[Calvin Locke]

In Boston, the now-incarcerated, now-former FBI Special Agent John Connolly was so desperate to join the "mafia", the gangsters of Italian ancestry referred to him as "John Cannoli".

FWIW, he and another corrupt guy were sponsored for the Hoover's FBI by then US Speaker, John McCormack (D) MA.

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In Boston, the now-incarcerated, now-former FBI Special Agent John Connolly was so desperate to join the "mafia", the gangsters of Italian ancestry referred to him as "John Cannoli".

That's not the way I heard it. Connolly may have gotten the name because his fellow lawmen thought he dressed like a mafioso, but he was so desperate to get the credit for taking down the Italian mob that he threw in with Whitey Bulger's Irish gang in exchange for info about the Mafia.

Of course Bulger's associates in the "Irish" mob were named Flemmi and Salemme, so maybe Connolly did want to be Italian and maybe organized crime really was a melting pot after all.