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McIntyre Ex Rel. Estate of McIntyre v. United States

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided October 16, 2008No. 07-1663, 07-1664PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

This case is another chapter in the saga of the relationship between the FBI’s Boston Office and two organized crime figures, James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen Flemmi, whose unlawful, violent conduct in that city spanned three decades. Following an eighteen-day bench trial featuring nine witnesses and thousands of pages of exhibits, the district court concluded that former FBI agent John Connolly was acting within the scope of his employment when he leaked the identity of an informant, John McIntyre, resulting in McIntyre’s brutal murder by Bulger, Flemmi and their…

2Cases cited24 opinions

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3Cited by27 opinions

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