How It All Goes Down
- We're not done yet, folks.
- Connolly is quite displeased when the court ruling is made public, and thus continues his full-on assault on the media, proclaiming his innocence even more loudly than before.
- Three days before Christmas in 1999, however, Connolly is busted by the FBI.
- He's charged with engaging in conspiracy and obstructing justice. Finally.
- At the same time, a host of gangsters, including Cadillac Frank and Kevin Weeks, decide to become informants themselves and give the police information of several murders they committed on behalf of Bulger and Flemmi.
- In 2008, Connolly is charged as an accessory to murder, with both Morris and O'Sullivan testifying against him.
- This is huge—everyone is shocked that the court is actually going this far.
- Of course, Fred Wyshak is the prosecutor.
- Boston is reeling from these revelations, especially because the Bulger family is so prominent. Jackie Bulger, Whitey's little bro, is convicted for keeping in contact with him while he's on the run, and Billy is accused of the same thing, though he evades punishment.
- But where in the world is Whitey Sandiego?
- In 2011, the FBI launches a publicity blitz for the America's Most Wanted List, where Whitey has landed a lucky spot.
- And it works. Whitey and Catherine Greig are discovered in Santa Monica, California, where they've been living under assumed identities as an old retired couple.
- In a hilarious twist, the police were tipped off by the couple's neighbor, who recognizes Greig as the woman who always feeds local stray cats.
- And they would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling felines…
- Whitey is rushed back to Boston and immediately made to stand trial.
- It might have taken a few decades too long, but we can finally rest easy knowing that Whitey "would never again draw a breath as a free man" (e.77).