H. Paul Rico
FBI special agent in Boston who, federal courts found, recruited Stephen Flemmi as an informant in the 1960s and, with Dennis Condon, handled Joseph Barboza.
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 1965 — 91 F. Supp. 2d 141: "FBI Special Agent H. Paul Rico recruited Flemmi to serve as an asset in that effort," the Bureau's effort against La Cosa Nostra.
- 1965–1968 — Limone v. United States, 497 F. Supp. 2d 143 (2007): the FBI agents "handling" Barboza were Dennis Condon and H. Paul Rico; the Deegan convictions rested on Barboza's perjured testimony.
- 2007 — 497 F. Supp. 2d 143: "By the time of the instant trial, Rico had died."
A federal agent whose conduct is the subject of court findings. This page quotes only those findings. The 2007 opinion says he had died before that trial but gives no date, so no date of death is given.
Records
itemUnited States v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2d 141 (D. Mass. 1999)Judge Wolf's memorandum of September 15, 1999 setting out, after long hearings, the FBI's relationship with informants Stephen Flemmi and James Bulger, the 1981 bugging of 98 Prince Street and the 1989 Medford recording. Reversed in part in 2000.itemLimone v. United States, 497 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D. Mass. 2007)Judge Gertner's findings of July 26, 2007, after a bench trial, that the 1968 convictions for the 1965 Deegan murder rested on Joseph Barboza's perjured testimony and that the FBI was liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act.itemMcIntyre v. United States, 367 F.3d 38 (1st Cir. 2004)First Circuit opinion of May 10, 2004 in two Federal Tort Claims Act suits against the United States arising from the FBI's handling of informants Bulger and Flemmi. It turned on when the claims accrued.itemEverything Secret Degenerates: The FBI's Use of Murderers as Informants, H. Rept. 108-414, vol. 1 (2004)Report of the House Committee on Government Reform on the FBI's use of Joseph Barboza, the Flemmi brothers and James Bulger as informants in Boston, with a long chronology. It quotes a 1967 Justice Department memorandum on the microphone at Raymond Patriarca's Providence office.