"[35]:231232 As they adjourned to a nearby Japanese restaurant, Bulger finally revealed how exhausted he was with life on the run. Casper. He had established a whole other person, Thomas Baxter, with a complete ID and credit cards in that name. Douglas Glenn Cyr was the secret son of Lindsey Cyr and Whitey Bulger, the former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime family based in Boston. Bulger's life had many women - and not just Lindsay Cyr, whose affair with Bulger produced a son, Douglas Glenn Cyr, in 1967. Douglas was hospitalized on a Friday night and by Monday he was brain dead. 1973 Bulger's only son, Douglas Glenn Cyr, dies at age 6 from Reye's Syndrome, a severe reaction to aspirin. Yet at that moment, in that restaurant in New York, I sensed that he had moved to a new place in his mind. He is from MA. [17] As part of the racketeering charges, the jury convicted Bulger of the murders of 11 victimsPaul McGonagle, Edward Connors, Thomas King, Richard Castucci, Roger Wheeler, Brian Halloran, Michael Donahue, John Callahan, Arthur "Bucky" Barrett, John McIntyre, and Deborah Hussey. Tommy, who was a Mullins, made a fist. [122] He testified: "I do not know where my brother is. Lindy was a lifelong Weymouth resident. According to authorities, the arrests were a "direct result" of the media campaign launched by the FBI in fourteen television markets across the country where Bulger and Greig reportedly had ties. Join Facebook to connect with Douglas Glenn and others you may know. His counseling was soon terminated, and he was transferred to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida. Cyr said Bulger called her to say goodbye after he fled . He explained to me that he was involved in loan sharking and gambling, and he was organizing things that were a little dangerous and pregnancy didnt fit. [83] Greig grew up in Boston and had an identical twin sister, Margaret, and a younger brother, David. [12] He was apprehended along with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, outside an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, on June 22, 2011. [35]:167, It would not be until the 1999 cooperation of Weeks that Bulger, by then a fugitive, was conclusively linked to the drug trade by investigators. When Bulger arrived at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson there were other famous inmates there, including Brian David Mitchell, Steven Dale Green and Montoya Snchez.[97]. I could see that a lot of the reports were not just against the Italians. After listening to the pitch, Bulger is said to have responded, "Alright, if they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. There was no way that would be allowed. Having been accused of serving as an informant for the FBI providing information on rival gangs in Boston - a claim Bulger always refuses - he fled in 1994 when tipped off about an upcoming racketeering indictment by a former FBI handler. He repeated the phrase he had used before that a rolling stone gathers no moss, which told me that he knew he was going to be on the move again. Bulger and Flemmi were left out of the indictments. Jimmy walked up and put his arms around me from behind and whispered in my ear, Somebody dies for this, said Lindsey Cyr, Glenn Douglas's mother who revealed, in 2010, her 12-year relationship with the legendary criminal. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Glenn, who now serves as chief financial officer at the Office of Personnel Management, was promoted to the role of deputy CFO at the Defense Department in December 2020, before leaving in. At the end of our dinner, he seemed more aware of everything around him. Even when there were 400 people in the bar, you always knew Louie was there. Connolly frequently boasted to his fellow agents about how he had recruited Bulger at a late-night meeting at Wollaston Beach inside an FBI-issue car. Town of (Primary) Domicile. Bulger hated the name; he preferred to be called "Jim", "Jimmy", or even "Boots". [43]:288289,291293 Federal judge Mark L. Wolf granted Cardinale's motion on May 22, 1997. One year later, on September 8, 1975, Bulger and an unidentified person tossed a Molotov cocktail into the John F. Kennedy birthplace in Brookline in retaliation for Senator Ted Kennedy's vocal support for Boston school desegregation. Historical records matching Douglas Glenn Cyr Douglas Glenn Cyr in Biographical Summaries of Notable People view all Immediate Family. Douglas Cyr, PhD Professor UNC-Chapel Hill Education and Training Roger Williams University, BS, 1984 University of Rhode Island, PhD, 1989 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Postdoctoral, 1993 University of Munich, Postdoctoral, 1995 Areas of Interest Douglas Glenn Deputy Chief Financial Officer Mr. Doug Glenn has served as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) since December 2020. Whitey Bulger. He was tried on thirty-two counts of racketeering, money laundering, extortion and weapons charges, including complicity in nineteen murders. And he was. Roger Williams University, BS, 1984 [101] Prosecutors in Florida and Oklahoma announced after Bulger's conviction that they would wait until after sentencing concluded before deciding whether or not to prosecute Bulger in their states. 1967 May 22, 1967. Bulger drove up with another man armed with a silenced MAC-10; Bulger himself carried a .30 Carbine. Bulger only had one son, Douglas. Bulger was sentenced to a juvenile reformatory for these offenses. Bulger was annoyed when he learned that the IRA members he supplied had burned the van that contained the weapons. [90] After being captured alongside Bulger, Greig sought release on bail and home confinement,[91] a request that was denied. On June 12, 2013, Bulger went on trial in South Boston's John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse before Judge Denise J. Casper on 32 counts of racketeering and firearms possession. He had even joined associations in Baxter's name, building an entire portfolio for the guy. There is simply no other explanation for the transfer of someone in his condition and inmate status to be placed in the general population of one of the country's most violent federal penitentiaries. [31], Bulger and Stanley spent the next three weeks traveling to New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco before Stanley decided that she wanted to return to her children. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. In 1982, a South Boston cocaine dealer named Edward Brian Halloran, known on the streets as "Balloonhead", approached the FBI and stated that he had witnessed Bulger and Flemmi murdering Litif. He wasn't healthy anyway. I want to see him well protected. [52] Thomas Donahue, who was eight years old when his father was murdered, has become a spokesman for the families of those allegedly murdered by the Winter Hill Gang. Infamous Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger was reportedly killed in a West Virginia prison facility the day he arrived. If he needs help getting attorneys and what have you, I'd be happy to help him. In a decision that would prove costly to him, Donahue offered Halloran a ride home. Facebook gives people the power to. Douglas was likely Bulger's only child, according to The Boston Globe. "[35]:206. Bulger and Greig then went on the run together. From the start of his involvement with the FBI, Bulger "insisted that he would never give up the IRA". In return, Connolly, as Bulger's FBI handler, ensured that the Winter Hill Gang were effectively ignored. Mike Cyr + Luke Lecours + Jon Rogers : Steve Collins + Darcy Panet : January 9, 2023: W: Wired Out: Mike Cyr + Luke Lecours + Brett Laing : Darrin Parks + Sean Dunning + Trevor Kennedy : December 19, 2022: W: Crusaders: Mike Cyr + Luke Lecours + Jon Rogers : Phil Garbutt + Paul Hynes + Greg Hunter : [35]:xvixvii In 1997, shortly after The Boston Globe disclosed that Bulger and Flemmi had been informants, Weeks met with Connolly, who showed him a photocopy of Bulger's FBI informant file. After evading the police for 16 years - for twelve of which he was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List - Bulger was finally apprehended in California in 2011. In a 2004 interview, Stanley stated that she was planning to publish her memoirs;[44] however, she died of lung cancer in 2012 at the age of 71.[133]. In response, Bulger fled Boston on December 23, 1994, accompanied by his common-law wife Theresa Stanley. He quietly served a long prison sentence and refused to admit to having paid protection money to Bulger, Flemmi and Weeks. [74] In Oklahoma, where Bulger is alleged to have ordered the killing of businessman Roger Wheeler Sr., in 1981, Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris said, "It is our intention to bring Bulger to justice and to be held accountable for the murder of Mr. By definition, his was a secretive life. Birth of Douglas Glenn Cyr. And now he wanted to kill a friend of Jimmy. [94] Greig's attorney recommended 12 months in prison, while prosecutorsciting Greig's "unrepentant obstruction"asked for 37 months. He had spent 16 years as one of the nation's most wanted fugitives before he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011. However, while awaiting trial in Rhode Island's Wyatt federal prison, Weeks was approached by a fellow inmate, a "made man" in the Patriarca family, who told him, "Kid, what are you doing? I shot Donald.' In 1980 Whitey's mother passed away. They just knocked the people from Southie during busing. The first confirmed sighting of Bulger before his capture was in London in 2002. Welcome to newton st. Cyres pay & play golf course. Douglas was healthy before he died in 1973. [68][69][70], Bulger was captured as a result of the work of the Bulger Fugitive Task Force, which consisted of FBI agents and a Deputy U.S. The Killeens quickly found themselves outgunned and outmaneuvered by the younger Mullens. 111 Mason Farm Road Douglas Glenn Cyr was born on May 22, 1967, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. In the summer of 1983, tensions between the Winter Hill Gang and the Patriarca family escalated to an all-time high. Shortly after that, a week or so before my wedding, Louie was found stuffed into a garbage bag in the trunk of his car, which had been dumped in the South End. [2][3] On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. It would be another six months before it became clearer. 30. Lindsay stated the FBI failed to properly supervise Connolly and "stuck its head in the sand" regarding numerous allegations that Bulger and Flemmi were involved in drug trafficking, murder and other crimes for decades. [5][6][7] Beginning in 1997, press reports exposed various instances of criminal misconduct by federal, state, and local officials with ties to Bulger, causing embarrassment to several government agencies, especially to You're no longer just a bookmaker. [88] The criminal complaint against her alleges that she harbored a fugitive, Whitey Bulger. In June 2012, Greig pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity fraud, receiving a sentence of eight years in prison. I had known all along, however, that it would not be easy for anyone to capture Jimmy. Later in his sentence, he was transferred to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary and, in 1963, to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. Gagauz; ; Kreyl ayisyen; Romn; Simple English; Slovenina To be a successful fugitive you have to cut all contacts from your previous life. Shortly thereafter, on May 13, 1972, Donald Killeen was gunned down outside his home in the suburb of Framingham. I would see, over and over again, that some of these people had been arrested for crimes that were mentioned in these reports. Douglas Glenn Cyr was the secret son of Lindsey Cyr and Whitey Bulger, the former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime family based in Boston. Even after 1983, when Morris was transferred to head up the Boston FBI's anti-drug task force, he remained an accomplice to Connolly and Bulger. As Bulger rose through the ranks of the Winter Hill gang in South Boston, he only had one son, Douglas Glenn Cyr. Partner: Catherine Greig was Whitey's "partner" in avoiding capture. He would rather plead out to a life sentence than put his family through the embarrassment of a trial. "His murder would have been an attack on the system, like attacking freedom of the press, the fabric of the American way of life, and they would have spared no expense to solve the crime. You're out of business. But at the age of 89 roughly five years after he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in 11murders, Bulger was found dead in a West Virginiaprison on Tuesday. After interrogating McIntyre over several hours, however, Bulger decided that he did not have the discipline to cut ties with everyone. [99] Following the verdict, Bulger's attorneys J. W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan vowed to appeal, citing Casper's ruling which prevented Bulger from claiming he had been given immunity. Bulger refused to sanction this, but Litif vowed to proceed. '"[35]:59, Strangely enough, Jimmy, told me, 'Louie's last words to me were a lie.' [97] Whether Bulger was targeted randomly or deliberately is not known. Jimmy was colder. [122] In April 2003, the committee voted "to grant William Bulger immunity to obtain information concerning Whitey's whereabouts and the FBI's misuse of informants. During the mid-1980s, Bulger began to summon drug dealers from in and around Boston to his headquarters. [97] Bulger, who started his imprisonment with a rigorous exercise regime, was by this point using a wheelchair. I certainly always stand by him. [48], In 1995, Bulger and Flemmi were indicted on racketeering charges along with two Boston mafiosi, Frank Salemme and Bobby DeLuca. Youre sitting there looking at someone you consider to be a real gentleman and a very nice person and hes got a history that is bizarre, continued Cyr. Studies on cystic fibrosis identify the ER-quality control machinery that targets CFTR for proteasomal degradation. [51]:221223 Soon after, on May 11, 1982, Bulger, Flemmi, and Weeks were tipped off that Halloran had returned to South Boston. It was too dangerous for him, she said. When their lawyer, Tony Cardinale, learned about this, he realized that the FBI had lied about the basis for the bug in order to protect an informant. Nevertheless, he received an honorable discharge in 1952 and returned to Massachusetts. [31], Weeks stated that, although several plans were considered, all were abandoned because there was too much risk of injuring Carr's wife and children. People familiar with Coin-O-Matic knew exactly who the employee was, but the code of silence was still very strong in South Boston. Edited sky-only version of Scythian Tombs. Sa fortune s lve 10 000,00 euros mensuels Police officers found the employee hanging from a beef rack, having been severely tortured and held for more than six days. However, Bulger instead executed McGonagle's law-abiding brother Donald in a case of mistaken identity. or redistributed. He had been stabbed with an ice pick and shot. Bulger reminisced fondly about his time hiding out with a family in Louisiana. Marshal. [83] He was from a family that led the Mullen Gang and was injured during a mob gunfight in 1969. [citation needed] After meeting with IRA Chief of Staff Joe Cahill, Bulger and Nee raised $1million (equivalent to $2.61million in 2021) "by shaking down drug dealers in South Boston and Charlestown". [21][22][23] In 2022, Fotios Geas, Paul DeCologero and Sean McKinnon were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in Bulger's death.[24][25][26]. This amount was second only to Osama Bin Laden's capture reward on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The results showed that he died of natural causes and that there were no signs of foul play. FBI Special Agent Dennis Condon noted in his log in September 1973 that Bulger and Nee had been heavily shaking down the neighborhood's bookmakers and loan sharks. "Don't worry about it", Bulger responded. In 1988, Bulger's status as an FBI informant was revealed publicly when the Globe's "Spotlight" team, led by journalist Gerard O'Neill, published a story detailing his work with the Bureau while still actively committing crimes. After the 1972 truce, Bulger and the Mullens were in control of South Boston's criminal underworld. Part of me does [still love him]. [citation needed], Greig initially indicated that she would go to trial rather than accept a plea bargain. In 2010, the FBI turned its focus to Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. This earned Shea a legendary reputation in South Boston. Donahue was shot in the head and killed instantly. Bulger, who evaded federal authoritiesfor years prior to his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, Calif., was killed the same day he was moved to the facility. I can't believe he's so chatty right now. The boy, whose mother was Lindsey Cyr, told the newspaper the boy died of Reye's. that Bulger, in exchange for favorable treatment in sentencing, would have much to tell authorities about corruption at the local, state and federal levels, which allowed him to operate his criminal enterprise for so long. During the discovery phase, Salemme and DeLuca were listening to a tape from a roving bug, which is normally authorized when the FBI has no advance knowledge of where criminal activity will take place. "[129] At six years of age, Douglas died from Reye syndrome after having a severe allergic reaction to an aspirin injection. "[122] William said that the only contact with his brother during the fugitive years was a short telephone call in January 1995, shortly after his brother was indicted. His health also declined due to a lack of exercise. He told Weeks, "Every day out there is another day I beat them. In 1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) approached Bulger and attempted to recruit him as an informant as part of their effort against the Patriarca crime family. Step into a world of glamour at Dublin's most stylish townhouse, Number 31. View the profiles of people named Glenn Douglas. 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