Bulger writes on the verso of a photograph of Johnny Depp on the set of Black Mass, a 2015 movie about Bulger.

During his career in organized crime in Boston from the 1970s to the 1990s, Bulger had FBI Agents John Morris and John Connolly on his payroll. From 1977, Morris was in charge of the Organized Crime Squad in Boston. Morris agreed to testify for prosecutors, and Connolly was convicted in 1999 in federal court of accepting bribes, falsifying reports, and racketeering and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was convicted in 2008 in Florida of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

JAMES “WHITEY” BULGER, Photograph with Autograph Endorsement, to “Cisco,” ca. 2016-2018. Photograph of Johnny Depp portraying Bulger in 2015 movie Black Mass, 4" x 6". Russian URL imprinted over photograph; note on verso very legible; very good.

Complete Transcript
Cisco  / John Morris Head of Organized Crime Squad in Boston and on my Payroll!
Johnny Depp all made up in movie about me. Once I looked just like he does now in this movie.
The movie started out way back in “94” or “93.” I was paying 2 FBI agents for information about cases involving me. Any info on people feeding info to Office of FBI Organized Crime investigation of me and criminal associates. This went on for years we got information and they got money. We bought they sold & Simple as that except the Head of Organize Crime Office could see trouble ahead the files created to Cover his & J. C.- Morris angles for position gets his story in first gets “Immunity” Testifys & hangs fellow Agent J.C. and money taker J. C. who is now serving 40 years in Fla State Prison for part in murder. He tries to silence me with tip to Reporter I was Bad. Hopes Im killed & silenced – fails. At my trial my atty discounted his lies & fraudulent file. Morris falls apart when my atty asks him about asking James Bulger to kill his wife! Cont on (2) picture of room

>James “Whitey” Bulger (1929-2018) was born in Massachusetts into an Irish-American family and grew up in poverty. Unlike his siblings, Bulger was drawn to street life and early in his criminal career, the police nicknamed him “Whitey” because of his blond hair. He grew up in South Boston and was a member of a street gang. From 1948 to 1952, he served in the U.S. Air Force. In 1956, he began his first term in federal prison in Atlanta for armed robbery and truck hijacking. While there, he participated in the MK-ULTRA program, which used inmates to research mind-control drugs in exchange for reduced sentences. He was given LSD and other drugs. After serving nine years in federal prisons in Georgia, Kansas, California, and Pennsylvania, Bulger received a parole in 1965. He returned to Boston and organized crime. From 1972, he was a leader of the Winter Hill Gang in South Boston that specialized in bookmaking and loan sharking but used violence and murder to maintain discipline. In the early 1970s, Bulger became an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and used that role to eliminate his rivals in organized crime. During the 1980s, Bulger forced drug dealers to pay him protection money to operate in Boston. Made aware of an impending indictment for racketeering, Bulger fled Boston in January 1995 with his girlfriend Catherine Grieg (b. 1951). Over the next sixteen years, Bulger was in hiding, spending twelve of those years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was arrested in Santa Monica, California, in June 2011 and tried in Boston. Convicted of the murder of eleven people, Bulger was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, plus five years, and a fine of more than $44 million. In 2104, he was sent to a federal penitentiary in Sumterville, Florida. In October 2018, he was transferred to prison facilities in Oklahoma and then West Virginia. The morning after his arrival at prison in West Virginia, he was found beaten to death by other inmates.

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