John J. Connolly, Jr.
FBI agent in Boston from 1973 to 1990 who handled James Bulger and Stephen Flemmi as informants. Convicted in 2002 of racketeering, obstruction and a false statement; the First Circuit affirmed in 2003.
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On the record
- 1968–1990 — 341 F.3d 16: "Connolly joined the FBI in 1968; from 1973 until 1990 he served as an agent in the Bureau's Boston office," where he handled Bulger and Flemmi.
- 1999 — United States v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2d 141: the district court's findings on the FBI's relationship with Bulger and Flemmi name Connolly as their handler and John Morris and James Ring among his supervisors.
- May 2002 — 341 F.3d 16: a jury convicted him of one RICO count, two obstruction counts and one false-statement count; "The district court subsequently imposed a sentence of 121 months of imprisonment."
- 14 August 2003 — 341 F.3d 16: the First Circuit affirmed.
- 16 October 2007 — United States v. Connolly, 504 F.3d 206: the First Circuit affirmed the denial of his motion for a new trial.
A former federal agent convicted in federal court. This page is limited to the federal opinions. No family or role line is given; the opinions describe his conduct as an FBI agent and the crimes of which he was convicted.
Records
itemUnited States v. Connolly, 341 F.3d 16 (1st Cir. 2003)First Circuit opinion of August 14, 2003 affirming former FBI agent John J. Connolly, Jr.'s convictions for racketeering, obstruction and a false statement, and his 121-month sentence.itemUnited States v. Connolly, 504 F.3d 206 (1st Cir. 2007)First Circuit opinion of October 16, 2007 affirming the denial of former FBI agent John J. Connolly, Jr.'s motion for a new trial on newly discovered evidence.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.itemUnited States v. Bulger, 816 F.3d 137 (1st Cir. 2016)First Circuit opinion of March 4, 2016 affirming James J. Bulger's racketeering conviction and life sentences after a three-month trial, and rejecting his claim that a prosecutor had given him immunity.itemDonahue v. United States, 634 F.3d 615 (1st Cir. 2011)First Circuit opinion of February 10, 2011 reversing Federal Tort Claims Act judgments for the families of two men killed on Bulger's orders, on the ground that the suits were untimely, while calling the FBI's conduct reprehensible.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.