More Than 100 Ex-FBI Agents Try to Spring Convicted Ex-Boston Agent John Connolly

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Imprisoned ex-Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who was convicted of helping some mobsters murder a South Florida gambling exec, is getting some support from some former colleagues. The Associated Press reports that more than  100 ex- FBI agents, including the one whose undercover work inspired the movie “Donnie Brasco,” have filed…

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Fla. Court of Appeals Will Hear Appeal of Ex-FBI Agent John Connolly on Murder Conviction

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who authorities say stepped way over the line in his relationship with the mob, is appealing his 2008 second-degree murder conviction in the 1982 mob-related slaying of a gambling executive in Miami, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that the Florida Court of Appeals will hear…

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Convicted Ex-FBI Agent John Connolly Tells Newsweek: “I’m a Catholic. I Say Rosary Everyday and Pray For My Innocence”

The fascination with ex-FBI agent John Connolly, convicted in a mob murder, continues. Newsweek visited him in a Miami jail to get his take on his conviction in a mob murder. By Suzanne Smalley and Evan Thomas Newsweek For many years, John Connolly was the FBI’s most effective Mafia investigator in Boston. He has a…

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