The mafia and the gangsters involved are something that I do not claim to know. I do know Santa Monica, however, and I can assure you all that failing to pet dogs would be a clear marker that something wasn't "right" with you.
Kidding aside, a friend notified me that he'd heard that Bulger was also described as a pedophile. I checked and he's right. Pedophilia does not "go away". Who has been victimized while Bulger was in hiding? How many young children (he sounds to be indiscriminate) have been delivered to his house for his puerile pleasure?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/09/60minutes/main1386966.shtml
Henchman Tells Of Whitey's Black Deeds
March 9, 2006
"....Asked if he has any regrets about the loss of life he is responsible for, Weeks says no.
If he has any regrets, it is about one person he didn't kill. Howie Carr is a columnist for the Boston Herald, as well as a radio talk show host, who has been a thorn in the side of Whitey Bulger and his gang for 20 years.
"Whitey Bulger is a serial killer, cocaine dealer, bank robber,
pedophile, very smart criminal," says Carr...."
more at link (3 pages)
And:
http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_277.html
America's Children and the American Mafia
October 2004
"....The victimization of children by organized crime was also explored by reporters for the Boston Herald and Boston Globe during the late 1990s and into this decade as the scandal unfolded regarding the "Winter Hill" Gang, a group of Irish and Italian mobsters that ruled New England during the past two decades. This crime syndicate, led by "Whitey" Bulger, an FBI Informant, was made up of several
pedophiles who preyed on underage girls, many of whom were plied with the illegal drugs that funded the gang’s operations. Some of these sexual encounters were videotaped for the pedophile market...."
more at link
And:
http://www.barcc.org/blog/details/confronting-my-neighborhoods-violent-past/
Confronting My Neighborhood’s Violent Past
March 21, 2010
"....
Whitey Bulger, depending on which sources you consult, was allegedly a pedophile. In his book “The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century,” Howie Carr (an unapologetic homophobe whom I don’t love quoting) asserts that, not only was the elder Bulger a gay prostitute, he was also a pedophile. Carr relays Whitey’s m.o. as described by one of the crime boss’s underlings, stating that “
Whitey employed the same techniques on young males as the pedophile priests of the archdioceses of Boston. After seducing them, he would take the boys out for an ice cream cone.”
Whitey apparently also used the still-running Boston Athletic Club, located in a South Boston industrial park between Summer and First Streets, as
a hub for sexual exploitation. According to Carr, Bulger “put in a two-way mirror that enabled him and his friends to enjoy a full-length view of the women’s locker room.” Carr further quotes one South Boston hood as saying that some of Bulger’s associates “surreptitiously watched through the two-way mirror as
Whitey raped a fifteen-year-old girl.”
more at link