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Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger's possessions to go under gavel
Source: Reuters
World | Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:07am EDT
Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger's possessions to go under gavel
BOSTON | BY SCOTT MALONE
A sterling silver skull ring, a library of crime books and dozens of rolls of paper towels seized from the apartment where the FBI caught former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will be auctioned this weekend to raise money for his victims.
Bulger ruled Boston's underworld for a quarter-century before fleeing the city in 1994 after a corrupt FBI agent tipped him that arrest was imminent. He survived 16 years on the lam - many of them atop the bureau's "Ten Most Wanted List" - before agents arrested him in a seaside Santa Monica, California, apartment, where he had $800,000 in cash and a small arsenal of weapons.
All of the 86-year-old gangster's possessions save the weapons will be shown in Boston on Friday at a preview of a Saturday auction, managed by Gaston & Sheehan.
The items to go under the gavel range from the macabre - a pencil cup shaped like a rat, the term Bulger used for his victims who talked with police - to the mundane, including three pairs of identical unworn sneakers still in their boxes and 30 rolls of paper towels.
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Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger's possessions to go under gavel
BOSTON | BY SCOTT MALONE
A sterling silver skull ring, a library of crime books and dozens of rolls of paper towels seized from the apartment where the FBI caught former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will be auctioned this weekend to raise money for his victims.
Bulger ruled Boston's underworld for a quarter-century before fleeing the city in 1994 after a corrupt FBI agent tipped him that arrest was imminent. He survived 16 years on the lam - many of them atop the bureau's "Ten Most Wanted List" - before agents arrested him in a seaside Santa Monica, California, apartment, where he had $800,000 in cash and a small arsenal of weapons.
All of the 86-year-old gangster's possessions save the weapons will be shown in Boston on Friday at a preview of a Saturday auction, managed by Gaston & Sheehan.
The items to go under the gavel range from the macabre - a pencil cup shaped like a rat, the term Bulger used for his victims who talked with police - to the mundane, including three pairs of identical unworn sneakers still in their boxes and 30 rolls of paper towels.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-bulger-idUSKCN0ZA20Q