Ratman: The Trial and Conviction of Whitey Bulger by Howie Carr

Author:Howie Carr [Carr, Howie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ratman: The Trial and Conviction of Whitey Bulger
ISBN: 9780986037245
Publisher: Frandel, LLC
Published: 2013-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Whitey Bulger

It was another $1,000.

Later, Morris would meet Stevie and Whitey at his girlfriend’s apartment in Woburn.

“I remember Mr. Bulger was wearing a leather jacket, and out of the leather jacket he pulled an envelope, and he handed it to me, and he said, ‘Here, this is to help you out,’ and exited.”

It was $5,000.

Morris was also taking cash and other gratuities from other “sources.”

“I received a loan of $5,000 from one. I also used his condominium in Florida on two occasions, and during my divorce when I was first separated, I didn’t have any place to live. I lived rent-free in a very small efficiency above his garage.”

Soon he discovered that one of Stevie’s top bookies in Roxbury was being targeted. His phone was going to be tapped. Morris felt he had no choice but to tip Flemmi. If Flemmi were picked up on the wire, he might be indicted, and turn on Morris. On the other hand, if he knew his bookie was a target, he might kill him, and Morris didn’t want “another Halloran.”

“At this point, I was devastated. I knew I was completely trapped, that I was in so far I could never get out of it. I just—I felt helpless. I just—I didn’t know what to do, but I felt awful about everything.”

By 1987, he was leaking information to the Globe Spotlight team, not just about Whitey’s “special relationship” with the FBI, but also about an extortion investigation involving Billy Bulger. After an administrative (rather than criminal) investigation, the FBI learned that Morris was responsible for the leak and suspended him for two weeks without pay.

By now, Morris was desperate to escape Boston. And he did, by applying for any new FBI positions that became open. And, in the inscrutable ways of the federal bureaucracy, Morris continued his career advancement. By the early 1990’s, he had been promoted to assistant special agent in Los Angeles in charge of white-collar crime.

Wyshak asked Morris how an agent as dirty as he was could rise so spectacularly through the ranks.

“Because other than this incident with the leaks and their finding that I lacked candor in cooperating with the investigation, my record was spotless.”

Spotless. So spotless, in fact, that by 1995 he was at the FBI academy in Quantico, VA, as the “chief of training” for young recruits. In Boston Stevie was under arrest and Whitey was on the lam. One night Morris was working late when he got a call from a “Mr. White.”

“He said, essentially, that he wanted me to use my Machiavellian mind to contact my sources at the Globe to get them to retract the story about him being an informant, and that if I didn’t, I had taken money from him, and if he went to jail, I was, quote, I was coming with him, unquote.”

He also mentioned he’d be willing to go one-on-one with Morris “on the box”—a polygraph test. It was the last straw for Morris. Soon thereafter, he went into “full cardiac and respiratory arrest.

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