Mobster Stephen Flemmi is denied compassionate release from prison

BOSTON – A Florida parole board denied a compassionate release for a former New England mobster serving time for 10 murders.

Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, 87, is serving life sentences for convictions in federal court and in state courts in Florida and Oklahoma.

James "Whitey" Bulger and Flemmi, a longtime FBI informant, ran the Winer Hill Gang for more than 20 years, making millions by extorting drug dealers, bookmakers and loan sharks.

The parole board set Flemmi's parole date for the year 2218, saying he has 2,680 months still to serve.

Flemmi has been in prison since he agreed to testify against mobsters, including Bulger.

Flemmi once lived on Quincy Shore Drive in Quincy.

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Bulger was convicted in 2013 in connection with a series of gangland slayings and other crimes while also working as an FBI informant who ratted on the New England mob, his gang’s main rival.

He was killed in federal prison in West Virginia in 2018.