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Justice and Judgment Quotes
The Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known simply as RICO, would be used in nearly every major prosecution against the Mafia during the 1980's. (1.4.9)
Community Quotes
Connolly brought something to the table no one else could: [...] he'd grown up in the brick tenement near the Bulgers' in the Old Harbor housing project in South Boston. (1.1.8)
Power Quotes
Connolly, properly obsequious to a neighborhood elder who was also an icon, made his offer: "You should think about using your friends in law enforcement." (1.1.11)
Visions of Southie Quotes
In 1974 a federal court order to bus black students from Roxbury to South Boston High School [...] had turned the neighborhood into a war zone. (1.1.15)
Criminality Quotes
Connolly's proposal was simple: inform on La Cosa Nostra and let the FBI do the rest. (1.1.26)
Violence Quotes
[J]ust five weeks after the Whitey Bulger informant file was [...] opened [...] Whitey chalked up his first murder while on FBI time. (1.6.63)
Manipulation Quotes
In May 1972 [...] even though he was Killeen's bodyguard, Bulger entered into a secret alliance with his enemies. (1.2.34)
Rules and Order Quotes
Green was the first big bend in the Whitey Bulger highway [...] Connolly quickly set out to ensure that the case would never leave the Organized Crime Squad. (1.3.18)