Laurel J. Sweet is covering the Whitey Bulger trial in Boston for the Boston Herald.
It’s still unclear whether James “Whitey” Bulger plans to testify, but the aging mobster couldn’t help but blurt out a retort yesterday after prosecutors opened the 700-page diary of FBI Informant BS-1544-TE in a bid to undermine his claim that he was an upstanding wiseguy.
“I am not a (expletive) informant,” Bulger, 83, grumbled in frustration, people seated near him confirmed.
From 1975 to 1990, the files indicate Bulger pinned murders on other men that his own associates now say he had a hand in; that he gave up secrets about criminal rivals and that he provided alibis for his own gang — since refuted by his former associates’ admissions after they learned he had turned on them. The files also indicate that the FBI — with disgraced Agent John Connolly Jr. as go-between — passed on false information to other law enforcement to divert attention from Bulger.
Special Agent James Marra of the Office of the Inspector General read the file for three hours.
“Dozens and dozens of people the South Boston ‘hero’ has been ratting out for years. I was laughing the entire time,” said Tommy Donahue.
You can read the rest of the story and watch a local TV news clip via the below link:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/06/whitey_bulgers_informant_file_gets_read_for_3_hours
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