humble3d Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Former FBI agent pleads guilty to perjury A former FBI agent accused of lying during James “Whitey” Bulger’s 2013 trial while testifying for the defense pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Boston. Robert Fitzpatrick, 76, has publicly criticized the FBI’s alliance with Bulger, testified on behalf of the families of several of Bulger’s victims in wrongful death suits brought against the government, and co-authored a book: “Betrayal, Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought To Bring Him Down.” However, last year Fitzpatrick, of Charlestown, R.I., was charged with six counts of perjury and six counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly misleading jurors during Bulger’s trial in an effort to bolster the gangster’s defense. The indictment alleges that since 1998, Fitzpatrick A former FBI agent accused of lying during James “Whitey” Bulger’s 2013 trial while testifying for the defense pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Boston. Robert Fitzpatrick, 76, has publicly criticized the FBI’s alliance with Bulger, testified on behalf of the families of several of Bulger’s victims in wrongful death suits brought against the government, and co-authored a book: “Betrayal, Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought To Bring Him Down.” However, last year Fitzpatrick, of Charlestown, R.I., was charged with six counts of perjury and six counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly misleading jurors during Bulger’s trial in an effort to bolster the gangster’s defense. The indictment alleges that since 1998, Fitzpatrick “falsely held himself out as a whistleblower who tried to end the FBI’s relationship with Bulger.” On Monday, Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to all 12 charges. Under a plea agreement, Fitzpatrick will be sentenced to two years probation, Robert Goldstein, his lawyer, told the Globe. Bulger, now 86 and serving a life sentence at a federal penitentiary in Florida, spent much of the trial trying to refute evidence that he was a longtime FBI informant. Fitzpatrick, who served as an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office from 1981 to 1986, told jurors that he met Bulger in 1981 to assess whether the FBI should continue to use him as an informant and was stunned when the gangster told him, “I’m not an informant.” Fitzpatrick said that he was surprised by Bulger’s claim and later filed a report recommending that the FBI drop Bulger as an informant. The indictment alleges that Bulger never told Fitzpatrick that he wasn’t an informant, and that Fitzpatrick never recommended that the gangster should be dropped as an informant. The indictment also alleges Fitzpatrick lied about his professional accomplishments as an agent in effort to enhance his credibility. He’s accused of lying when he said he had found the rifle used to assassinate Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis in 1968, and when he said he arrested then New England Mafia underboss Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo in Boston in 1983. Bulger was convicted of participating in 11 murders while running a sprawling criminal enterprise from the 1970s to the 1990s. He was one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted until his capture in Santa Monica, Calif. in 2011 after more than 16 years on the run. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/09/former-fbi-agent-plead-guilty-perjury-whitey-bulger-case/NI1JTzljMhW8d5AM4gpcpI/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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