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Saturday, 21 September 2019

Crime: Whitey Bulger Update, Killed by mafia for being a rat, 24 hours after being transferred to new prison

Family of mob boss Whitey Bulger to file wrongful death claim against prison for 'deliberately placing him in harm's way' before he was beaten to death by inmates within hours of arrival at new jail

Questions remain unanswered about mobster's death, family says
Family want to know why the 89-year-old inmate was transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia and put in the facility’s general population
He was pronounced dead at 8.21am on October 30, 2018 less than 24 hours after he had moved to U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton facility
James 'Whitey' Bulger's cause of death was 'blunt force injuries to the head'
Death Certificate says he died minutes after he was attacked by inmates
He was brutally beaten to death with a padlock in a sock and officers found his body 12 hours later wrapped in a sheet
Eleven months after his death, no one has been charged

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PUBLISHED: 16:11 EDT, 20 September 2019 | UPDATED: 16:51 EDT, 20 September 2019

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The family of slain Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger is filing a wrongful death claim against the federal government following his death in prison last year

The family of slain Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger is filing a wrongful death claim against the federal government following his death in prison last year.

The Wall Street Journal reports the family is seeking $200 million in damages in the forthcoming claim.

They say Bulger was 'deliberately placed in harm's way' when he was transferred to a West Virginia prison and placed in the general inmate population hours before his death.

Bulger's death certificate reveals that he died from blunt force injuries to the head in a gruesome prison attack.

The 89-year-old died within minutes of being attacked by inmates. No charges have been filed, but officials have said two Massachusetts mobsters are suspects.

Federal prosecutors said last year they were investigating Bulger’s death as a homicide.

'We believe that James Bulger was deliberately placed in harm's way,' the Bulger family said in a statement. 'There is simply no other explanation for the transfer of someone in his condition and inmate status to be placed in the general population of one of the country's most violent federal penitentiaries.'

The notorious mob boss died minutes after he was attacked by inmates at USP Hazelton in West Virginia and was pronounced dead at 8.21am on October 30, 2018

William Bulger, Whitey's brother, is part of the members of the Bulger family who are filing a lawsuit

The claim seeks $200 million in damages, however the family said it would not benefit financially because any award could be subject to civil judgments and restitution orders against the mobster.

Attorneys for the family said they hope to shed light on Bulger’s transfer and death by unearthing documents and deposing government officials

The federal Bureau of Prisons didn't respond to an email seeking comment on Friday. Bulger's lawyer also didn't respond.

Bulger was sentenced to life in prison for his role in 11 gangland killings. He'd also been an FBI informant.

Bulger was brutally beaten to death by inmates in his cell at U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia less than 24 hours after he was transferred to the facility.

He was killed less than 24 hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton from a Florida prison. Pictured above being transferred to Hazelton

They brutally attacked the wheelchair-bound Bulger, beat him with a lock in a sock, tried to gouge out the mobster's eyes with a shiv and attempted to cut out his tongue.

His body was found wrapped in a sheet 12 hours later by prison officers, who said the gangster was hardly recognizable.

He was killed less than 24 hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton from a Florida prison.

Although an official motive has not been released, prison officials believe mob retaliation was behind the attack because Bulger turned into an informant and ratted out other mobsters.

Six months after Bulger's murder, no one has been charged in connection with his death at USP Hazelton (above) in West Virginia

Revealed: Stunning letter Whitey Bulger wrote before death

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A potential suspect is Fotios 'Freddy' Geas, a Massachusetts hitman who hates 'rats'.

Bulger was the notorious head of the Irish mob who led a decades-long reign of terror in south Boston from the 70s to 90s.

He on American's Most Wanted fugitive for years as he was on the run, until he was finally captured in 2011 living in Santa Monica.

In 2013 he was convicted for a slew of crimes including at least 11 murders and was sentenced to life behind bars.

His attorney J.W. Carney Jr blamed his death on prison officials.

He said Bulger 'was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty.'

In November 2018 he was buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Boston.

Bulger was the notorious head of the Irish mob who led a decades-long reign of terror in south Boston from the 70s to 90s

Bulger was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in the West Roxbury area of Boston in November'18

Whitey Bulger: Life and crimes of a mob kingpin

Sept. 3, 1929: James Bulger is born to Irish immigrant parents living in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. He is the second of six children. His shock of platinum blonde hair earns him the nickname 'Whitey.'

1956: Whitey Bulger is sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery. After he's suspected of plotting an escape from one prison, he's transferred to Alcatraz.

1960: Bulger's younger brother, William, is elected to the state House of Representatives. John Connolly, a childhood friend from South Boston, works on the campaign.

1965: Bulger is released from prison returns to Boston. He becomes a top underling to local mobster Howie Winter, boss of the Winter Hill Gang.

1970: William Bulger is elected to the state Senate.

1975: Bulger cuts a deal with Connolly - now a Boston-based FBI agent - to provide information on the Italian Mafia in exchange for protection.

1978: William Bulger becomes president of the state Senate.

1981: Roger Wheeler, owner of World Jai Alai, a gambling enterprise from which Bulger was skimming money, is shot between the eyes in the parking lot of his country club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1982: Bulger and Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi gun down a former henchman in broad daylight on a South Boston street to silence him over the Wheeler murder. Connolly files a report with the FBI saying rival gangsters made the hit.

July 1982: Flemmi and Bulger order a hit on John Callahan, the former president of World Jai Alai.

January 1995: Bulger disappears on the eve of his indictment on racketeering charges.

1997: The FBI, under court order, admits that Bulger was a 'top echelon' informant launching a federal probe into the agency's corrupt ties to its mob informants.

June 22, 2011: Bulger is arrested in Santa Monica, CA, with girlfriend Catherine Grieg.

Aug 12, 2013: Bulger is found guilty of a raft of racketeering charges, including his role in 11 murders.

Nov 13 2013: Bulger, aged 84 , is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus five years. Before announcing her sentence, the judge tells Bulger that the 'scope, callousness and depravity of your crimes are almost unfathomable.' She says they are made 'all the more heinous because they were all about money.'

Oct. 30, 2018: Bulger is found dead inside USP Hazelton at 8.20am, the day after he was transferred to the federal prison in West Virginia.

Women Are Having Plastic Surgery To Fix "Resting Bitch Face"

by Tyler Durden, Fri, 09/20/2019
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/women-are-having-plastic-surgery-fix-resting-bitch-face

More and more women are flocking to plastic surgery to correct a devastating condition known as "resting bitch face", according the New York Post.

"Resting bitch face" is a condition wherein you look - well, bitchy - due to your normal, everyday facial expression. It's also sometimes just referred to as simply "being from New York City".

Hope Davis, one woman who got surgery for the condition after her friends uploaded "a batch of unflattering photos to Facebook and Instagram", said:

“I was like, ‘Oh great, I look mad in the middle of the party’. I looked like a sourpuss.”

Davis didn't comment on whether or not she actually was "mad in the middle of the party" - a road we hope she considered before having someone slice her face open. Perhaps she just wasn't having a good day at the time.

But it's too late to look back now. She, like many other women, turned right to a plastic surgeon.

Dr. David Shafer, a double board-certified plastic surgeon and medical director of Shafer Plastic Surgery & Laser Center in Midtown, said he's familiar with the request to deal with "RBF", as he called it, and said its a common request that he gets several times each week.

Davis instructed Shafer that she didn't want a 'Joker' smile, but rather a "pleasant resting look".

Doctors use techniques like injecting fillers into the face and Botox to achieve the look. The procedure takes about 10 to 20 minutes and can cost between $500 to $5,000. It generally lasts "up to two years".

Shafer said:

“The worse the ‘bitch face,’ the more effective the Botox. If you always look dumpy, or unfriendly … people are going to react to you differently.”

Shafer said that requests to fix "RBF" have more than doubled over the last year.

He claims it is due to a shift in focus to the lower face, “popularized by the Kardashians” and the prevalence of selfies, which force people to look downward at their phone, accentuating their resting bitch faces.

Davis said: “Nobody can quite put their finger on it, but they notice something’s different. People have definitely complimented me saying, ‘Oh you look so pretty and cute today.’ ”

Park Avenue plastic surgeon Dr. Melissa Doft said: “People gravitate to women who they perceive as happy.”

"It helps make patients look less sad," she continued.

But, as Davis will unfortunately find out, hacking your face apart isn't necessary going to make you happy on the inside.

She concluded:

“I caught a glimpse of myself out of the corner of my eye, and it gave me a positive vibe because I looked happy. This whole time, [I was focused on] how I project to the world, but I wasn’t paying attention to how I project to myself.”

Maybe they'll have plastic surgery for your soul at that point...

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More than 100,000 cancer cases could be caused by contaminants in tap water, study finds

https://www.foxnews.com/science/more-than-100000-cancer-cases-could-be-caused-by-contaminants-in-tap-water-study-finds

A toxic cocktail of chemicals found in U.S. drinking water could be the cause of more than 100,000 cases of cancer, a new study by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) found.

“The vast majority of community water systems meet legal standards,” said Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., EWG’s vice president for science investigations, in a press release.“Yet the latest research shows that contaminants present in the water at those concentrations – perfectly legal – can still harm human health.”

The study, published in the research journal Heliyon, conducted an assessment of 22 carcinogenic contaminants which meet national drinking water standards and found that a majority of the risk is due to arsenic, disinfection byproducts and radioactive contaminants. Overall, tap water exposure to the carcinogens studied leads to 105,887 cases of cancer in the U.S. over a statistical lifetime, or 70 years. This is the equivalent of four cancer cases per 10,000 people.

Luckily, use of a water filter decreases the risk of exposure to these contaminants.

Cancer risk assessments are standard for air quality evaluations under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the study is the first of its kind to perform a comprehensive cancer risk assessment of drinking water pollutants.

“Drinking water contains complex mixtures of contaminants, yet government agencies currently assess the health hazards of tap water pollutants one by one,” said Sydney Evans, science analyst and lead author of the paper, in a press release. “In the real world, people are exposed to combinations of chemicals, so it is important that we start to assess health impacts by looking at the combined effects of multiple pollutants.”

The study analyzed water quality profiles for 48,363 community water systems, which provide water for around 86 percent of U.S. homes. The other 14 percent rely on private wells for drinking water.

The study found that the risk is higher in the western part of the country, due to water scarcities faced there. “Drier conditions decrease water availability from surface water sources, concentrate contaminants in the existing water sources, and prompt communities to use groundwater resources even in areas where underlying aquifers may have higher levels of arsenic or radioactive chemicals,” it found. It also found that those who rely on public water sources in smaller communities are more at risk than in larger ones.

The study reiterated that most of the water they tested was in compliance with national drinking water standards. E.P.A. data show that only 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent of community water systems had serious violations from 2014 to 2017.

“We need to prioritize source water protection, to make sure that these contaminants don’t get into the drinking water supplies to begin with,” Naidenko concluded.

Numerous other contaminants which could potentially be hazardous to public health were not able to be included in the study.