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What to Do With Billy Bulger |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: David A. Mittell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,590 Words, 15,904 Characters |
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Imagine a big city's most notorious gangster--the killer of more people (22) than Billy the Kid--controlling a regional FBI office as a double-dealing informant and, through his younger brother, the president of the state Senate, also controlling much of the politics of the state. Though it sounds incredible, all but the very last part of that scenario is accepted as a certainty in Boston, Massachusetts. The last part remains uncertain only because the younger brother, who is now president of the University of Massachusetts, has invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify about what he knows.
For 40 years after his release from Alcatraz in the mid-1950s, until his disappearance just after New Year's Day in 1995, James "Whitey" Bulger grew rich. He did so by dealing drugs; extorti...
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...public official who pleads the Fifth has something to hide. While a university president may assert his constitutional right against self-incrimination, it isn't right for one who guides the young to do so. Billy Bulger can refuse to answer questions about his relationship with his brother, but he cannot refuse to do so and continue as the leading light of public higher education in Massachusetts.
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