`` Whitey '' Bulger faces racketeering charges and 19 murder counts . The indictment says that from the early 1970s to 1993, Bulger, a former Boston police officer, was involved in an organized crime syndicate called Winter Hill Gang with his brother, William (Whitey) Bulger. But after Bulger fled impending racketeering charges , investigators found he had been an FBI informant whose handler tipped him off about the charges -- a tale that became the inspiration for the Oscar-winning 2006 drama `` The Departed . '' The reputed Boston mob boss had been an FBI informant for years .
`` Whitey '' Bulger faces racketeering charges and 19 murder counts . The indictment says that from the early 1970s to 1993, Bulger, a former Boston police officer, was involved in an organized crime syndicate called Winter Hill Gang with his brother, William (Whitey) Bulger. The reputed Boston mob boss had been an FBI informant for years .