40 years: Boston FBI Agent John Connolly.

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Connolly sentenced at least 12 more years in prison
January 15, 2009 09:24 AM

By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

MIAMI - Former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. received a sentence today that will keep him in prison until at least 2021 for his role in the execution of a Boston businessman.

Connolly showed no emotion and stared intently at Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Stanford Blake as he handed down a 40-year sentence for his conviction by a jury in November of second-degree murder with a gun in the slaying of John B. Callahan. Connolly will get credit for the 3 1/2 years he has been in custody in a Miami jail awaiting trial and will be required to serve roughly 1/3 of the 40-year sentence, which will begin when he finishes his federal prison term in June 2011.

The sentence means that Connolly, 68, would not be released from prison until he is about 80 years old. Prosecutors accused Connolly of leaking information to longtime FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi that caused the two gangsters to orchestrate the 1982 murder of Callahan, who was a potential witness against them.

"Mr. Connolly, as you befriended murderers like James "Whitey" Bulger and Stevie Flemmi, you left, as the jury found, law enforcement and you forfeited that badge that so many people wear proudly and you became part of this criminal organization," Blake said.

Before handing down the sentence, Blake acknowledged that a motion filed by Connolly's attorneys challenging the statue of limitations may have merit. However, the challenge was filed too late for the trial judge to consider it as grounds to overturn the second-degree murder conviction. The motion should have been logged within 10-days of the jury's verdict, Blake said, but it was not filed for almost a month. It will have to be taken up by an appeals court, he said.

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connolly_(FBI)

There is nothing worse than a dirty cop. NOTHING.

Dirty cops lend credibility to juvenile fuckwits like this, and demean an honorable & difficult profession.

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connolly_(FBI)

There is nothing worse than a dirty cop. NOTHING.

Dirty cops lend credibility to juvenile fuckwits like this, and demean an honorable & difficult profession.

how about a dirty judge?