Mob Talk at Bulger Trial

Wednesday, 10 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The Boston Globe puts a rat-a-tat exchange from the Whitey Bulger trial on its front page this morning. Bulger, who is on trial for racketeering, had a heated back-and-forth with a star witness for the prosecution, which ended in a string of expletives that sounded straight out of a mob movie. It started with Bulger’s response to Kevin Weeks, a former protege of the gangster, who told the courtroom about a deal he made to testify:

Bulger: “You suck.”
Weeks: “[Expletive] you, okay.”
Bulger: “[Expletive] you, too”
Weeks: “What do you want to do?