The Herald has appealed after the FBI refused to release public information in the case of Whitey BULGER.
“At the outset, it needs no belaboring that the Bureau has long sought to conceal evidence of its own conduct with respect to the subject of the Herald’s (records) request, one James Joseph (Whitey) Bulger, Jr.,” Herald attorney and columnist Jeffrey Robbins wrote in the appeal.
“Its efforts in concealing this information have substantially enabled it to keep its conduct secret, even though that conduct has proximately resulted in the killing of numerous innocent people, whose families have been deprived of the basic information about how the Bureau, acting in collusion with Mr. Bulger, did what they did, and did it for so long,” the appeal continues.
The appeal, filed April 10, is in response to the FBI rejection in late March to a request for records related to Bulger’s case, which the Herald filed under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Act. There are still many questions about the FBI file of Bulger. Bulger was found guilty in 2013 of 11 murders, as well as extortion and money laundering. He also had convictions for drug dealing, firearms, and drug dealing.
