welcome back. this is a day many, many family members have been waiting tech ka decades to see the fate. the verdict has come down for reputed mob boss james whitey bulger. you see all the people awaiting the crush to come out of the federal courtroom which is where we now know the verdict has been read. whitey bulger, the trial has been going on for two months. jury has been deliberating the last five days. they have just reached a verdict in this trial. you see on the screen whitey bulger found guilty. the two counts we are really watching for, these are the counts. he faces possible maximum life in prison. again, we say the caveat, this man is 83 years of age. but the racketeering conspiracy and the racketeering substantive offense, he has been found guilty on both that count 1 and count 2. ashleigh banfield is joining me for this breaking news coverage
certainly never become a rat. you don t testify against your own. i think that s what s been so fascinating about this case is that you have people that just testified against their former friend and colleague and basically said this is somebody that i cared about. this is a friend. but this is someone who kbh committed murder and i committed murder with him. so it s just oftentimes in these big cases, these big mafia cases, in organized crime cases, you just don t see them testify against each other the way you did here. in such an emotional way. it really has been fascinating. just in case you are joining us, breaking news here in the reputed mob boss whitey bulger, james whitey bulger trial. jury has now come back on these two counts. he faces counts 1 through 32. count 1, racketeering, conspiracy, faces up to life. guilty. count 2, racketeering, substantive offense, guilty.
for sure he will appeal this case. but in looking at this verdict and in following this case, i mean, i don t think that there will be anything that is successful in terms of releasing whitey bulger from prison. i mean, he s already been found fwlt of count 1 rb racketeering, conspiracy. he s been found guilty of count 2, the racketeering substantive offense. then there are a bunch of other things he s been found guilty of in connection with count 2. even on appeal, if you challenge one or two of these substantive offenses, you re still dealing with significant amount of time here. so i think, you know, what s also, ashleigh, interesting about this is that you re right. it s so difficult to try these cases 10, 20 years down the line. especially because people s memories fade. they re afraid to testify. some of them have died. and it really is sunny, not to mention what we see in trials today with
in. i m sure if there were cameras in the courtroom, if they were allowed in federal court, you would people would be, you know, fascinated with the type of life that this man has led. all right. well, again, if you re just joining us, we ve been following the breaking news out of boston. the verdict is back in the federal trial against whitey bulger. the jury has found him guilty of the two largest counts. count one, racketeering conspiracy. count two, racketeering substantive offense. we re going to be back with much more after this. alón rojo, is kicking off fun and fitness on and off the field, with the help of soccer stars. these free clinics, help kids gain confidence in their game, and learn how important it is to get moving every day. it s part of our goal to inspire more than 3 million people, to re-discover the joy of being active this summer. see the difference all of us can make. together.
over 35 days. by the way, those are 35 trial days. that s not 35 consecutive days. that s a lot of weeks these jurors have been at it. let me jump in, ashleigh. we just learned count one, one of the two biggies we re watching, count one, racketeering, conspiracy, guilty. wow. just getting this in my ear. thank you. count two, guilty as well. so on both of these, guilty. guilty, count 1. racketeering, conspiracy. sentencewise, possible life. count 2, racketeering substantive offense. possible sentence, maximum life. let me try to sort through all of this as we re watching for this. again, we have crews in this courtroom because i know we all want to hear the color of this 82-year-old sitting here, really his legacy. we talk so much about this. has been on the line for him. he s been fighting that he wasn t an fbi informant. fighting some of these, you know, these murder counts.