Whitey Bulger America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him To Justice (54 page)

60 Ibid.

61 Ibid.

62 Stephen Flemmi, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, September 23, 2008.

63 Whitey Bulger’s FBI informant file.

64 John Martorano, testimony at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, September 17, 2008.

65 Ibid.

66 Ibid.

67 The dialogue and action described in the extortion of Michael Solimando is based on testimony by Solimando and Stephen Flemmi at John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court in the fall of 2008, and Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

68 John Morris, testimony at John Connolly racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston, May 9, 2002.

69 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

70 Brief of the Estate of Edward (Brian) Halloran, January 20, 2010.

71 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

Chapter 11. The Wrong Man

1 In 1986, while one of the authors was riding in Connolly’s FBI vehicle, Connolly made statements expressing sympathy for the IRA. When asked how he, a law enforcement agent, could support a group that was engaged in killing police officers, Connolly replied that the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland’s police force, was corrupt and that its mostly Protestant members blatantly discriminated against Catholics.

2 O’Connor,
South Boston: My Home Town
, 121.

3 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

4 Bulger,
While the Music Lasts
, 4.

5 Kevin Cullen, “Joe Cahill, IRA Leader in Both War and Peace,”
Boston Globe
, July 25, 2004. Much of the biographical information on Joe Cahill is contained in Brendan Anderson,
Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA
(Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2002). It is supplemented by several interviews Cahill gave the authors before his death in 2004.

6 Joe Cahill, interview with the authors, June 1998.

7 John Hurley, interview with the authors, January 1996.

8 Records on file with the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Iveagh House, Dublin.

9 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

10 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

11 Joe Cahill, interview with the authors, June 1998.

12 Ibid.

13 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 116.

14 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

15 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police on corruption, October 2003.

16 Ibid. Flemmi said he believed John Connolly was present when Newton turned the C-4 over to him and Whitey.

17 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

18 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

19 Much of the information about the
Valhalla
voyage is based on interviews with Kevin Weeks, Patrick Nee, and Gary Crossen, the federal prosecutor who investigated the conspiracy. Before he died, Bob Andersen gave Nee an extensive debriefing on what happened during the time at sea. John McIntyre also gave an extensive accounting of the voyage to Quincy Police detective Dick Bergeron and DEA agent Steve Boeri in October 1994, a report obtained for the
Boston Globe
by reporter Dick Lehr. Weeks and Nee provided most of the information about Whitey’s involvement in the
Valhalla
plot. Stephen Flemmi’s 2003 debriefing with law enforcement, and his and Weeks’s testimony at various trials, also provide details about the organization of the gunrunning mission, what happened on the voyage, and the demise of John McIntyre.

20 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

21 Ibid.

22 John McIntyre, Quincy Police/DEA interrogation, October 14, 1984.

23 Emily McIntyre, testifying in US District Court, Boston, in
McIntyre v. the United States
, June 16, 2006.

24 Patrick Nee, interview with the authors, February 2012.

25 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

26 Sean O’Callaghan told his life story and how he compromised the gun-running mission on the
Valhalla
in a lengthy jailhouse interview with the authors in December 1994. O’Callaghan’s book
The Informer
(London: Bantam Press, 1998) was used to corroborate his interviews with the authors.

27 Sean O’Callaghan, interview with the authors, December 1994.

28 John McIntyre, Quincy Police/DEA interrogation, October 14, 1984.

29 Joe Cahill, interview with the authors, June 1998.

30 Gary Crossen (former federal prosecutor who prosecuted the
Valhalla
conspiracy case), interview with the authors, December 1992.

31 Quincy Police/DEA interrogation of John McIntyre, recorded by Dick Bergeron, October 14, 1984.

32 Report by FBI special agent Roderick Kennedy, October 16, 1984.

33 Stephen Flemmi, testifying in US District Court, Boston, in
McIntyre v. the United States
, June 2006.

34 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

35 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

36 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

37 The dialogue and actions described in the interrogation and death of John McIntyre are derived from the testimony in US District Court, Boston, of Kevin Weeks and Steve Flemmi, June 2006, and from interviews by the authors with Kevin Weeks, January 2012, and Patrick Nee, February 2012.

Chapter 12. Deep in The Haunty

1 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

2 Ibid.

3 Whitey Bulger’s FBI informant file.

4 John Morris, testimony before Judge Mark Wolf, US District Court, Boston, April 29, 1998.

5 Gerald Clemente, interview with the authors, March 1998.

6 Weeks and Karas,
Brutal
, 109.

7 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

8 Steve Flemmi, testimony in US District Court, Boston, July 2009.

9 Weeks and Karas,
Brutal
, 111; Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

10 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

11 Tom Hussey, interview with the authors, June 2009.

12 Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003, 111. Flemmi’s son William St. Croix said Flemmi maligned his sister to justify killing her.

13 Marion Hussey, testimony in US District Court, Boston, July 20, 2009.

14 Ibid.

15 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

16 Whitey Bulger has consistently said to friends that he did not kill Debbie Hussey or Debra Davis. While Flemmi was the only witness to the Davis killing, Kevin Weeks and Flemmi gave similar accounts of the murder of Hussey.

17 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

18 Kevin Weeks, debriefing with law enforcement, January 2001, and interview with the authors, January 2012.

19 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

20 Kevin Weeks, debriefing with law enforcement, January 2001, and Stephen J. Flemmi debriefing by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police, October 29, 2003.

21 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 Stephen Rakes, interview with the authors, May 2001.

25 Joe Lundbohm and John Connolly, interviews with the authors, May 1998.

26 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

27 Ibid.

28 William St. Croix (Steve Flemmi’s son), interview with the authors, December 2011.

29 Teresa Stanley, interviews with the authors, April 1998, September 2009, and January 2012.

30 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012.

31 Raymond Slinger, testimony in US District Court, Boston, September 23, 1998.

32 Ibid. Kevin Weeks claimed, in an interview with the authors, January 2012, that Whitey asked him to get Slinger a beer.

33 John Newton, testimony in US District Court, Boston, during the Wolf hearings, May 1998.

34 Roderick Kennedy, testimony in US District Court, Boston, during the Wolf hearings, April 1998.

35 Interview, by the authors, with a South Boston woman who attended the wedding and spoke on the condition of anonymity, December 1986.

36 Dan and Nancy Yotts, interview with the authors, December 1987.

37 Ibid.

38 Whitey Bulger’s FBI informant file.

39 Paul Corsetti, interviews with the authors, 1988 and October 1997.

40 Ibid.

41 Whitey Bulger’s FBI informant file. A judge hearing a civil suit brought by Louis Litif’s family ruled that Whitey had shot Litif, but Whitey was never charged with his murder in a criminal complaint.

42 Bob Long and Jack O’Malley (retired Massachusetts State Police detectives), interviews with the authors, October 1988.

43 John Connolly, interview with the authors, February 1998.

44 John Morris, testimony in US District Court, Boston, May 9, 2002.

45 Anthony Cardinale, interview with the authors, June 2011.

46 Dick Lehr and Kevin Cullen, “Liquor Purchase Fuels Friction over FBI-Whitey Tie,”
Boston Globe
, November 11, 1990.

47 Thomas Cahill, speaking to DEA undercover agent, as cited in affidavit of Boston Police detective James Carr, February 1989.

48 Mitchell Zuckoff, “FBI in Denial as Bulger Breaks Drug Pact in Southie,”
Boston Globe
, July 23, 1998, part of
Boston Globe
Spotlight Team series.

49 John Martorano, testimony in US District Court, Boston, May 2002. Connolly denied receiving the ring and was not found guilty of that charge by a federal jury.

50 John Connolly, interview with the authors, February 1998.

51 William Sessions, letter to John Connolly, October 5, 1990.

52 Shelley Murphy, “Judge Denies Ex-Agent’s Effort to Bar Key Prosectuion Evidence,”
Boston Globe
, April 10, 2002.

53 Howie Carr,
The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
(New York: Warner Books, 2006), 254.

54 Dick Lehr and Gary S. Chafetz, “Crime Figure Invests $1M in Back Bay,”
Boston Globe
, December 6, 1993.

55 Memorandum filed by US Attorney in US District Court in Boston in forfeiture case on the seizure of Whitey Bulger’s lottery winnings, February 9, 2001.

56 Tom Lyons, former deputy commissioner for veterans services for the city of Boston, interview with the authors, August 2012.

57 William Murphy (former paratrooper who met Whitey at the reunion), interview with the authors, July 1990.

58 Thomas J. Foley and John Sedgwick,
Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 37.

59 Tom Foley, interview with the authors, January 2010.

60 Ibid.

61 Ibid.

62 Matthew Brelis, “Chelsea Tavern Owner Guilty of Racketeering,”
Boston Globe
, February 20, 1993.

63 Paul Langner, “Café Owner Is Charged with Running Mob ‘Bank,’ ”
Boston Globe
, May 11, 1990.

64 Michael London, from intercepted conversations quoted in indictment, December 9, 1986.

65 Tom Foley, interview with the authors, January 2010.

66 Ibid.

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid.

69 Pat Greaney, interview with the authors, January 2010.

70 Ibid.

Chapter 13. A Head Start

1 John Morris, testimony, US District Court, Boston, May 9, 2002.

2 Teresa Stanley, interviews with the authors, October 2011 and January 2012.

3 Ibid.

4 Kevin Weeks, interviews with the authors, January and May 2012; Teresa Stanley, interviews with the authors, October 2011 and January 2012.

5 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, May 2012.

6 Teresa Stanley, interview with the authors, October 2011.

7 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, May 2012.

8 Donald K. Stern, testimony at John Connolly racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston, May 8, 2002.

9 Boston weather report,
Boston Globe
, December 23, 1994.

10 The dialogue in this scene comes from multiple interviews with Kevin Weeks and is corroborated by testimony Weeks gave at John Connolly’s racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston, May 2002.

11 Dennis O’Callaghan, now deceased, denied being the leak during a May 15, 2002, interview with the authors and while testifying at John Connolly’s racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston, May 20, 2002. He was never charged.

12 Teresa Stanley, testimony in US District Court, Boston, during the Wolf hearings, September 18, 1998, and on May 16, 2002, at the John Connolly racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston.

13 Kevin Weeks, interview with the authors, January 2012, and testimony at John Connolly racketeering trial, US District Court, Boston, May 2002. Stephen Flemmi corroborated the dialogue while testifying in several trials, including the John Connolly murder trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court in September 2008. Former state police lieutenant Richard Schneiderhan was convicted in 2003 of leaking information to Weeks and Flemmi and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison.

14 Kevin Weeks, testimony at John Connolly racketeering trial in US District Court, Boston, May 15, 2002.

15 Mike Brassfield, “Elusive Neighbor Keeps the FBI at Bay,”
St. Petersburg Times
, April 27, 1998.

16 Tom Foley, interview with the authors, January 2010.

17 Tom Duffy, interview with the authors, October 2012.

18 Tom Foley, interview with the authors, January 2010.

19 Tom Foley and Pat Greaney, interviews with the authors, January 2010.