BOSTON, Mass. — A collection of documents claiming to offer the signature of James "Whitey" Bulger from his multimillion dollar Massachusetts Lottery win went up for sale on eBay Monday.
For sale are what is purported to be the documentation from Bulger's $14.3 million dollar lottery prize.
The documents were put up for sale by Jean Linskey, the former wife of one of Bulger's partners in the win, Michael Linskey.
Michael Linskey had purchased a Mass Millions season ticket at the South Boston Liquor Mart, which was owned by Bulger and his criminal associate Kevin Weeks.
He had an agreement to share any winnings with his brother Pat. Pat had agreed to share any winnings to Bulger and Weeks.
The ticket hit for $14.3 million in 1991 and the group headed to Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Braintree to collect their winnings.
"They received various documents to sign, and a pile of receipts," the eBay posting reads.
Two of the documents claim to carry Bulger's signature. A picture of the group — without Bulger in it — is also part of the auction.
In 1995, the federal government seized Bulger's assets, including his proceeds from the lottery.
I know that it may sound bad saying this, but who really cares about bidding on a signature of a mobster.
I went to Ebay to check it out. Interesting piece of history in my opinion.
I like how it says that the lottery ticket fueled endless speculation on the streets of Boston, that Whitey somehow "fixed" the lottery...lol....
Can't wait to see how high it sells.
The sad thing is someone will bid on this......
Lotta weirdos out there.
People used to buy John Wayne Gacy's clown pictures too.
Some people get off on having some tangible connection with infamy.
"Michael Linskey had purchased a Mass Millions season ticket at the South Boston Liquor Mart, which was owned by Bulger and his criminal associate Kevin Weeks.
He had an agreement to share any winnings with his brother Pat. Pat had agreed to share any winnings to Bulger and Weeks."
Yeah, Pat had agreed alright.
You better believe he agreed, LOL.
Yep, very sad.
That's just SICK!!!!!
Sully and Ridge I think the three of us need to come up with our own documents and put them on Ebay.... just saying.....
Interesting new development. By the way, what is the rest of the story; what ever happened to the after-tax lottery monies for EACH of these four ticket claim sharers?
Bulger had $600,000 cash hidden in the walls of his apt.
Gotta wonder if the other guys even got to keep any of it.
it was a definite strong arm by whitey to garner that 1/4 share. unsuspecting brother got hosed but decided 25% and being allowed to spend it was better than the alternative. whitey really needed that legitimate income and his claim of a share with the winners brother wasn't questioned...
The Whitey auction just got done. The winning bid was $1875.00.