Mob boss to pay $15m

A MASSACHUSETTS judge has ordered fugitive mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger and a cohort to pay $15 million (€10m) each to the family of a 26-year-old woman after finding them liable for her 1981 murder.

Judge Patrick Brady also ordered Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi, serving a life sentence for 10 murders, to pay $3m for molesting the woman’s younger sister, and another $500,000 for intentionally inflicting emotional distress on the woman’s mother. The sister and mother have both died.

Bulger, who just turned 80, remains on the loose.