Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down
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From “Law Enforcement Officials’ Lament About an Elusive Foe: Where was Whitey?” by Chistine Chinlund, Dick Lehr, and Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe, September 20, 1988.
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey/globe_stories/1988_the_bulger_mystique_part_3.htm.
“We had no evidence against them”: From the September 20 segment of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Series.
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John Morris would suffer a heart attack: Also referenced in Black Mass (page 275). Morris would testify to this in the Wolf hearings.
Among the “perks” of his retirement package: Also referenced in The Brothers Bulger (page 9).
Then a new “sheriff” came to town: Chronology involving Fred Wyshak covered and confirmed in Black Mass (pages 251–56).
“The court has reviewed the defendant’s”: Quote from Judge Wolf’s decision also appears in Black Mass (pages 283–84): http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/United_States_v_Salemme_Decision.htm.
“You had a good thing going”: From transcripts of the Wolf hearings.
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“Did you ever report”: Testimony from transcripts of the Wolf hearings.
During subsequent trials: Referenced memo can be found in Appendix 5.
“In an effort to protect Bulger and Flemmi”: From Wolf’s Memorandum and Order: http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/United_States_v_Salemme_Decision.htm.
As for the bombshell I’d lobbed: United States v. Flemmi, 195 F. Supp 2nd 243, 249–50): http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/United_States_v_Salemme_Decision.htm.
His voluminous opinion went on to say: United States v. Flemmi, 195 F. Supp 2nd 243, 249–50: http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/United_States_v_Salemme_Decision.htm.
Wolf aptly summed up the entire fiasco: F. U.S. v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2nd 141, 181–82: http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/United_States_v_Salemme_Decision.htm.
Shortly after Judge Wolf issued his ruling, John Martorano struck a deal in which he admitted to killing twenty people: From Matorano’s own admissions in a 1998 plea agreement in which he admitted to killing ten people for Bulger, including Roger Wheeler (“Ex-Mobster Reportedly Strikes Deal,” by Shelley Murphy, Boston Globe, September 9, 1999): http://www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey/globe_stories/1999/0909ex_mobster_reportedly_strikes_deal.htm.
“Prosecutors want to believe”: Wyshak quote from “The Avengers” by Dick Lehr, Boston Magazine, May 15, 2006: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_avengers/.
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“I’d learn later that the FBI’s legal counsel”: Corroborating document in author’s possession.
The Wolf hearings would: Allegation against Morris affirmed by Judge Wolf in his ruling: “In addition, the fact that Morris accepted $7000 from Bulger and Flemmi does not render…” (http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/United_States_v_Salemme_Decision.htm).
During much of that same period: Author’s assertions supported by court documents. Results of polygraph test in author’s possession.
Part Five: Vindication
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a bespectacled, ordinary-looking special prosecutor: Accounts of John Durham drawn from discussions with David Boeri for his article “The Martyrdom of John Connolly,” Boston Magazine, September 2008. NPR has also covered these accounts in detail.
“Maybe way back. Many years before”: Billy Bulger’s testimony before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, 2002. Also referenced in The Brothers Bulger (page 20).
“It wasn’t that I wouldn’t shoot”: From article by Shelley Murphy and Globe staff, Boston Globe, March 13, 2006.
In May 2002, Connolly was convicted: As reported by Shelley Murphy, in the Boston Globe, May 29, 2002: http://www.ipsn.org/characters/connolly/connolly_convicted.htm.
“Nobody in this country is above the law”: Associated Press, January 2, 2008: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22474868/.
“The 1979 Ciulla race-fixing prosecution memorandum”: From “Everything Secret Degenerates: The FBI’s Use of Murderers as Informants”: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5997413/Everything-Secret-Degenerates-The-FBI’s-Use-of-Murderers-as-Informants.
This was further affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in affirming Judge Lindsay’s decision in the McIntyre trial: “Bulger and Flemmi were removed from a 1979 indictment charging a scheme to fix horse races, and listed only as unindicted co-conspirators, after a request by Connolly and his then-supervisor, John Morris, because of their value to the LCN investigation” 447 F. Supp. 2d at 80.
“I must tell you this, that I was outraged”: From “Everything Secret Degenerates: The FBI’s Use of Murderers as Informants”: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5997413/Everything-Secret-Degenerates-The-FBI’s-Use-of-Murderers-as-Informants.
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“And as a result”: Drawn from trial transcript in the author’s possession.
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“During the course of the interview”: Drawn from trial transcript in the author’s possession.
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“Okay … I’d like to ask you”: Drawn from trial transcript in the author’s possession.
“Stephen Flemmi, the homicidal maniac”: Peter Gelzinis’s quoted column appeared in the Boston Herald on Friday, June 23, 2006.
Lindsay quotes taken from his decision issued on September 5, 2006.
“because Connolly”: From the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in ruling issued October 16, 2008 (document can be found in Appendix).
Figuring there might be something of value: This version of events supported by materials furnished from attorney Doug Matthews himself and in author’s possession.
“Aren’t these our guys?”: As confirmed in Black Mass (page 186).
There was Stephen “the Rifleman” Flemmi testifying: As also reported in the Boston Herald on September 14, 2008.
“When you give us information on one person and they got killed”: As also reported by Shelley Murphy in the Boston Globe on September 24, 2008.
“If John Connolly and the FBI had done their job”: Associated Press, September 19, 2008, and the Miami Herald, September 20, 2008. Author has the articles in his possession.
Writing in the Boston Globe: Joan Vennochi’s column in the Boston Globe can be found at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2000/01/25/if_connolly_is_so_guilty_can_the_fbi_be_so_innocent.
“Well, I know”: Transcript is in author’s possession.
“That is absolutely untrue”: Shelley Murphy, writing in the Boston Globe, July 22, 1998.
In August of 2009: The entire decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upholding the ruling of the lower court can be found at: http://www.nlg-npap.org/html/documents/FirstCirrulinginLimonevUS.pdf.
And on April 30, 2010: Solicitor General Elena Kagan and the Department of Justice’s decision not to appeal the Salvati decision further can be found in the Boston Globe, May 1, 2010: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/05/01/us_wont_appeal_verdict_in_case_of_four_framed_by_fbi/.
“Judge Admits”: Referenced article in the Boston Herald, “Judge Admits He Was Too Harsh on Mother of Whitey Bulger Victim,” by Laurel J. Sweet, November 5, 2009: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1209873&srvc=next_article.
“They are lying”: Author’s quoted testimony supported by trial transcripts.
“I’m prepared to find there is a massive”: As referenced in the Boston Herald, “Judge Admits He Was Too Harsh on Mother of Whitey Bulger Victim,” by Laurel J. Sweet, November 5, 2009: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1209873&srvc=next_article.
In May 2009, Judge Young also awarded an $8.5 million: From article by Shelley Murphy and the Globe Staff, Boston Globe, June 12, 2009: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/12/judge_awards_625_million_to_family_in_1976_mob_killing/.
EPILOGUE
> “Here’s to Honest Cops Who Made a Difference”: Article by Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe, July 3, 2011: http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-03/news/29733649_1_state-cops-fbi-agent-john-connolly.
“The FBI Agent who Really Wanted ‘Whitey’ ‘’: Article by Deborah Becker and Lisa Tobin, WBUR, July 7, 2011: http://www.wbur.org/2011/07/07/good-cop-2.
“I hope we all”: From “Setting the Stage for Whitey’s Arrest,” by Nancy Harris, Boston Globe, July 14, 2011: http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-14/ae/29773902_1_bulger-winter-hill-gang-flemmi.
INDEX
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ABSCAM investigation
lessons from
results of
as RICO sting
significance of
Williams and
Ahearn, James
denial by
as SAC
Ainsworth, Kathy
as informant
murder of
Angiulo, Gennaro (“Jerry”)
arrest of
background on
case against
death
electronic surveillance of
for Patriarca
role of
Army, U.S.
education in
in Germany
training in
ASAC. See Assistant Special Agent in Charge
Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC). See also specific ASACs
Attorney’s Office, U.S.
Bates on
Piro and
Weld in
Wyshak in
Bailey, F. Lee
Barboza, Joseph
background of
description of
fear of
as informant
murder of
murders by
against Patriarca
as sociopath
testimony of
Barrett, Bucky
baseball case
Bates, Dick
on FBI politics
Fitzpatrick with
on irregularities
on LCN
on MSP
on O’Sullivan
on Race Fix case
reluctance of
on rumors
on U.S. Attorney’s Office
Bath Shipyards kickbacks, bribes
Benjamin, Frank
Bin Laden, Osama
Black Mass (Lehr and O’Neill)
on Bulger, B.
Jennings for
on McWeeney
Boeri, David
on Connolly, J.
Weeks to
Boeri, Steve
Bok, Sissela
bookmaking
Boston
Miami compared to
Mount Loretto compared to
Boston College basketball team point shaving
Boston Globe
on DEA
against FBI
Fitzpatrick to
Jennings in
on Race Fix case
Spotlight Series in
vindication from
against Whitey
Boston Herald
on Davis
Greenleaf in
on leaks
lies in
Lindsay in
on Whitey
Boston Magazine
Boudreau, Martin
leaks and
McIntyre case against FBI related to
with Strike Force
Bowers, Sam
arrest of
for WKKKKOM
Boyle, Bob
Bradley, Ed
Bramlett, Leah
The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century (Carr)
Brown, Billy
explanation to
on interviews
protection from
Brown, Paul
Buckley, Michael
Bulger, Billy
Black Mass on
body language of
case against
Connolly, J., and
FBI for
at House Committee on Government Reform
Lehr on
meeting with
Morris for
O’Neill on
O’Sullivan and
payoffs and
position of
rise to power by
St. Botolph Realty Trust for
testimony of
Whitey compared to
Bulger, James (“Whitey”)
ambition of
background on
Body Space and
Boeri, D., on
bookmaking and
Boston Globe against
Boston Herald on
Bulger, B., compared to
capture of
Castucci and
Chalmas and
Ciulla against
common knowledge about
Connolly, J., for
control of
description of
disappearance of
drug trade and
electronic surveillance of
eyes of
Fitzpatrick against
Fitzpatrick meeting with
against Flynn, J.
girlfriend of
hostility from
humor of
image of
as informant
intimidation and
invulnerability of
IRA and
jai alai and
Knotts against
lack of evidence from
liquor store of
lottery for
for McDonald
against McIntyre
McIntyre case against FBI related to
meeting report on
money laundering by
Morris for
on Most Wanted list
murders by
against Murray
O’Donovan against
opportunism of
O’Sullivan and
for Patriarca
payoffs from
President’s Commission on Organized Crime against
as psychopath
reputation of
research on
Rico for
against Russo
Salemme and
and Sims
as sociopath
as TEs
torture by
weapons smuggling by
Weeks and
Wheeler and
Winter and
Winter Hill Gang takeover by
Wyshak against
Burke, James
Burton, Dan
Callahan, John
and Halloran
Halloran’s murder and
Huff against
as informant
information about
murder of
Wheeler and
Carr, Howie
Caruana, Sal
Castucci against
Knotts on
case fixing
Castucci, Richie
background on
against Caruana
Connolly, J., and
criminal activities of
description of
favors from
FBI and
as informant
McDonald and
murder of
O’Donovan and
Opie with
Sims and
special treatment for
as TE
Whitey and
Cavanaugh, Paul
apology from
on cover-up
Chalmas, Jimmy (Ted Sharliss)
childhood. See also Mount Loretto
anger and
brutality in
child-care home in
dreams of
education in
FBI in
fears in
informants in
Jesus in
loneliness of
mother’s death in
O’Rourke for
parents in
personal belongings in
police in
without power
radio in
siblings in
without trust
Chinlund, Christine
church
Jesus
at Mount Loretto
Ciulla, Tony
and Flemmi, S.
racehorse fix case of
and Whitey
Clinton, Bill
Coleman, John
Condon, Dennis
Connolly, J., with
without ethics
for FBI
as hero
informants for
leak from
for public safety
Connolly, John
ambition of
arrest of
arrogance of
background on
Boeri, D., on
and Boston College point shaving case
Bulger, B., and
Callahan’s murder and
Castucci and
Condon with
conviction of
delusions of
description of
diamond for
dirty work by
distrust of
Durham against
as fallguy
falsifications by
fears of
fictions from
for Flemmi, S.
ice cream story of
against Knotts
leaks by
loyalty of
McIntyre case against FBI related to
modus operandi of
against Morris
against MSP
O’Donovan against
Opie and
political intimidation from
priority of
ratting by
against regulations
retirement of
against Salemme
sentence of
suspicions about
testimony of
Wheeler’s murder and
for Whitey
Connolly, Tim
cover-up. See also specific agents
Cavanaugh on
by O’Sullivan
Trout on
Crawford, Jim
against Twomey
Cronin, Matt
against Twomey
Cullen, Kevin
Darkness at Noon
Davis, Debra
DEA. See Drug Enforcement Agency
Deegan, Teddy