An East Village priest who has spent time in prison may say the Boston funeral Mass for mobster Whitey Bulger.
The Rev. Pat Maloney told The Post on Wednesday that a New York funeral director who provides burials for poor Irish-Americans has asked him if he’d be willing to officiate at the funeral for Bulger, who was brutally murdered in prison Monday.
The undertaker, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed Maloney’s claim.
“I don’t know the particular position of the church on a known criminal. But then the Lord is plentiful with redemption,” Maloney told The Post. “In his own heart and soul, [Bulger] may have changed . . . As far as I’m concerned, he’d be entitled to a Catholic burial. I’d have no hesitation.”
It wouldn’t be the first time Maloney, 86, had a connection to Bulger or organized crime.
Maloney, a staunch supporter of the IRA, was convicted in 1994 for conspiring to hide cash stolen from an armored-car robbery upstate. He maintains his innocence.
While in prison, he met John Shaye, a member of Bulger’s Winter Hill Gang.