Bulger probe disrupted by U.S. authorities, retired Mass. police official testifies [View all]
Source: Washington Post
A former Massachusetts State Police investigator who doggedly pursued James “Whitey” Bulger testified Thursday that his efforts to bust the longtime Irish mob boss and other organized-crime figures were disrupted by FBI agents and Justice Department officials.
Thomas Foley, who rose to superintendent of the state police, said wiretaps were blown, suspects were tipped off and damaging leaks slipped out from federal law enforcement officials who were supposed to pursue local mobsters.
Bulger, accused of 19 murders, was helped by corrupt FBI agents who looked the other way in exchange for his tips about the local Mafia, according to a federal judge’s ruling and various investigations.
Although Foley acknowledged being “naive on some things” at first, he said a “pattern started to develop that we thought was unusual.” Asked by defense attorney Hank Brennan whether he was surprised to eventually learn that other law enforcement officials, including FBI agents, were undercutting him, Foley had a terse answer: “Yes.”
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