[From article]
How long did those two killers who escaped Dannemora last — 21 days?
Three pitiful weeks. Whitey took it on the lam at the end of 1994, and the cops didn’t catch him until June 2011 — over 16 years later and a continent away from South Boston.
Of course, Whitey had an edge on David Sweat and the late Richard Matt. The Boston FBI didn’t get around to interviewing Bulger’s older girlfriend until he’d been gone for 18 months. God forbid the G-men should actually do some sleuthin’ to find out that his alias was Thomas Baxter — they might have caught him!
Plus they let him stash maybe $10 million cash in safe deposit boxes around the world before he left town. FBI — Famous But Incompetent.
At least the New York cops didn’t waste any time zeroing in on Matt’s main squeeze, the prison employee now known as “Shaw-Skank.” Not just another pretty face.
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Whitey was in the Winter Hill Gang. They were always ending up on the FBI Most Wanted Fugitive List. Joe McDonald had two multiyear flights. And then there was Johnny Martorano, who screwed on a race-fixing beef in 1979 and wasn’t lugged until January 1995, in Florida.
Of course, the Hill knew how to do flight from prosecution. Their Mafia cohort Sonny Mercurio once summed up their philosophy in court, “I advocate the lam!”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/06/carr_whitey_knows_how_to_duck_the_cops
Carr: Whitey knows how to duck the cops
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