Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal 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)

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)

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)

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)

Connolly's proposal was simple: inform on La Cosa Nostra and let the FBI do the rest. (1.1.26)

[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)

In May 1972 [...] even though he was Killeen's bodyguard, Bulger entered into a secret alliance with his enemies. (1.2.34)

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)