The fate of the mafiosi in America

The court will determine the measure of punishment to Borger in November. It is expected that he will be sentenced to life imprisonment. Balger is unlikely to ever be released. The former gangster is 83 years old.

The son of immigrants from Ireland, James Balger was born and raised the "Irish" area in the south of Boston. For the shock of blond hair, he still received the nickname "White".

In 1956, he first landed on a bars. This happened after he was found guilty of involvement in the robbery of three banks and sentenced to 20 years in prison. But he served only nine years, and several of them in the legendary Alcatraz prison in California.

Immediately after the release, Boston returned and took up the old - robberies, robbery, extortion, illegal gambling business.

Very quickly he became the right hand of the leader of the gang of Winter Hill Gang Haui Winter.

In the sixties and seventies, Balger was one of the most cruel members of this gang, ordered and fulfilled the murders. In 1979, Haui Winter got into prison, and Balger headed the gang. Soon, under his control was a significant part of the drug market in Boston and the underground gambling business. Murders and robberies continued. At the same time, Balger tried to create an image of a certain modern Robin Hood. From time to time, he helped the poor, gave them money and food for the holidays, and also gave donations in favor of the Catholic Church in his Boston area. This image was completely dispelled during the trial. Witnesses described a borger one by one as a cold -blooded killer who himself himself strangled women and from whose bullets they died innocent passers -by. After the murders he committed, Balger used to sleep a little, and even years later, when he drove past the places where the corpses of the people killed by him were secretly buried, he released cynical jokes.

It is curious that while the balger moved up the criminal career ladder, his younger brother William made his career in politics. In the 1960s, William Balger became a member of the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of Massachusetts, and in 1978 he was elected chairman of the state of the Senate, and at this post he served longer than anyone in the history of Massachusetts. William Balger was a respected and popular politician and always denied that he knew what his brother Witit was doing. However, in 2003, he was forced to leave with the post of President of the University of Massachusetts after the completion of the political career of the President of the University precisely because of family ties with the criminal.

The “hate” Balger became the prototype of Frank Costello, the character of the film “Speaker” of the director Martin Scorsese. This role was played by the famous Jack Nicholson. In the film, the Church of Church is dying from the bullet of the main negative hero - a corrupt police officer.

The fate of the real "wesit" the Barger turned out differently. In 1994, when he was finally charged with a criminal conspiracy and extortion, he set off on running. Since then, he was listed in the list of especially dangerous and most wanted criminals, and for the information that would lead to his arrest, the FBI offered $ 2 million. A larger reward was offered only for the head of Osama Bin Laden. Despite the fact that from time to time there was information that the Barger was seen abroad, he actually lived in California and only from time to time went to Mexico.

He was detained in 2011 in the California city of Santa Monica, where he lived with his friend Katherine Grieg in a modest apartment. In Boston, Balger returned to the handcuffs and under enhanced guard. By that time, it was already known that Balger was not just the head of the criminal gang, but also the secret informant of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It turns out that it began to cooperate with the FBI BALGER back in 1975. In those years, the FBI hunted for the Italian mafia in the Massachusetts and other states of New England, and Balger was only glad to "merge" information about his rivals and sworn enemies from the "goat of Nostra". In 1980, Balger helped the FBI install the listening equipment in the headquarters of the head of the Italian Mafia in Boston Jennaro Anjuwl, who was subsequently attracted to court and sentenced from forty-five prison.

It is assumed that Balger "handed over" the authorities and himself destroyed so many criminal leaders in Boston that by the time he himself was forced to hide, his gang could act in virtually freeness in the city.

Later, his lawyer stated that Balger was satisfied with the outcome of the court, since the corruption of officials to whom he gave bribes and who, as Balger claims, worked for him was revealed. At the same time, Balger continues to deny that he was "knocking", even though the FBI officially admitted that the "wate" was an informant.

When a conviction was read out in court, Balger did not show any emotions. He only greeted relatives who were in the courtroom.