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SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2013
Volume 12 Issue 270
Santa Monica Daily Press
MAKING SURE KIDS EAT HEALTHY LUNCHES SEE PAGE 8
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THE STRUGGLING ISSUE
Prosecutors Local company makes drink that want Bulger to drives off dehydration, hangovers forfeit $25M BY AMEERA BUTT
who had been out drinking the night before, sipping a brightly colored liquid out of a square bottle. “He said it was a baby drink and if you drink it, you feel completely better,” Killeen said.
Daily Press Staff Writer
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DOWNTOWN Santa Monican Cameron
BOSTON Convicted mobster James “Whitey”
Killeen was in Las Vegas last summer for his job in finance when he noticed a co-worker,
Bulger should forfeit more than $25 million generated by racketeering and other crimes committed during his decades as the head of Boston’s Irish mob, prosecutors said in a court filing Friday. Bulger, 84, was convicted last month in 11 killings, as well as extortion, money laundering and weapons charges. He will effectively receive life in prison when he is sentenced in November. The forfeiture order requested by federal prosecutors would allow them to seize property worth up to $25.1 million. Prosecutors said during Bulger’s trial that they want any seized assets to go to the families of Bulger’s victims. Bulger had already agreed to forfeit guns and $822,000 in cash hidden in holes cut into walls in his rent-controlled apartment when they captured him in Santa Monica in 2011. He has asked to keep a Stanley Cup ring he said he received as a gift. Bulger’s lawyers did not immediately return requests for comment. A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz declined to comment. The request seeks to seize all current assets as well as any profits he could make in the future. In motions filed in court, prosecutors noted that testimony during his trial showed he took in more than $25 million by extorting drug dealers, one of his murder victims and legitimate businessmen during the 1970s and ‘80s. The drug dealers and businessmen told chilling stories of how Bulger demanded tens of thousands of dollars from them and said if they did not pay, they would be put out of business or killed. Bulger was one of the nation’s mostwanted fugitives after fleeing Boston in 1994 prompted by a tip from an FBI agent that he was about to be indicted. He remained a fugitive for 16 years before his capture.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
The liquid with the healing powers was Pedialyte, the stuff doctors and mothers give kids to rehydrate after being sick. Killeen had never heard of it before, but SEE DRINK PAGE 10
Photo courtesy Tamara Henry
NEW WHEELS: Santa Monica Fire Department personnel show off their emergency bikes on the Santa Monica Pier last week during a video shoot for CityTV, the local public access channel. Below are the carts.
Bike medics, carts give SMFD flexibility BY AMEERA BUTT Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE When Santa Monica fire fighter Walter Gonzalez was working the Los Angeles Marathon earlier
this year, he and another fire fighter weren’t seated on a truck. They were riding bikes. A runner had fainted 200 yards Photo courtesy Santa Monica Fire
SEE BIKES PAGE 10
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