. >> on that cheery note -- [laughter] i'd like to thank you all for coming a, like to thank shelly murphy, kevin cullen, boston globe to both of you, whitey bulger, i don't know how many have time to come over, but, yes, after this. [applause] >> what's the new book about? >> called "david and goliath: underdogs, misfits, and art of battling giants," and it's about underdogs. i got really interested in telling the stories of people who seem weak and powerless, and yet go on to accomplish great things. i -- that was a puzzle of how they managed to do that, but i thought it was worthy of a book, and so my letter. >> in 2009, you wrote a piece for the new yorker, david and goliath, and you can tells story, but is that when the interest started? >> yeah, i wrote a story, but oddly, nothing in the article i wrote made it into the book, but it was what got me thinking about it. there was an article i wrote about a guy, started with a story of a guy who is an indian immigrant, living in silicon valley, coaches his daughter's basketball team, and they are all 12, 13, and they are all the daughter

i'm with the chicago tribune, write a business column with kevin and shelly murphy of the boston globe who are here not to do scouting on the chicago black hawks. [laughter] but to talk about their new book on whitey bulger, the boston mobster caught on the lamb after, what, 16 years, and first of all, let's get -- you guys have been boston journalists for quite a long time at this point. >> somebody said between us it's, like, what, 16 years? yeah, we've been chasing him combined total for 25 -- i mean, 25 each, so 50 between us. >> wow. i was reminded in the beginning, when i was a kid, my father was taking a friend of mine to go see butch cassidy and the sun dance kid. he said, you know, remember, whatever the movie makes of them, they are the bad guys, and the other thing that it reminded me of was the old line from mel brooke in the 2,000-year-old man asked about robin hood, and he said, you know, asked, you know, he says, what about robin hood, stole from the rich, gave to the poor. that's nonsense. he stole from everybody and kept everything. he said, well, how? he goes, well, h

>> gene, we do know, and there are reporters like jerry o'neill, dick lear, kevin cull lin, shelly murphy all from "the globe" who did a series on the complicity of the fbi nearly 20 years ago, 10 or 15 years ago, certainly, you know, the -- a lot of the massachusetts state police detectives, former boston police detectives and some fbi agents, they know who the corrupt agents were. >> right. >> they know who the u.s. attorneys were who turned a blind eye toward this. >> and we -- yeah. it's going to be fascinating. that's a story that's going to continue. to read more about this, mike has a great article about how the feds let whitey get away with murder in time.com. >> check it out. >> this morning, it's a fascinating read. let's get to news. mike bloomberg, he's not happy. >> in fact, when you said we were wrong, i thought that's what you were talking about. new york city mayor michael bloomberg is vowing to appeal after a federal judge ruled the city's stop and frisk practice to be unconstitutional. the judge called it a policy of indirect racial profiling that demonstrated a widespre

shelly murphy and i found out whitey bulger went out of his way to intimidate and political attack peoplehat he perceived as political enemies of his brother. and that included my newspaper, the "boston globe" which whitey and another accomplice gleefully shot up in the height of thes boston crisis because of the segregation. they fired bullet to the front of the globe's building. the next night when there was a massive police presence in the front. they went around the back on the highway and did it again. we know it's true, pat admitted to us he did it. he was proud of it. shelly and i obtained letter that whitey sent from jail he was proud of the fact he shot up the "boston boss globe. -- boston globe. he forced the globe to create a new security staff which has gone out on pension. that's how whitey sees himself as job creator. >> because the charges took over a large period of time. are there statute of limitations concerns? >> guest: no. racketeering doesn't -- that was one of the questions the jury had. no, racketeering. a pattern of racketeering allowses the federal government to