First they got Bin Laden, and now…
…long-sought Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Who’s next?
The wheels of justice grind slow. But the ad campaign that finally got Whitey ground pretty fast; it seems to have been a question (literally) of “cherchez la femme” [emphasis mine]:
Bulger and [girlfriend] Grieg were scheduled to make an appearance in Los Angeles federal court Thursday. He faces a series of federal charges including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, narcotics distribution, extortion and money laundering, while the 60-year-old Greig is charged with harboring a fugitive. He was on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list for his alleged role in 19 murders.
The arrest brings an end to a manhunt that received worldwide attention as the FBI received reported sightings of Bulger and Greig from all over the United States and parts of Europe…On Monday, the FBI announced a new publicity campaign and accompanying public service ad that asked people, particularly women, to be on the lookout for Greig. The 30-second ad started running Tuesday in 14 television markets to which Bulger may have ties and was to air during programs popular with women roughly Greig’s age.
One of the happiest guys in the world at this news has got to be Boston columnist/talk show host Howie Carr. And sure enough, he is. Howie has written two books about Whitey, one that just came out, and he’s not a guy to avoid crowing.
Neo on Howie Carr:
he’s not a guy to avoid crowing.
That is the understatement of the week.
Bulger’s pol/thug youger brother was President of the MA Senate and then of U Mass Amherst (1996-2004). He refused to cooperate with the FBI for years. The Irish crime families have their version of Omerta, too.
For a highly sanitized biography of the younger brother see,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Bulger
Who’s next?
Hoffa?
D.B. Cooper?
Elvis?
Mary Malone?
Amelia Earhart & Noonan?
(notice how spell checker knows her but not him)
Moriarty?
“Alfie” Hinds?
Alfréd Wetzler? (no, he got away…)
SÅ‚awomir Rawicz? (no, he got away…)
Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov?
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar?
Matteo Messina “Diabolic” Denaro
Joseph Kony & Okot Odhiambo & Dominic Ongwen?
Omid Tahvili?
Joaquin Guzman?
Aribert Heim?
Chief Ratko Mladic (whoops i think they caught him)
And one who must be a fav of Nicholas Cage whose character converted him into something that helps Americans hate themselves (2005 film Lord of War): Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (who is kind of caught, but will the net hold?)
Georg Fischer (Alois Brunner)?
[Olga Horak describes some things…]
Sé¸ren Kam may still be around… helped by Gudrun Burwitz and her network Stille Hilfe (Silent Aid)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stille_Hilfe
Mikhail Gorshkow?
Veljko Kadijević? (last seen in Florida in 2007)
Protais Mpiranya? (if your traveling in Zimbabwe be on the lookout for this Rwandan)
Aribert Ferdinand “Dr Death” Heim? (might be seen in a mosque since conversion)
Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman? (i guess not, as once they found out that it was Christians being massacred, the whole save Darfur thing kind of fell apart) same for Ahmed Mohammed Haroun…
So many people to find…
Artfldgr, thanks for the list. Most on the list I was not aware of. Coincidentally, I can connect two of the not-common surnames on the list with people I know. I didn’t realize people I knew had such possible connections.
Keyser Sé¶ze? Oh, riiiiiight. He doesn’t exist.
Commentary has a piece on Romney’s role in taking down Bulgar’s brother. There’s a good bit of background for those unfamiliar with the case.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/06/23/bulger%E2%80%99s-arrest-romney/
Judge Crater