Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger seemed to have good news when he called his attorney four weeks before his death. 
 
 The 89-year-old said on Sept. 28 that he was getting out of solitary confinement at a federal prison in Florida and being transferred to a prison medical facility, according to Hank Brennan, Bulger’s attorney of seven years. 
 
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 BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for James "Whitey" Bulger says he plans to sue the government over the notorious gangster's prison killing. 
 
 Attorney Hank Brennan told The Wall Street Journal that he will bring wrongful death and negligence claims on behalf of Bulger's estate. 
 
 Brennan told The Associated Press he expects to begin filing a number of lawsuits over the next month but declined to provide further details. 
 
 Bulger was serving a life sentence for 11 murders and other crimes when he was beaten to death in October , hours after he was transferred to a West Virginia prison. 
 
 Authorities have said two Massachusetts mobsters are under suspicion in the 89-year-old's killing . No charges have been filed. 
 
 The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment Monday.
– Whitey Bulger smelled a rat. A month before the 89-year-old former gangster was murdered in prison, he told his lawyer that he wasn't happy about an upcoming transfer, reports the Wall Street Journal. “The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t,” attorney Hank Brennan remembers Bulger telling him. “I don’t trust them.” During the call, Bulger said he'd been informed he was being sent from a federal prison in Florida, where he spent his time in solitary confinement, to a medical facility. Instead he ended up in a notoriously violent prison in West Virginia and was beaten to death inside his own cell within 24 hours. “It’s important for the family and the public to know why the prisons decided to wheel an 89-year-old man with a history of heart attacks into one of the most dangerous prisons in the country,” says Brennan. The attorney tells the AP that he plans to begin filing multiple lawsuits over the next month on behalf of Bulger's estate. No charges have yet been filed in Bulger's death, but two mobsters from his home state of Massachusetts are under suspicion. (The killers used a padlock in a sock.)