Legal Opinion
United States v. One-Sixth Share of Bulger in All Present & Future Proceeds of Mass Millions Lottery Ticket No. M246233
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 14, 2003No. 18-1140PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Three individuals moved to intervene in a long-closed civil forfeiture action. They sought to assert claims to a one-sixth share of a $14.3 million winning state lottery ticket, still in payout, which had belonged to James “Whitey” Bulger. Two of the claimants, Olga Davis and Marion Hus-sey, are mothers of young women whom "Whitey Bulger allegedly murdered in the 1980s; the other is one of his brothers, John Bulger.
In 1995, Whitey Bulger was indicted for crimes related to his alleged leadership of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. He went into hiding and is on the FBI’s…
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