Is john connolly still alive

The great tragedy in all the many real and imagined stories about James J. Bulger, “Whitey,”  the man who the media and book writers tell us terrorized the City of Boston for decades even though few in the city knew of his existence until he had fled from the city, a profound paradox proposed by people profiting from the pernicious proposition, begging the question can you be terrorized by something you do not know, is the dire situation retired FBI Agent John J. Connolly finds himself entrapped in because he had Whitey as an informant.

Remember the words of the prosecutor Fred Wyshak who when asked why John Connolly went wrong, assuming that he did which I do not, said: “he got too close to the Bulgers and South Boston.” Bulgers? We know of career criminal Whitey. What other Bulger is he referring to? Some suggest it was Whitey’s younger brother “Billy” who if he had not been as pure as the driven snow when it first envelopes the land would surely have been indicted by Wyshak. But because Billy led an honorable and upright life despite all the baubles, bangles, and beads proff

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