterday hugging their mother, pat, a lady of extraordinary integrity and class. she raised those kids without her husband. they got some justice yesterday. they want more justice. unfortunately their case was actually thrown out. they sued the government and they won initially and actually were awarded $6 million. an appeals court decided they needed to read the newspaper more closely and said they should have filed the claim one year earlier. kevin, i need to keep you brief before we move on. but i just want to ask you before we let you go. you describe it as almost become