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  • Ex-Agents: FBI Recruits Violent Informants

    03/01/2003 3:02:21 PM PST · by RCW2001 · 6 replies · 261+ views
    Ex-Agents: FBI Recruits Violent Informants By JEFF DONN The Associated Press For decades, in cities from coast to coast, FBI agents recruited killers and crime bosses as informants and then looked the other way as they continued to commit violent crimes. When the practice first came to light in Boston - unleashing an ongoing investigation that has already sent one agent to prison for obstruction of justice - FBI officials in Washington portrayed it as an aberration. But Associated Press interviews with nine former FBI agents - men with a combined 190 years of experience in more than 25 bureau...
  • Oh, brother: Hit man says Bulger asked agent to watch over Whitey

    05/14/2002 11:48:18 PM PDT · by ninonitti · 1 replies · 1,147+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 | by J.M. Lawrence
    University of Massachusetts President William M. Bulger asked FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. more than 20 years ago to keep his gangster brother James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger ``out of trouble,'' a Winter Hill Gang hit man told a federal jury yesterday during shocking testimony also linking the retired agent to two mob murders. John Martorano, a remorseless killer of 20 men, claimed Whitey Bulger told him the Bulgers had a friend at the FBI after William helped Connolly escape poverty and the siren song of crime in their South Boston neighborhood. ``He said he was told that Connolly owed...