[Baldwin:] Boston's most notorious mobster, James "Whitey" Bulger, has been killed in prison. But one of the big questions today, who did it, why did they do it, and how did they manage to pull it off in a maximum-security prison? Bulger was found unresponsive yesterday in the West Virginia Federal Penitentiary where he had just been transferred just 24 hours prior. The facility is a maximum- security prison. Now, we're learning just days before Bulger's killing, a bipartisan group of lawmakers voiced deep concerns to Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the safety and the staffing of that very prison. So with me now Michael Kendall, a former federal prosecutor. He once represented the family of one of Bulger's murder victims. Mike, good to see you, sir. We don't have a lot of details, but what we do know is he was killed in this maximum-security prison. I'm curious, do you think it was a hit job?
[Michael Kendall, Former Federal Prosecutor:] Well, most people who are familiar with federal prisons will tell you that the lowest form of life in a prison is an informer. Bulger was the most notorious informant or rat in the country. He obviously would be a person that would have a bull's eye on his back in any prison, particularly one as violent as this one.
[Baldwin:] So how would that hit come down? Would it come from someone outside the prison and just carried out from within the walls?
[Kendall:] I think it would be ubiquitous. Numerous people in the prison would want to go after someone like him. They may have a Boston connection, a La Costa Nostra connection, or it's someone wanting to make their name. But they'd all have the same motivation. And being an informer, he would have no friends in prison.
[Baldwin:] We mentioned he had just been transferred 24 hours before. How rare is this?
[Kendall:] Well, prison murders happen. They are somewhat rare. I think we've read and all seen with respect to this particular facility, it's quite violent, it has understaffing problems, and so it would be a particularly bad place to put such a notorious informer into the general population. You really got to think, what were people thinking?
[Baldwin:] I want to ask you what the victims' families are thinking. You represented one of the families. Have you talked to them? How are they reacting to the news?
[Kendall:] I haven't spoken to anybody in the last couple of days, but in general, from comments we've seen in the press from other victims' families, there's this sense of some sort of ironic just desserts but obviously too late. He's somebody who eluded law enforcement for 16 years on the run, somebody who had a life of crime until the age of 65. Nobody should applaud a murder in prison, but obviously this is not a person anybody has sympathy for given his sociopathic record.
[Baldwin:] Not at all. Michael Kendall, thank you.
[Kendall:] Thank you, Brooke.
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