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Gerard O'Neil is an American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author who has written many works that describe the inner working of Boston politics, organized crime and corruption. He is the co-author with Dick Lehr of Black Mass, a book which is in the process of becoming a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp.

Gerard O'Neil grew up in the Boston suburb of Stoughton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Stoughton High School in 1960 and from Stonehill College in 1964. O'Neil soon began a career at the Boston Globe and in 1972 was part of a group of Globe writers who were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for an investigative report on corruption in Somerville, MA City Hall. He continued a long and storied career at the Boston Globe where he continued to break stories about the intersection of crime and politics in Massachusetts. O'Neil is known for his depth of research, his dogged pursuit of corruption and his fearlessness in pursuing stories of criminal behavior in the public sector. In an interview with Boston.Com in 2000 O'Neil and Lehr spoke about concerns for their safety after first breaking the story of Whitey Bulger's role as an FBI informant. In the interview O'Neil and Lehr said that FBI agent told them how dangerous Bulger was. They noted, "It was more a threat than a friendly warning", an interesting anecdote that showed the FBI's continuing interest in protecting the still at large Bulger.

Gerard O'Neil"s writings include: Black Mass Rogues and Redeemers Whitey

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