Thomas J. Foley - Most Wanted. Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected

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When Whitey was captured, and flown back to Boston, he was the talk of the city, and much of the country, too. But it wasnt for another month that I laid eyes on him myself. He was just a wisp of a guy shuffling around, his rough voice all that was left of the vitality that had once terrified an entire city. Just seeing how old Whitey was as he sat, his shoulders curved, on that chairit reminded me of how long hed been gone, and I remembered why he hadnt been rotting in prison as he deserved. Why someone like Whitey Bulger had been able to stay in business for so long, killing, extorting, dealing drugs, terrorizing. How could it still fester, wrecking more lives, like those of the families of the victims sitting around me? I was pleased to see him captured, no question. But what kept coming back as I looked at this old man was the cold fury that had so often surged through me on this case.

In 2004, THOMAS J. FOLEY was awarded the United States Attorney Generals Award for Exceptional Service. Since retiring from the Massachusetts state police in 2004, Foley has served on the Governors Council, which reviews and approves the governors appointments to the courts, and teaches justice studies at Southern New Hampshire University.

JOHN SEDGWICK has spent most of his life in Boston. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, including two celebrated novels and the family memoir In My Blood . A longtime contributor to GQ, Newsweek , and The Atlantic , he has written more than five hundred magazine articles, including the first national expos of the exploits of Whitey Bulger in GQ in 1992.

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JUNE 23, 2011 . The news of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulgers captureafter sixteen years on the FBIs Most Wanted listswept the nation. Many breathed a sigh of relief. But for Thomas J. Foley, a former Massachusetts state police colonel and the investigator who sparked Bulgers flight from Boston, the moment was bittersweet. The FBI may have caught Bulger, but as Foley had painfully discovered almost two decades before, they were also responsible for his escape.

It has been known that Whitey Bulger was a secret informant for the FBI, but it has never been revealeduntil nowthat the FBI was actually actively protecting Bulger from Foley, effectively derailing Foleys efforts to stop Bulgers horrific crime sprees time and again. At one point, the FBI even presented Foley with a plaque at a holiday party that read the Most Hated Man in Law Enforcement, a not-so-subtle suggestion that he and his team should lay off their investigation.

Most Wanted is a true-life thriller, and Foley is the hero at its center. His investigative efforts resulted in criminal convictions of a half-dozen of Bostons most notorious thugs and also led to the conviction of John Connolly, one of the FBI agents who abetted Bulger; Connolly is now serving a forty-year prison sentence. In this book, Foley, a cops cop, honestly recounts how his wide-eyed admiration for the nations top law enforcement agency was gradually transformed by dark realities he didnt want to believe.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Foley, Thomas J.

Most wanted : pursuing Whitey Bulger, the murderous mob chief the FBI secretly protected / Thomas J. Foley and John Sedgwick.

p. cm.

Includes index.

1. Bulger, Whitey, 1929 2. GangstersMassachusettsBostonBiography.
3. MurderersMassachusettsBostonBiography. 4. Organized crimeMassachusettsBostonBiography. I. Sedgwick, John, 1954 II. Title.

HV6452.M4F65 2012

364.1092dc23 2012005940

ISBN 978-1-4516-6391-4 (print)

ISBN 978-1-4516-6394-5 (eBook)

I want to dedicate this book to my wife, Marguerite. She has been my wife and best friend for thirty-five years. Without her love, support, and understanding during a very demanding career, I would not have been successful.TF

For my moll, R.JS

CONTENTS

Where Im Coming From

I was dead asleep when the call came in that June night in 2011, and I had to grope for the phone by the bed. It was Colonel Marian McGovern, the superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, my old job. She was telling me something about Whitey Bulger, but I couldnt quite follow it.

Sorry. Can you say that again? I asked. What was that? I was sure I was dreaming.

Whitey Bulger, Tommy, she repeated. He was captured in California.

Wait. What? I was fully awake now. My wife pulled herself up in bed beside me.

The colonel still had to say it all one more time before it could sink in.

When did this happen?

About an hour ago. The FBI captured him in Santa Monica. I got a call from Special Agent DesLauriers. He was in charge of the FBIs Boston office. I thought youd want a heads-up.