Henchman Tells Of Whitey's Black Deeds

So perhaps it's no surprise that Bulger and Weeks hatched a plan to take Howie Carr out of the newspaper and off the airwaves for good.

"We found out he lived down in Acton, Massachusetts. We drove down to his house. And we took pictures. We scoped it out. We looked for an escape route. We, at one point, we were gonna fill a basketball with C4 (plastic explosive)," Weeks tells Bradley. "And when he come out of the house, we were gonna blow it up and kill him. But we decided that it would probably take the house down, too, and kill some innocent people, his family. So we nixed that plan."

Plan B, he says, was much more direct: Weeks was just going to shoot him.

"I was down at his house one morning, about 5:30 in the morning, across the street in the cemetery with a rifle, waiting for him to come out. And he come out about between 7:15, 7:30. And he had his daughter with him. I assume it was his daughter. Young girl. He was holding her by the hand, going to his car. So, I had to pass on it," Weeks says.

Asked why he had to pass, Weeks says, "I didn't wanna kill him in front of his daughter."

Had he come out the door by himself, Weeks says, Carr would be a dead man.

Carr's reaction to the claim?

"I don't know. I don't know if I believe him or not," says Carr.

"He says he was in the graveyard. Is there a graveyard across the street from your house?" Bradley asks.

"Yeah. There is," Carr replies. "It just doesn't seem like Kevin would have the stones to do it. Now I could see, if he said Whitey was there, well, you wouldn't be interviewing me, cause I'd be dead. But I'm just not sure Weeks is capable of that."

Told that Carr doesn't believe his story and thought he didn't have the stones to kill him, Weeks says: "Really? Well, I don't think Howie Carr has the stones to confront any man and say what he prints to their face."

"What would you say to Howie Carr if he were here?" Bradley asks Weeks.

"I wouldn't say anything to Howie Carr. He could tell me what he thinks of me. And I'll show him what I think of him," Weeks says.

How would he do that?

"I think I'd be creative. I could figure something out," Weeks says.

Asked what he means by creative, Weeks says, "Whatever comes to mind at the time."

"I would assume after the time you spent in jail, you're not gonna kill him?" Bradley asks.

"No. But you know, it's a loaded question," Weeks says.

"You could say yes or no," Bradley says.

"Well, I don't like him," Weeks responds.

For 20 years, Weeks and Bulger were practically untouchable. One reason, he says, was that they had six FBI agents and dozens of Boston cops on the payroll.

"Every time we made a score, say there was four of us involved in a score, it would be cut up five ways. And that fifth piece would go to law enforcement, to the connections," says Weeks. "And we were always getting information back about investigations that were going on, things that people were doing, saying about us, grand juries, things like that."

Bulger even used tips from an FBI agent named John Connolly to identify and kill informants within his own organization. Connolly is charged with murder in connection with his ties to Bulger's gang.

With help like that, they amassed tens of millions of dollars from gambling, drugs, robberies and extortions. Once, Bulger and Weeks even hit the Massachusetts state lottery winning $14 million, although many suspect they simply coerced the winning ticket-holder into having them as partners. Then, in a flash, their luck ran out.

It was two days before Christmas of 1994, when a tip from a crooked FBI agent marked the beginning of the end for South Boston's Irish mob. That was the day when Whitey Bulger found out he was about to be arrested and charged with extortion and racketeering. Weeks says Bulger knew he had been under investigation. But no one knew how much planning he had done to be ready for this day. Since the early 1980s, he had been creating new identities and stashing millions of dollars in safe deposit boxes around the world.

"He was probably worth $30 to $50 million," Weeks says.

Bulger, Weeks says, could live comfortably for a long time.

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