Whitey Bulger is currently on trial for murder. For 16 years, the FBI had reportedly hunted South Boston killer James Joseph Whitey Bulger. His Don, New England Cosa Nostra boss Raymond Patriarca, now shows up in HarperCollins’ new book, “Deal With the Devil: The FBI’s Secret 30-Year Relationship With a Mafia Killer.”

Investigative reporter Peter Lance, mining 1,153 pages of once-secret files, writes of “the FBI’s clandestine relationship with Mafia killer Greg ‘The Grim Reaper’ Scarpa, a ruthless mobster with Hollywood connections.”

His story says family boss Joe Colombo asked Frank Sinatra’s intervention in stopping an exposé about to be written on Raymond Patriarca. Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship . . .

Odds & ends

Bloomingdale’s shot its autumn fashion layouts in North Wales, Scotland and London . . . Autograph-hunter to Chelsea Handler: “I love vodka.” Her answer? “I invented it.” . . . Speaking of those spirits, Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka is more enriching than showbiz. At Moscow’s ProdExpo, the Eastern Europe show, with 400 varieties entered, he won a gold medal . . . Jane Krakowski and husband Robert Godley at Floyd’s Beach Bar on Fire Island . . . Late at night, upper Madison Avenue, on a bus alone, Dan Rather . . . At Lawrence, an LI Beach Club, David McCallum of “NCIS”. . . At sunset, at XVI’s rooftop VIP section, Felipe Rose played the Village People’s soon-to-be-released version of “Let’s Go Back to the Dance Floor” . . . Number for Right Source, national home delivery prescription firm, is 800-379-0092. America’s Hottest Talk Line, a porn op, is just one digit off.

On the move

The view at “The View” is that it’s a springboard to big money. Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Today is her last day. She is flouncing onward to “Fox & Friends.” She follows the chorus line of Meredith Vieira, who went from the show to “Today,” Lisa Ling, who went to OWN, Debbie Matenopoulos, who went on an entertainment thing, Star Jones, who went someplace, Rosie O’Donnell, who’s in the same place as Star Jones. And look for maybe Jenny McCarthy to join Barnum & Bailey.

Unfriendly skies

Recently, American Airlines suffered technology gremlins. Computer systems backfired. The glitch canceled hundreds of pilots, stranded thousands of passengers, delayed flights worldwide and grounded planes in places that don’t even show up on maps. The fallout? Sequestration. Execs sniveled the mandate to furlough 47,000 employees meant they now lack manpower. They won’t make enough money. They can’t hire enough bodies. They need to merge with US Airways.

But: They found enough salary, enough unused unbusy unharried idle employees to free one up and dispatched to announce Khloe Kardashian’s name upon arrival at JFK on a full, crowded night flight from Heathrow. Why? To personally have this staffer shepherd only Khloe off the aircraft. Surely that worker could’ve been summoned to tinker with their cranky computer.

Fracking to sleuthing

Aidan Quinn, “with a house upstate for 26 years,” opining on Part 2 of HBO’s fracking documentary:

“Fracking’s not yet in our region, but they want it in our area, although it’ll kill our water supplies. With 32,000 gallons of diesel, long-term effects are disastrous to our environment, but Dick Cheney’s behind it so gas companies are indemnified.”

Now that he’s fricked fracking, on to “Elementary,” his CBS-TV show about Sherlock Holmes with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu:

“I play the NYPD’s Capt. Gregson. We’re starting Season 2. Shooting in Manhattan. It’s cheeky, sardonic, black and funny. Playing a cop, I can suddenly tell stuff. Like if I see anyone pulled over or doing something sort of suspicious, I now start to use my cop brains. After the Boston massacre, a guy U-turned on the highway. I sped up and got his license number.”

Adjoining diners chatting at Flex Mussels: “My son just graduated college.” Table 2: “What’s he want to be?” Table 1: “A loan shark.”

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.