Joel Edgerton, the Australian actor currently wowing them on the big screen as Tom Buchanan in 'The Great Gatsby', has just closed a deal to star alongside Johnny Depp in the crime thriller Black Mass, which tells the story of the difficult alliance between the FBI and notorious Boston criminal Whitey Bulger.

In the latest setback for the James “Whitey” Bulger’s defence case, newly appointed U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper ruled Thursday that the mobster cannot claim immunity for his crimes as a defense in his trial.

Fresh form a successful awards season, including Best Movie Oscar for “Argo, Boston’s golden boy Ben Affleck will return to his roots to working a ‘Whitey’ Bulger project alongside his old friend Matt Damon.

The story of how Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger met with the IRA and set up the arms-smuggling deal is detailed in a new book.

James Whitey Bulger, the Boston mob boss who is awaiting trial has been treated in hospital for heart issues.

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A new book about crime boss Whitey Bulger claims his vehement dislike of president Obama helped his neighbor identify the crime boss and tip off the FBI.

Deadline reported that Oscar nominated actor Johnny Depp will play Boston Irish gangster Whitey Bulger in the upcoming film “Black Mass: The True Story of the Unholy Alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob.” Production will begin in May and a location has not yet been announced.

The late federal prosecutor Jeremiah O’Sullivan was the federal agent who allegedly gave the notorious Irish American gangster James “Whitey” Bulger immunity to commit his reign of terror, his lawyers revealed this week.

Notorious Irish American mobster James Whitey Bulger will take the stand in his own defense next year when he goes on trial on charges he participated in 19 murders.

Prosecutors want Whitey Bulger’s girlfriend Catherine Greig thrown behind bars for a minimum of 10 years.

A major row has erupted after Whitey Bulger’s lead attorney pleaded for his case to be adjourned – as the workload preparing his defence is causing him stress.

Sources are currently split as to whether or not accused murderer and ganglord James ‘Whitey’ Bulger should be called to testify about what he may know in connection to the infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. The 20-year-old robbery saw $500 million worth of art robbed from a Fenway gallery.

In a new book that chronicles his time building a case against the notorious Whitey Bulger, former Massachusetts state police chief Col. Thomas J. Foley held nothing back regarding his feelings about the FBI’s handling of the case.

Federal prosecutors have uncovered a suspected memoir that Whitey Bulger may have penned before he went on the run in 1994.

In a surprise move Catherine Greig, girlfriend of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger is considering pleading guilty and avoiding a trial.

The Boston Globe reports that Greig’s lawyers have indicated that she wants to plead guilty without a plea bargain, essentially ruling out that she would turn in evidence against Bulger.

In a surprise move Catherine Greig, girlfriend of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger is considering pleading guilty and avoiding a trial.

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger will go on trial in Boston on November 5th after 16 years on the run.

Whitey Bulger recently requested a prison sit-down with Dorchester native and Hollywood A-Lister Mark Wahlberg, presumably to chat about the possibility of turning Bulger’s mob life into a Hollywood film. Bulger’s opponents, however, would rather the infamous mobster not be glorified or compensated by way of a film.