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Inmates at the West Virginia prison where James “Whitey” Bulger was battered to death were tipped off that he was coming — allowing Mafia hitmen to corner the known snitch just six minutes after his cell was unlocked on his first morning there, according to a startling new timeline.
They “used a belt with a lock attached to it and beat Mr. Bulger to death.” the prosecutor said.
Officials have yet to explain how the inmates knew of Bulger’s arrival, nor why the known FBI informant was put in general population.
Wikipedia’s got a lengthy biography of Bulger, but goes light on the corruption of Boston FBI’s field agents who assisted him and ended up conspiring with him to kill informants, share loot, etc. The lowest of the agents, John Connoly, went to prison, but his supervisor John Morris skated, and despite rampant rumors at the time that the corruption extended up through several more levels from Morris, no one else was ever indicted. Question: who had more to lose from a talkative Bulger in 2018, the Mafia, the FBI, or both?
Here’s what Wikipedia does include on Morris:
FBI Agent John Morris was put in charge of the Organized Crime Squad at the FBI's Boston field office in December 1977. Morris not only proved himself unable to rein in Connolly's protection of Bulger, but even began assisting him. By 1982, Morris was "thoroughly compromised", having had Bulger buy plane tickets for his then-girlfriend Debbie Noseworthy to visit him in Georgia while he was being trained for drug investigations.
John Morris
As head of the FBI's Boston organized crime squad in the late 1970s and early 1980s, John Morris supervised agent John J. Connolly Jr. and oversaw the cultivation of "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen Flemmi as informants. Granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony during 1998 federal court hearings, Morris confirmed scathing allegations of FBI misconduct, admitting that he had alerted Flemmi and Bulger to an investigation targeting bookmakers in 1988 and had asked a federal prosecutor to keep them out of a 1979 indictment for fixing horse races. Morris admitted that he told Connolly about an informant who had implicated Bulger and Flemmi in a murder, fully expecting the information would get back to the mobsters.
The informant, Edward "Brian" Halloran, wound up dead. Morris also accepted $7,000 in payoffs from Bulger. He retired from the FBI in 1995 and now lives in Florida.
Here is all the official FBI history page has to say about Bolger, in its entirety.
One element of these organized crime investigations involved the relationship of James J. “Whitey” Bulger and the Boston Division. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Bulger—a major organized crime figure from South Boston—provided information to the Boston FBI, some of which dealt with mob activities. On January 10, 1995, he was indicted for violations of the RICO statute, including his activities while working as an FBI informant. Bulger fled Boston to avoid arrest and was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1999. In September 2000, he was indicted for additional crimes, including participation in the murders of 19 individuals. He was arrested on June 22, 2011 and convicted of murder and other charges and sentenced to prison in 2013.
Notice anyone missing? Any agents’ names? The FBI hopes you don’t.
