FBI-mafia axis. (Inside Report)."For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington knew that its Boston agents were using hit men and mob leaders as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious crimes including murder," reported the AP on July 28th. Documents procured by AP from congressional sources "directly connect FBI headquarters to a pattern of collusion with notorious killers." Crime victims of the FBI-protected gangsters have filed more than $1 billion in suits against the feds. During the early 1960s, responding to political pressure to crack down on organized crime, the FBI devised a program to recruit "top echelon" informants inside various crime syndicates. Recruits included Boston's "Winter Hill Gang--vicious thugs eager to seize control of the rackets from the Patriarca crime family The Patriarca crime family is a criminal organization based in New England, specifically Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, and forms part of the Mafia or La Cosa Nostra. The Patriarca family is sometimes referred to as “The Office. ." The FBI devised an entente Entente: see Triple Alliance and Triple Entente; Balkan Entente; Little Entente. with the Winter Hill syndicate: "In return for information on the mob, Boston agents looked the other way as the Winter Hill Gang The Winter Hill Gang is a loose confederation of Boston-area organized crime figures, predominately Irish-American with a small Italian-American part. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. sold drugs, stole and murdered, even tipping it off when state police or federal drug agents were on its trail." This arrangement was forced into the open in 1995, when Massachusetts state police and federal narcotics investigators finally built a racketeering Traditionally, obtaining or extorting money illegally or carrying on illegal business activities, usually by Organized Crime . A pattern of illegal activity carried out as part of an enterprise that is owned or controlled by those who are engaged in the illegal activity. case against the Winter Hill Gang. Former FBI agent John Connolly, convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice A criminal offense that involves interference, through words or actions, with the proper operations of a court or officers of the court. The integrity of the judicial system depends on the participants' acting honestly and without fear of reprisals. , awaits sentencing. One of his former Bureau colleagues who also accepted mob bribes has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony. Former Winter Hill Gang boss James J. "Whitey whit·ey also Whit·ey n. pl. whit·eys Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a white person or white people. Noun 1. " Bulger, just rising in the crime world when he was tapped to become a "top echelon" informant for the Bureau, remains at large, despite being blamed for at least 21 murders--11 of which were carried out while he was an informant. |
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