John Connolly, the FBI agent and convicted murderer who tipped notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger to a pending federal indictment, has been released from Florida prison on a conditional medical release. Connolly’s tip helped facilitate the 16 years bulger spent on the lam, until he was tracked to an apartment in Santa Monica and arrested in 2011.
Connolly was serving a 40-year sentence for second-degree murder in connection with his relationship to the former Boston mob boss and FBI informant. The duo was part of a murderous reign of terror that inspired two Hollywood movies, Martin Scorsese’s
The Departed and