Whitey Bulger

I knew it wasn't him because he was in the bar,” Kevin Weeks said at a civil trial over whether Frederick Weichel deserves state compensation for spending ...

He said Bulger warned him to stay out of the argument between LaMonica and Barrett. “He was really drunk,” Weeks said of LaMonica. Weeks also testified on Weichel’s behalf at his 1981 trial, where he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. At the time, Weichel’s lawyers presented letters written from jail in 2013 by Bulger, saying LaMonica was killed by one of Weichel’s friends. In 2000, when Bulger was still one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted, Weeks agreed to cooperate with the government after learning Bulger had been a longtime FBI informant. “He just smiled at me and walked in.”