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Families upset by Bulger’s offer to Wahlberg

Relatives of victims fear gangster will tell biased version of his story

By Shelley Murphy

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 15, 2012

The families of James “Whitey’’ Bulger’s alleged victims say it’s upsetting, but not surprising that the aging gangster has invited Hollywood actor and producer Mark Wahlberg to visit him at the Plymouth jail. “It’s disgusting that he would be asking someone to come up and hear his story for profit,’’ said Billy St. Croix, whose sister was allegedly murdered by Bulger and St. Croix’s gangster father, Stephen “The Rifleman’’ Flemmi.

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