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April 8, 2014

Whitey Bulger backs man’s efforts at freedom

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer

BOSTON (AP) — A man who says that convicted gangster James "Whitey" Bulger helped frame him in a 1980 murder is now getting support from Bulger in his quest for

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