Dick Lehr
Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill are former reporters with the Boston Globe, and co-authors of Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. O’Neill has won the Pulitzer, Hancock and Loeb Prizes. Lehr, a Pulitzer finalist, has also won the Hancock and Loeb awards. He is currently a professor of journalism at Boston University, where he is a co-director of an investigative reporting clinic.
“The idea of Bulger as informant seemed preposterous. But the notion nagged, an irresistible itch that stayed close to the surface. What if it were really true?”
“Black Mass is a revealing account of the use and misuse of two particularly notorious informers by the Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the two Boston Globe reporters who broke the story, it is at once a uniquely Boston tale about Italian-Irish rivalries in organized crime, law enforcement and politics, and a parable of what happens when law enforcement officers get too close to their informer”
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
The New York Times
The film trailer for Black Mass, based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. Starring Johnny Depp as the notorious Whitey Bulger.