William Michael Bulger is an American former Democratic politician,lawyer,and educator from South Boston,Massachusetts. His eighteen-year tenure as President of the Massachusetts Senate is the longest in history. He then became president of the University of Massachusetts.
James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. was an Irish American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville,Massachusetts,a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23,1994,Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler,John Connolly,tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Bulger remained at large for sixteen years. After his 2011 arrest,federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates.
Martha Mary Coakley is an American lobbyist,lawyer,and former politician who served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. Prior to serving as Attorney General,she was District Attorney of Middlesex County from 1999 to 2007.
John Joseph Connolly Jr. is an American former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering,obstruction of justice,and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger,Steve Flemmi,and the Winter Hill Gang.
Sandra Lea Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that court. Lynch served as chief judge of the First Circuit from 2008 to 2015.
The United States Penitentiary,Hazelton is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in West Virginia. The high-security facility has earned the nickname "Misery Mountain" by the inmates who are incarcerated there. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility has a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.
Timothy A. Connolly III,aka "Timmy Connolly" and "TC",was an American former South Boston bar owner and mortgage broker,who wore a wire inside the infamous Winter Hill Gang and helped the federal government indict their two leaders,James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen Flemmi. The public was led to believe that Tim Connolly was merely a businessman and an innocent victim of one of Jim Bulger's many extortions. But in truth,Tim Connolly was secretly a "made member" of the Winter Hill gang and a high ranking lieutenant in this Bulger crime family.
Karin Johanna Immergut is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Edward Francis Harrington is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Patti B. Saris is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is also the former chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Mark Lawrence Wolf is a Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and founder and chair of Integrity Initiatives International.
Douglas Preston Woodlock is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut,Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating,Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin,Procter &Hoar,and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986,Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.
Nancy Torresen is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. She is the first female judge to serve in the District of Maine.
Margo Kitsy Brodie is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She became chief judge of the court on February 1,2021.
Carmen Milagros Ortiz is an attorney,college instructor,and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Judith Ellen Levy is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2014.
Cynthia Ann Bashant is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and former judge of the San Diego County Superior Court.
Fotios "Freddy" Geas is an American criminal associated with the Genovese crime family,based in New York City. He is a former Mafia hitman operating out of Springfield,Massachusetts and often worked with his brother Ty. He was accused of having orchestrated the 2018 murder of Winter Hill Gang mobster Whitey Bulger in prison,and was charged in relation to the incident in August 2022.
Angel Kelley is an American attorney and judge serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is a former associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
