James “Whitey” Bulger insisted that a former FBI agent was wrongly convicted of leaking information that prompted him to order the 1982 murder of a Boston businessman in Florida, according to an unfinished manuscript the late gangster wrote that was made public last week.
The former agent, John J. Connolly Jr., 85, now is urging a Miami judge to vacate his 2008 second-degree murder conviction for his role in the slaying of gambling executive John B. Callahan.
His lawyers argue that while Connolly’s appeal was still pending nine years later, a Florida state prosecutor violated his obligation to turn over the memoir that FBI agents found in Bulger’s apartment when he was arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011, as well as a report of his interview with agents at the time.
