Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Page #11

in a court hearing in 1999?

Bulger:
I didn't know that Stevie

did that there, I had no idea.

And when I heard it,

I was shocked.

I mean, Stevie was like my brother.

I mean, I was so close to him.

He fooled me, he fooled the Mafia,

he fooled Johnny, everybody.

I mean, I was shocked.

I never believed he would ever do

anything like that.

Did you ever have an instance

where Stevie provided

some information in your presence?

One time John Connolly asked him

a question and Stevie answered,

he gave a name. When I heard that

I brought the thing to a close,

and I told Steve, "C'mon, let's go."

And I start hollering at him

as we went down the stairs,

I told him,

"What the f*** did you do that for?"

I says, "We're paying, we're not saying.

We're buying, we're not selling."

Brennan:
When Stephen Flemmi came out

and said he was an informant

and was granted immunity,

the government wanted to shut him up,

and John Connolly made the mistake

of coming in

and taking Steve Flemmi's side and

saying, "We did give him immunity.

The entire D.O.J. did it, you knew we were

doing it, that's what you told us to do.

You paid us to do it,

you gave us bonuses to do it."

At that point, the federal government

was either going to have to expose

all the corruptness

in the federal government,

all the murders, or they have to say

that John Connolly is a liar.

Man:
John wouldn't play ball

with the prosecutors.

They then focused on John.

"Oh, okay, you don't want to play

ball with us, we'll show you."

And they then started

looking at John,

and made a case against John.

The government decided that the person

they really needed to get is Connolly,

that's the case

they're trying to make.

So John Martorano who had never met

John Connolly, never met him,

goes to them and says, "I can link

John Connolly to the Wheeler murder.

And I can link John Connolly

to the Callahan murder."

Man:
The defendant John Connolly,

he's just another member of the gang.

They pay him money,

he gives them information.

English:
They arrive at the conclusion

that Martorano is gold

as a witness and that he can

single-handedly help us

put away John Connolly

and maybe Jimmy Bulger

if Jimmy Bulger ever turns up.

Man:
Who did you believe you were

going to be protecting,

by killing Callahan?

I was protecting myself,

Whitey Bulger, Stevie Flemmi,

and John Connolly.

McDonald:
They need John Connolly

to be the scapegoat.

They've got to have

Connolly as the corrupt agent,

with respect to all

of what went on in Boston,

with respect to the top

echelon informant program,

they have to have someone to blame.

Why are you prosecuting Connolly

for the Callahan murder,

when you know

the killer is Martorano,

the guy who actually

pulled the trigger, for Pete's sake.

But they convicted John Connolly,

and then he was sentenced

for 40 years.

Kelly:
Martorano's plea agreement has

been roundly criticized for good reason.

Most people think he should have

gotten more than 12 years,

and we're no exception to that view.

He is in fact a ruthless killer,

but at the time we had no evidence

of his killing. And when he pled

guilty he not only got more time,

but he also led to a series of events,

he made cooperation fashionable.

Man:
Mr. Weeks, if you will

come forward, please.

I was arrested November 17, '99

and they were telling me

what it came down to,

make it really quick and simple,

is that it's a race.

It's either you or Stevie,

and you're going to get

the last seat on the bus,

but whichever one of youse

get up there first to make a deal

with the government

is going to get the best deal.

You know, what's Stevie gonna do?

Stevie's gonna give me up,

and say it was Kevin, and it was

this one and it was that one

that killed all these people,

it wasn't us.

You know, here's the bodies.

That's where they put them and stuff.

I said no, there's no way I'm

taking it up the ass for them.

So I made the deal first.

I figured you can't rat on a rat.

Kelly:
Kevin Weeks, his plea was

a critical turning point in this case

because he literally led us

to the bodies, he brought us

to the burial grounds where we saw

for ourselves Bulger's handiwork.

Carney:
Kevin Weeks, five murders,

he does five years.

John Martorano, for 20 murders

he got a sentence of 12 years,

plus they let him keep money,

keep property.

They got him a waiver of

the death penalty in Oklahoma,

and a waiver of the death penalty

in Florida.

They paid his commissary fees

while he was in prison,

and when he got out,

gave him a $20,000 check.

Man:
A quarter of a million dollar

advance for selling the movie rights

to his life story,

$110,000 or something advance

for the book he co-wrote.

- Man 2:
The state calls John Morris.

- Man 3:
John Morris, please.

I would say the most scandalous deal

that the government made

was with one of their own

and that was John Morris,

who was John Connolly's

equally corrupt supervisor,

and who got people killed,

and he got no time, nothing.

John had told me

that these guys really like you

and if you ever needed anything

to just ask.

Man:
John Morris is corrupt an FBI

official as one could possibly be,

not a minute in jail.

He's a wine consultant now.

I didn't want what happened to me

to happen to other agents.

Mr. Flemmi, if you'll stand up

and raise your right hand,

Linda will swear you in.

Flemmi wound up making his deal

when it was really too late

to get a good deal, so he wound up

getting a life sentence,

and now he's become kind of

a professional witness

for the government, and he's just a

windup doll who says what he believes

he needs to say so that

the government will give him

better accommodations in prison,

they'll do little things for him

that will make the fact that

he's spending the rest of his life

in prison a little more comfortable.

He's a pathetic creation

of the system at this point.

Carney:
Do you see the defendant

Mr. Connolly in the courtroom?

I see him, yes.

Good-looking gentleman,

he's got a nice haircut.

I know him very well.

English:
These guys, they're all

violating the gangster code.

They all became some version of

a rat by testifying against people.

They've all had to reconcile it

in their conscience

why they did this and they've

all created their little stories,

their own internal fictions,

of why they've had to do what they do.

Davis:
The state of Massachusetts

has got more rats in it.

It's like an infested rat hole.

The Irish mob, every one of them,

They were stumbling over each other

just to rat.

They walk around talking big, tough guy

sh*t, and they're f***ing rats.

The federal court right here,

doesn't it look like a mouse hole?

(laughing)

- Man:
Good for rats, right?

- Yeah.

That's where all the rats go.

Woman:
It was a tense reunion

18 years in the making.

Finally, James Whitey Bulger

and his partner Stephen

"The Rifleman" Flemmi were reunited

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