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  • 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...
  • FBI to bury ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s file, agency rejects Herald public records request

    03/29/2024 11:11:00 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | March 28, 2024 | JOE DWINELL
    There’s no way in hell they shouldn’t tell all’.. The FBI is closing the book on the agency’s “corrupt” handling of James “Whitey” Bulger — forever. The feds are refusing to make any further installments of Bulger’s case file public, saying the records are “investigative” and no longer subject to the Freedom of Information Act. “The records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records, and release of the information could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. Therefore, your request is being administratively closed,”...