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John Joseph Connolly, Jr. (born August 1, 1940) is a former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang. State and federal officers had been trying to imprison Whitey Bulger for years, but Bulger evaded capture until 2011. As the FBI handler for Bulger and Flemmi, Connolly (who had grown up in the Old Harbor Housing Project with Bulger) had been protecting them from prosecution by feeding Bulger information about possible attempts to catch them. Connolly was indicted on December 22, 1999, on charges of alerting Bulger and Flemmi to investigations, falsifying FBI reports to cover their crimes, and accepting bribes. In 2000, he was charged with additional racketeering-related offenses. He was convicted on the racketeering charges in 2002 and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. In 2008, he was convicted on state charges of second-degree murder in Florida and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was suspected of tipping off Bulger that a business associate in Miami was being investigated for his ties to the Winter Hill Gang; Bulger ordered him murdered to keep him from talking.〔Phillips, Rich. (Rogue FBI agent sentenced to 40 years in mob hit ), cnn.com, January 15, 2009.〕 Connolly was released from federal prison on June 28, 2011, and transferred to Florida State Prison to serve the remainder of his sentence for his 2008 second degree murder conviction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former Lynnfielder Connolly Ends Federal Sentence Next Week )〕 ==Early life== John Joseph Connolly Jr. was the namesake and son of an Irish immigrant, John Connolly Sr. His father was a Gillette employee for 50 years; his mother Bridget T. Connolly (née Kelly) was a housewife. They lived in the Old Harbor housing project on O'Callahan Way until John Jr. was twelve. In 1952 his family moved to the City Point neighborhood of South Boston. John Jr. was able to attend Columbus High School, a Catholic high school in the Italian North End, Boston neighborhood. He has a sister, Mary Ann, and a younger brother, James, who would later also seek a career in law enforcement, joining the DEA New England Division based in Boston. As a boy, Connolly would later tell reporters, his first memory of Whitey Bulger was of Bulger using his illicit earnings to buy ice cream cones for all the boys that swarmed around him in adoration. Connolly would later answer to the nickname Elvis because of his thick black hair and also to "Neighbor", because of his early years of growing up in the projects. Connolly was a neighbor of the Bulger family, future US Representative Joseph Moakley, and Francis "Buddy" Leonard, who would later be murdered by Bulger in 1975 during his battle for power over the rackets. Connolly again met Bulger when the former was being beaten up by bullies at a park. According to Connolly, the teenaged Bulger came in and chased the bullies away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Connolly (FBI)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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