MIAMI, May 5 (UPI) -- A Former FBI agent faces state charges of first-degree murder from a 1982 Florida slaying, which could extend his current 10-year prison term to life.
John J. Connolly Jr., 64, convicted by a federal jury in 2002 for obstruction of justice and racketeering for protecting longtime FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, was charged Wednesday in the mob killing of John Callahan, whose body was found in the trunk of a car at Miami International Airport Aug. 2, 1982, the Boston Globe reported.
Connolly "didn't pull the trigger, but it was his guiding hand that gave the information," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
The federal jury that put Connolly in prison acquitted him of providing information to Bulger and Flemmi that prompted them to kill Callahan and two others, but that does not preclude the filing of state charges.
"I have absolutely no question that he's not only not guilty, but that this is contrived," said Edward Lonergan, one of Connolly's attorneys.
