Whitey Bulger’s Life on the Lam: Rage and Dementia?

When news of James “Whitey” Bulger’s arrest on Wednesday evening first hit, his choice of Santa Monica, California as a hideout came as almost as big a surprise as the end to his 16 years as a fugitive. Bulger, a former crime boss who fled Boston in 1995 as he was about to be arrested for murder, extortion and drug dealing, had spent years on the FBI’s most wanted list

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Ex-prosecutor admits he lied about Polanski case

A retired prosecutor whose comments in a 2008 HBO documentary threatened to derail a 31-year-old sex case against film director Roman Polanski now says he lied. David Wells told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that he “buttered up” his role in the Polanski case for the documentary crew.

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