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Whitey Bulger back in the news now that U.S. Atty John Durham has been appointed to investigate another case of deep law enforcement corruption. Lots of confusion on the right, so let me clarify THREAD 1/x
Durham was brought in to clean up two generations of corruption in the FBI Boston office. He got the first conviction on Zip Connolly, who's now serving basically life in Florida for an OC hit. 2/x
Durham is also the guy who began the process of exonerating the four guys the FBI framed in 1965 for the Teddy Deegan hit in Chelsea. 3/x
But the frame-up of Louie Greco, Henry Tameleo, Peter Limone, and Joe Salvati, had nothing directly to do with Whitey Bulger. He was still in prison at the time of the Deegan hit.4/x
The crooked feds were trying to protect their prize informant Joe Barboza and the older brother of Whitey's later partner Stevie Flemmi. Bob Mueller's tie...5/x
...to this case is: He was acting U.S. Atty in Boston in the mid-80s when these four guys were in state prison (two on death row) for a crime that *literally* everyone in the FBI (and the city) knew they did not commit. 6/x
Connolly and his supervisor Vino Morris (who was also taking payoffs from the mob) lobbied the state (i.e. the governor's council, which has pardon power) to keep them in prison even though they knew they were innocent.7/x
Durham was brought in to clean up the mess, he set up shop in Worcester - not Boston - because he knew how shady everything was in the city. He's the one who got the info from Johnny Martorano and began the process of exonerating them.8/x
Statute of limitations had run out on many of the crooked G-Men, like Morris (who had cut a deal), but Durham brought down Connolly and a crooked state cop named Schneiderhand. 9/x
Bottom line: The Boston criminal underworld was a big, big place. Whitey didn't have his finger in all the pies. Keeping the four framed men in jail was about protecting the FBI, not Whitey. 10/x
Cont: There were mafia guys who didn't mind seeing Peter Limone rot in jail. In 2006, the four men (or their estates) won a civil judgment of $102 million. You can read more in this piece I wrote for the @DailyCaller. 11/x dailycaller.com/2018/06/05/mue…
