gang, and whitey in particular. and he eventually pretty much joined the gang, and he tipped them off and received huge amounts of money from whitey over the years. it s kind of like goodfellas, where robert de niro has to tell his gang to stop spreading the money around. john connelly was spreading it around. and john connelly, by the way, has since been convicted of rackateering, working on behalf of whitey bulger s mob. and this week he s going to be transferred from buckner, north carolina, where he has been serving a federal prison sentence with bernie madoff down to florida, where he s been convicted of second degree murder. he is looking at 40 years in prison. and he s probably going to be the second boston fbi agent to die in prison. paul rico, another guy who knew whitey well, was arrested for a murder in tulsa, oklahoma, and died in prison about three or four years ago.
of my irish, as he called the gang, and whitey in particular. and he eventually pretty much joined the gang, and he tipped them off and received huge amounts of money from whitey over the years. it s kind of like goodfellas, where robert de niro has to tell his gang to stop spreading the money around. john connelly was spreading it around. and john connelly, by the way, has since been convicted of racketeering, working on behalf of whitey bulger s mob. and this week he s going to be transferred from buckner, north carolina, where he has been serving a federal prison sentence with bernie madoff down to florida, where he s been convicted of second degree murder. he is looking at 40 years in prison. and he s probably going to be the second boston fbi agent to die in prison. paul rico, another guy who knew whitey well, was arrested for a murder in tulsa, oklahoma, and died in prison about three or four years ago.
of my irish, as he called the gang, and whitey in particular. and he eventually pretty much joined the gang, and he tipped them off and received huge amounts of money from whitey over the years. it s kind of like goodfellas, where robert de niro has to tell his gang to stop spreading the money around. john connelly was spreading it around. and john connelly, by the way, has since been convicted of rackateering, working on behalf of whitey bulger s mob. and this week he s going to be transferred from buckner, north carolina, where he has been serving a federal prison sentence with bernie madoff down to florida, where he s been convicted of second degree murder. he is looking at 40 years in prison. and he s probably going to be the second boston fbi agent to die in prison. paul rico, another guy who knew whitey well, was arrested for a murder in tulsa, oklahoma, and died in prison about three or
and, again, john connelly wasn t the only corrupt agent in boston. there was that guy who died in tulsa, agent paul rico. there was another guy who testified he received $7,000 from whitey. whitey altogether gave quote, unquote, gratuities to at least 13 agents in the boston office. and at christmas, he would be puts the cash in the envelopes, he would say christmas is for cops and kids. and the fbi gave him good value in return. they took out first his allies in the nonmafia gang, the winter hill game. after they were eliminated in a race fixing case, then they moved against the mafia, and listed whitey as one of the informants on the wiretap. so that meant that they couldn t prosecute whitey, no matter what evidence turned up when they were bugging the italians in the north end. they took very good care of whitey bulger. howie, i have one whitey story that you haven t heard,
was connelly. he was his handler. he s serving time for conspiracy. paul rico was another former fbi agent. rico also charged in the case. he died in prison of a heart attack. he first arrested bulger in 1956. even the head of the organized crime division in boston admitted under immunity that he got $6,000 from him. shannon: do we have any evidence whether he was getting help along the way? there was speculation for years that was the only way he could get that. mark wolf, the federal judge in boston issued a 6-page report saying the fbi agents treated him as a col rather than