# James J. Bulger

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/james-bulger/

Sentenced in 1956 for bank robbery and held at Alcatraz from 1959 to 1962; an FBI informant from 1975, a federal court found; a fugitive from late 1994 until June 2011; convicted in 2013 of racketeering, with the jury finding he played a role in eleven murders.

The role line quotes the First Circuit's opening description and the U.S. Attorney's release. The 1950s bank-robbery sentence on the Alcatraz card is a separate matter from the racketeering case. The card's photograph is used here; the card also lists co-defendants in the 1950s case, whom this page does not name.

"Whitey" is from the First Circuit and the U.S. Attorney; "James J. Bulger, Jr." is the Alcatraz card's form. No opened record gives his date of death.

## Sources

- United States v. Bulger, 816 F.3d 137 (1st Cir. 2016): https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3183007/united-states-v-bulger/
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for James J. Bulger, Jr., No. 1428, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236734663), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236734663