The Brothers Bulger (217-279)

SUMMARY

By 1988, the Bulgers were at the top of their games. Whitey began to sell cocaine as well as protect his fellow sellers. Billy, still served as the unelected governor of Massachusetts. He was the King of the Hill (Beacon Hill). Both made money off the hook. For more than a decade, the Boston Office of the FBI had done Whitey's bidding; vice versa. At the time, pretty much every person who was wealthy in Massachusetts was a crook, drunk and a cheat. John Morris, the head of the public corruption unit was losing the respect he earned by the Mass population and his only way to redeem himself was through exposing the corrupt marriage of Whitey Bulger and the FBI. Reporters from the globe interviewed Billy and the irascible Whitey went berserk. He knew it was Morris that ratted him out. Because he was Whitey's brother, Billy's career began to crash, resulting in his terrible depression. Over time, nothing positively really changed for either of the Bulgers and Whitey was to blame for both of their shame.


QUOTE

"Whitey and Billy would be the twin symbols of the corruption and profligacy of the last eight years. Billy's thirty years in that was legislature were suddenly an afterthought; his only identity was as the brother of 'cocaine dealer Whitey Bulger'" (Carr 249).


RESPONSE

Opposite brothers effected eachother's lives. Billy was not recognized as the state legislature any more. He was noticed as the political brother of Whitey. Whitey... the drug dealer, the murderer, the psychopath. Although Billy may have done a mayriad of good things, it was as if nothing mattered. As a result of this, Billy became depressed. Life for Billy would never change back to the way it used to be.