Victim's son: Mobster Whitey Bulger is ' Satan'

Bulger was convicted in August of 11 murders

James " Whitey" Bulger is a " domestic terrorist" who deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison, the son of one of the notorious mobster's victims testified Wednesday.

A two- day sentencing hearing began for Bulger, 84, convicted in August of 11 murders and other crimes. On Wednesday, dozens of his victims' loved ones lined up for a chance to have their say.

Sean McGonagle, the son of victim Paul McGonagle, was the first to testify.

McGonagle, 49, stood up and addressed the man who killed his father in 1974, when Sean was boy. He began by looking in Bulger's direction and addressing him as " Satan."

" You're a domestic terrorist fueled by greed and a sickening ego," McGonagle said. " The solace that I will take comfort in is that every day you live in that 6- by 9- foot hole, you die another day."

Bulger, wearing an orange jump suit, did not look at victims' family members as they spoke, one after another, at a podium. He stared emotionless at a notepad, seldom moving his pen.

His attorneys said he refused to provide any information to probation officials preparing a report for Judge Denise Casper, who will sentence him. Attorney J. W. Carney Jr. said he would make no sentencing recommendation because his client believed his trial was a sham.

Marie Mahoney, daughter of Bulger victim William O'Brien, looked angrily at Bulger as she spoke.

" I miss my father all the time, and I always wonder what would have been," Mahoney said. " We got you, you rat!," she said.

When a jury in August found Bulger guilty of 11 murders and 31 racketeering counts, the verdict left eight families without closure. Their loved ones' deaths, the jury found, couldn't be tied to Bulger. But Wednesday's hearing began with Judge Denise Casper ruling that family members of the eight people Bulger was acquitted of killing can testify.

Moments later, prosecutor Brian Kelly said the defendant would soon hear from those who, because of his crimes, had to live their lives without their husbands, fathers and brothers.

James “Whitey” Bulger was described as a “little sociopath” Wednesday as the judge was urged to sentence the infamous South Boston gangster to life in prison.

“The defendant has committed one heinous crime after another,” said Kelly. “The carnage that he has caused is grotesque.”

" The victims in this case will never be able to regain what he has taken from him," Kelly said. " But hopefully they find some solace in the fact that he will spend the rest of his miserable life in jail."

Prosecutors are seeking two life sentences for Bulger, who eluded prosecution for four decades with help from corrupt law enforcement agents. He reigned atop the city's organized crime world through his Winter Hill Gang from the 1960s through the ' 80s, as bodies piled up as corrupt law enforcement officials on every level took bribes and turned a blind eye to the mayhem that Bulger oversaw.

" It was a corruption that not only allowed him to operate a violent organization in this town but also allowed him to slip away when honest law enforcement was closing in," Carmen Ortiz, U. S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said after the verdict.