Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Page #6

Man:
During a rapid-fire and sometimes

intense cross-examination,

disgraced former FBI supervisor

John Morris

admitted taking thousands

in cash from Bulger.

Man 2:
Mr. Morris, you were Mr. Bulger's

paid FBI informant, weren't you?

Morris:
That's not correct.

He did give me money,

but I was not his paid informant.

- Man 2:
Gave you money?

- Morris:
Yes.

- Man 2:
Gave you gifts?

- Morris:
Yes.

Man 2:
You got a case of wine,

didn't you, from Mr. Connolly

- In the basement of the federal office?

- Morris:
That's correct.

- Man 2:
Did you throw it away?

- Morris:
No, I kept it.

You know, seeing a day

like today where, it's not clear,

you see, you see thoroughly,

despicably corrupt FBI agents

like John Morris, a supervisor.

You know, with just a moral...

I mean, he was a moral coward.

Boeri:
And you see him,

and you see Connolly taking advantage

of him in all his weakness,

to bring him into the group.

You see that, and you see

what was allowed.

And so, the real story here,

is that our government

enabled killers to run free

in this city, you know?

Bulger used to wake up

in South Boston,

and from South Boston

you can look across,

and he would say, "I own that town."

And he really did.

And he owned it because,

he was allowed to turn

the Federal Bureau of Investigation into

the Bulger Bureau of Investigation.

He put his tentacles into the Bureau

and he turned it into something

that worked for him.

And it was because they were all

crazed about getting the Mafia,

that they enabled the Irish Godfather

to run the show here.

And he was far more dangerous

than the Italians.

So what we need to do is get inside

a little bit and talk about

how the FBI works,

what the roles of certain people were

like Mr. Connolly and Mr. Morris.

And the more we can

keep you on the stand,

from my perspective the better,

because hopefully, it will be able to

really illustrate the effort you made,

so they see the good side

of law enforcement.

You recognized it was a problem, you

tried to do something to save lives,

and because they were

pursuing whatever agenda they were,

- They shut you down.

- Can I be candid with you?

I think the whole thing was a con.

I think at some point

they get in over their heads,

and their success was wrapped

around Bulger, to the point where he

had to be validated,

he had to be made

into this informant

that gave them all this information.

Brennan:
That's the myth.

That's the myth.

Fitzpatrick:
I had a fascinating career.

I worked organized crime,

I worked fugitives.

And in Mississippi, I had to work

the Ku Klux Klan, bombings.

And we ended

the bombings in Mississippi.

Then I was

transferred back to Memphis.

Martin Luther King came to Memphis

and I was told

that King had just been shot.

We found the gun

and through the fingerprints

we identified James Earl Ray,

and we arrested him in London.

In Miami, we developed a case

called ABSCAM.

ABSCAM turned out to be one of the

largest white-collar crime cases ever.

And we arrested senators,

a sitting senator.

So when I went back to headquarters,

and the Boston problem was going on,

I was told they needed somebody

with this background

to be sent to Boston. And my mission

was to find out what is going on

between the Mass State Police,

the Boston Police,

the local police, and the FBl,

and how come they're not

getting along together.

They had territorial issues.

The state police was blaming the FBI

for cavorting with criminals,

because they had seen Connolly and

Morris with Bulger and Flemmi.

So they formed the opinion that the

agents were doing something bad.

Well, as it turned out, they were.

But they didn't know it then,

and I didn't know it then.

So I go out and interview Bulger

and assess him, a suitability,

if you will.

I arrive at Bulger's place,

and met at the door by Bulger.

He's got a baseball cap on,

he's got sunglasses,

he's got a muscle shirt.

I hold out my paw, my hand,

and he doesn't take it.

Okay, you know. So I look at my

empty hand and I follow him in.

The place is dark. And we walk

in the back. I say, "Look, Bulger,

I'm here to find out what

you're doing for us.

What are you doing for us?"

And he gets angry. And about

that time, Connolly pops out.

And remember this was supposed to be

mano a mano, one-on-one.

And I get very angry. And I look over

and he says, "Hi, Fitzy, how you doing?"

And I'm saying to myself, "Oh,"

you know, "this does not look good."

But then we have

the conversation about him.

I finally get the conversation back.

And what he tells me is that

he's not an informant,

that he has his own informants, and that

he pays them, they don't pay him,

and that he's the head of a gang,

and that he runs the gang,

that he's not going to testify.

Now all those elements

are elements to me that I'm going to

close this guy as an informant.

If you're an informant for the FBI

and you're the head of the gang,

then the FBI is validating the gang.

You're actually part of the gang

and the management process.

So to me, he's a big problem.

Close him, get rid of him.

And that's what I go back

and tell my boss.

From that point on,

I get resistance.

I'm more or less told, "You shut up.

You're not allowed

to talk about this."

Murphy:
I was a very young reporter,

but I had covered this huge Mafia trial

in Boston, it was the biggest ever.

It was, um... The FBI had planted a bug

in the north end headquarters

of a guy named Jerry Angiulo.

He was the underboss

of the Mafia,

and ran everything in Boston.

And he and his brothers,

the whole hierarchy went on trial,

it was an eight month trial.

And there was all this evidence

of murders, and corruption,

and they had tapes of Jerry Angiulo

bragging about murders.

But they also had him talking about,

"I have a couple of guys

that will do anything for us

named Whitey and Stevie,

they'll kill anyone we ask them to."

And so at the end of that trial,

it was a huge victory

for the FBI in Boston.

They had just wiped out

the New England family,

decimated them.

Yesterday, a federal grand jury

sitting at Boston

returned a 20 count indictment

charging seven individuals,

including Gennaro Angiulo.

Murphy:
The Boston FBl,

they were heroes, and John Connolly

was at the heart of that, he was

the guy with the most informants

the most top echelon informants.

So as the Mafia is being decimated,

stepping into the vacuum

are Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi.

And I'm asking the New England

strike force leader, Jerry O'Sullivan,

why aren't you

going after Whitey and Stevie?

You've already done the Mafia

repeatedly, what about these guys?

And the answer is, "Oh, well,

they're not the threat

that the Mafia is, the Mafia

is an international organization,

Whitey's this local hoodlum.

We're the New England

Organized Crime Strike Force,

we go after the big guys."

Well, Whitey was

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