A prisoner who has spent more than two years in solitary confinement since being accused of murdering mob boss James Whitey Bulger has insisted he is innocent and begged to be allowed back into the general population.
Sean McKinnon, 35, speaking for the first time, insisted he knows nothing about who killed the infamous Boston mob boss turned FBI informant less than 12 hours after being transferred to Hazelton federal prison in West Virginia.
Bugler, 89, who was convicted of the murders of at least 11 people, was brutally beaten to death in October 2018 with a padlock hidden inside a sock.
McKinnon, was one of four inmates put in the hole following the killing and who remains there despite no charges being filed in the case.
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Bulger handler John Connolly may be medically released from Florida prison
By Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 6:45 p.m.
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In this Oct. 15, 2008 file photo, former FBI agent John Connolly listened to the testimony during his trial in Miami.Alan Diaz/Associated Press
John J. Connolly Jr., the former FBI agent convicted of helping James âWhiteyâ Bulgerâs gang in a Miami murder plot, could be a free man for the first time in almost two decades after he goes before Florida prison officials Wednesday for a hearing to consider a compassionate medical release.
Connolly is 80 and has cancer, his attorney said Sunday. If at least two of three commissioners on Floridaâs Parole and Conditional Medical Releases board agree, he would be able to leave prison after nearly 20 years behind bars.
Ahold Delhaize USA units commit to promote D&I in the workplace
The heads of Ahold Delhaize USA’s Retail Business Services (RBS) and Peapod Digital Labs subsidiaries have joined CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, a coalition of more than 1,500 CEOs and other top business executives that aims to advance diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace.
With the move, Roger Wheeler, president of Quincy, Mass.-based RBS, and JJ Fleeman, president of Chicago-based Peapod Digital Labs, have committed to cultivating workplaces that support open dialogue on diversity and inclusion, furthering education on unconscious bias, sharing best practices on D&I strategies, and creating and sharing D&I plans with their company’s board of directors.