Dirty Agent Testifies At Bulger Trial

Retired FBI supervisor John Morris took the witness stand for the government this week at the racketeering trial against Whitey Bulger, and testified about his dirty dealings with the one-time Winter Hill gang boss as reported by Mark Trumbull for The Christian Science Monitor:  “Mr. Morris acknowledged that he accepted money and gifts from Mr. Bulger, that he helped to feed sensitive information to Bulger, and that he signed off on misleading reports about what information Bulger was sharing with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

The corrupt agent previously testified against Bulger’s FBI handler John Connolly who was convicted by a Florida jury in November 2008 for setting into motion the 1982 murder of  World Jai Alai president John B. Callahan.

Bulger insists that he was not an FBI informant but paid dirty G-men for information, and the claim certainly seems consistent with not only the murder of Callahan and some other witnesses but his 1995 flight when tipped off to the pending indictment.  Indeed, it’s unlikely that as an Irishman Bulger could offer much meaningful intellience against the Italian Mafia which is famous for keeping its business among paesani.

When Morris testified that Bulger was an informant the gangster muttered under his breath “you’re a f—ing liar” as reported by CNN:  “a sheepish, red-faced Morris, though less than six feet away from Bulger, avoided eye contact with the defendant, who glared steadily at his old confidant throughout his testimony.”