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To: Bill who wrote (432898)	6/23/2011 10:45:37 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 794365

In the summer of 1991, James J. "Whitey" Bulger won the Massachusetts lottery. Well, at least he claimed he did. The $14 million winning ticket was actually held by a South Boston man named Michael Linskey, who had purchased it at the Bulger-owned South Boston Liquor Mart. Linskey then told state lottery officials that he'd actually been partners with Bulger and two others and that they were entitled to half of the jackpot. This was all enormously suspicious. It had long been known that Whitey Bulger, whose brother Billy was then the most powerful politician in Massachusetts, lived on the other side of the law, and by '91 it was becoming clear -- and, the closer you looked, glaringly obvious -- that his crimes included racketeering, drug-running and murder. He wasn't just the neighborhood bookie in South Boston. In fact, the only reason he owned the South Boston Liquor Mart was because he'd paid a visit a few years earlier to its previous owner, Stephen "Stippo" Rakes, intimating that Rakes' child might be harmed if he didn't agree to sell the store to Whitey.(Whitey played Russian roulettte with the Rakes baby) Similar coercion, just about everyone figured, accounted for Whitey's lottery score. ---------------------- Also Whitey won the Massachusetts lottery about twenty years ago. What a coincidence!!