Whitey Bulger’s family: Prison system did not protect him Pro-trump messages painted on headstones at Jewish cemetery
BRUCETON MILLS, W.VA. – Family members of Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger Jr. have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and 30 unnamed employees of the prison system for allegedly failing to protect Bulger, who was beaten to death at a West Virginia prison.
The family filed the lawsuit against the prison system last week, two years after Bulger, 89, was killed at the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, a federal prison in West Virginia’s Preston County. Bulger died the day he was transferred there from another prison.
The lawsuit said the prison system failed to protect Bulger by moving him to Hazelton, a prison with constant inmate violence, news outlets reported.
The family also alleges the prison system was aware that Bulger was labeled a “snitch” and that he was perhaps the most well-known inmate to be incarcerated since Al Capone, yet did not do enough to shield him from the other inmates.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Police are investigating vandalism that left several headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids spray-painted with “TRUMP” and “MAGA” before President
Donald Trump held his final campaign rally in the western Michigan city.
Grand Rapids police officers on Monday found six headstones spray-painted with red paint at the Ahavas Israel Cemetery.
The vandalism appeared to be “relatively new,” with “TRUMP” spray-painted on the back of four headstones and “MAGA” – an acronym for the Trump campaign slogan Make America Great Again – on two others, said Sgt. John Wittkowski, a police spokesman.
The vandalized graves were discovered hours before Trump visited Grand Rapids late Monday night in his final campaign rally before Election Day.