John Connolly (FBI)

John Connolly (FBI)

John J. Connolly Jr. is a former FBI agent, currently incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for racketeering and obstruction of justice convictions stemming from his relationship with Whitey Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang. He is the brother-in-law of Arthur Gianelli who is married to Elizabeth Moore Connolly's sister.

State police and other federal officers had been trying to imprison Whitey Bulger for years, but somehow Bulger always avoided getting caught. As the FBI handler for Bulger and Flemmi, Connolly (who had grown up in the Old Harbor Housing Project with Bulger) had been protecting them from prosecution by feeding him information about possible attempts to catch them.

Connolly was indicted on December 22 1999 on charges of alerting Bulger and Flemmi to investigations, falsifying FBI reports to cover their crimes, and accepting bribes. In 2000, he was charged with additional racketeering related offenses.

This scandal was the basis for the book "Black Mass" and served as the inspiration for the setting of 2006 crime thriller film, "The Departed", directed by Martin Scorsese. [Steve Sailer (2006-11-6). Good Will Killing: The Departed. [http://www.isteve.com/Film_The_Departed.htm] The American Conservative. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.]

References

External links

* [http://www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey/characters/connolly.htm Profile on Boston.com]
* [http://www.laborers.org/HartfordCourant_12-23-99.html Article on laborers.org]
* [http://boston.fbi.gov/pressrel/2000/superseding.htm Press Release from Boston FBI]


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