James 'Whitey' Bulger was a Boston organized crime leader and FBI informant who fled prosecution in 1994 and lived as a fugitive for 16 years before his capture and murder in prison.
Bulger's case is used in the lecture to illustrate the conflict between special obligations (loyalty to a brother) and universal moral duties (cooperating with justice); it exemplifies the communitarian argument that particular loyalties are morally weighty, even when they conflict with impartial obligations.
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