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Lindsay found that Connolly's superiors ``up the chain of command" approved using Bulger and Flemmi as informants, even when they were suspects in several investigations by the FBI and other agencies.

Well, that goes to show that its a very fact-specific type of analysis as to what "rule" applies.

It appears that the Judge concluded that the "master" knew what the "agent" was doing and that the master approved 'enough' of it that the bribery part was foreseeable.

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