Archive for October 30th, 2018

Firings watch.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

I think this counts.

Izaia Bullock, a linebacker for the Rutgers football team, has been dismissed.

“For violating team rules?” I guess you could say that…

…I do believe most teams have rules against murder plots.

Bullock, 22, “initiated a plot to murder the family members of an acquaintance” earlier in the week, according to a statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Bullock was charged Tuesday with two counts of attempted murder in the first degree and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.

I wonder if this was one of those situations you see played out so often on the Justice Network: rich child hires patsy to whack his parents while rich kid is off somewhere setting up an alibi…

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Obit watch: October 30, 2018.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

Wow.

My brother and Mike the Musicologist sent this to me literally within seconds of each other, which goes to show you how well they know me:

James “Whitey” Bulger is dead. He was apparently stabbed to death in a Federal prison in West Virginia.

Details are kind of sketchy right now. Here’s the Boston Herald coverage: apparently he had just been moved to the WV facility from one in Florida.

This is still a developing story, and I’m not finding much coverage outside of the Boston papers: it may be best to wait and post an update tomorrow.

Also among the dead: Victor Marchetti, former CIA agent and author who challenged the agency’s prior approval rule.

Ntozake Shange, noted playwright.

Edited to add: preliminary NYT coverage of Whitey Bulger, which wasn’t up when I posted earlier.

…was found beaten to death on Tuesday in a West Virginia prison. He was 89.
Two Federal Bureau of Prisons employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information was not yet public, said Mr. Bulger had been beaten unrecognizable by inmates. No other details were immediately available.

Interesting. The anonymous sources are saying he was beaten to death, not stabbed. But…

He was found unresponsive at 8:20 Tuesday morning, according to a statement from the federal Bureau of Prisons. The bureau said that lifesaving measures had been initiated and that he was pronounced dead by the Preston County Medical Examiner. The statement did not indicate a cause of death.

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