Whitey Bulger, the famed mobster who led Boston’s Winter Hill gang in the 1970s and 1980s, was given two life sentences plus five years in prison Thursday, ending a trial that closed the book on a bygone era of organized crime.
Judge Denise Casper said Bulger, who was as convicted of 11 murders, money laundering, extortion and weapons charges in August, committed “almost unfathomable,” and “heinous” crimes that were”all about money.” Bulger, who denied angrily during the trial that he had ever been an FBI informant, looked directly at her as he was sentenced, the Associated Press reports.
“The testimony of human suffering that you and your associates inflicted on others was at times agonizing to hear and painful to watch,” Casper said.
Relatives of Bulger’s victims testified during the sentencing phase in an emotional day in court on Wednesday.
[AP]