Before there was Whitey Bulger, there was "The Animal." That was the nickname for Joseph Barbosa -- one of Boston's most vicious mafia men. Growing up in New Bedford, he quickly became a player in Boston's criminal underworld. Despite his reputation for mayhem and brutality, the FBI cultivated him as an informant -- something both he and the Bureau would later answer for.
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