Rogue FBI Agent Convicted Of Murder

By Wyatt Earp | November 7, 2008

Yet another law enforcement official who’s giving the rest of us a bad name.

MIAMI, Florida — Former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for leaking information to Boston mobsters that led to the 1982 shooting death of a gambling executive who also had ties to gangsters.

Prosecutors said former World Jai-Alai president John Callahan was killed after Connolly warned gangsters that Callahan might implicate them in other slayings. Boston mob kingpins James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi were FBI informants handled by Connolly.

Connolly, who showed no emotion when the verdict was read, long denied involvement in Callahan’s killing.

Connolly was convicted in 2002 of racketeering because of his relationship with Bulger and Flemmi, including a 1995 tip that enabled Bulger to escape arrest and begin a life on the run that continues to this day. Bulger is one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives.

The story that unfolded over the past two months in a Miami courtroom spanned more than two decades of Boston’s underworld, a tale that has already spawned several books and was the basis for the 2006 Martin Scorcese film “The Departed.” Matt Damon played a crooked Connolly-like law enforcement officer and Jack Nicholson was the Bulger-esque Irish-American mobster. (H/T – CNN)

Scumbag. Please rot in prison. Thank you.

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