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John Connolly, the one time star of the FBI’s war on organized crime who was convicted of second degree murder yesterday, has been calling me collect from prison for the last year of so. I’m waiting for him to call me today. Now that he’s likely to spend the rest of his life in prison, I figure he’ll be calling sooner or later. In between his endless campaign to overturn his first conviction—on charges of corruption and of giving “Whitey” Bulger a head start before the cops could arrest him—which took up most of Connolly’s first six years in prison, and his new campaign to overturn this conviction, he no doubt will be sending me still more letters. Continue reading
