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Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial #840016
04/30/15 12:12 PM
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A former FBI agent who was once second in command of the agency's Boston office lied on the stand during gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's trial and overstated his professional accomplishments, federal officials said Thursday in announcing a perjury case against him.

Robert Fitzpatrick, 75, surrendered to U.S. marshals after learning there was a warrant for his arrest.

Fitzpatrick, the first defense witness called by Bulger's attorneys during his 2013 trial, testified he tried to persuade the FBI to terminate Bulger as an informant because Bulger didn't appear to be helping its mission to gather information on the Mafia. Fitzpatrick said his bosses didn't agree with him.

Prosecutors suggested he exaggerated that claim to sell copies of a book he wrote about Bulger.

Fitzpatrick pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday afternoon on six counts of perjury and six counts of obstruction of justice.

Prosecutors did not seek to hold him on bail, agreeing with his lawyer that he could be released on a $50,000 unsecured bond.

"Mr. Fitzpatrick adamantly maintains his innocence and looks forward to challenging the government's accusations as soon as possible," his lawyer, Robert Goldstein, said after the brief hearing.

Fitzpatrick told Bulger jurors that in 1981, about six years after Bulger began working an informant, he was given the task of assessing whether the mobster was providing the FBI with useful information.

Fitzpatrick insisted that he repeatedly sought to end the FBI's relationship with Bulger, particularly after Bulger was considered a suspect in two 1982 killings.

During the trial, prosecutors suggested that Fitzpatrick exaggerated his claim.

"Weren't you more concerned with your own career rather than rocking the boat?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly asked Fitzpatrick on the stand.

Following his 2013 testimony, Fitzpatrick told reporters outside court, "I went in there and told the truth and that's what I've been doing for the last 25 years."

The 85-year-old Bulger is serving two life sentences after his 2013 racketeering conviction tying him to 11 murders and other gangland crimes in the 1970s and '80s.

The indictment against Fitzpatrick alleges that from 1998 until the present, Fitzpatrick "has falsely held himself out as a whistleblower who tried to end the FBI's relationship with Bulger."

He was accused of making false statements "designed to aid Bulger's defense." The indictment also alleges that he made false statements to enhance his own credibility as a former FBI official by making false claims about his professional accomplishments.

Bulger's lawyers argued during his trial that he was not an informant, and Fitzpatrick testified that Bulger denied being an FBI informant to him.

The indictment says Bulger never made that denial.

Fitzpatrick, of Charlestown, Rhode Island, worked for the FBI from 1965 to 1986. In 1980, he was assigned as an assistant special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Boston division. In that position, he supervised the division's organized crime squad.

Prosecutors say Bulger was an informant for the squad from approximately 1975 through 1990.

The indictment says that in May 1986, Fitzpatrick was demoted and reassigned to the Providence, Rhode Island, field office. He left the FBI shortly after that, in December 1986.


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Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840029
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Wow and the families were taking up for Fitzpatrick during the trial too as they thought he was one of the good guys in the FBI and come to find out he was lying like the rest. Man that office up there was flat out dirty from top to bottom.

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840036
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Might be more to it than that. Read his book betrayal. Three sides to every story

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840042
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I have never read his book, but from the sounds of his b.s. I'm not sure I want to at this point. Was it any good and what all did he talk about?

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840043
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I am generally skeptical but the book ws a decent read. He talks about the FBI corruption and how they allowed Bulger to go nuts for years

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840045
04/30/15 02:17 PM
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I wonder why he lied then? He made it known he had his book out during the trial. This could be more of the Feds trying to make it look like they are clean up there now.

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840096
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I read his book, I thought it was a good read. I've read four or five books on Bulger and they were all excellent.

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840097
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Does whitey get retrial. Materfact did what ever crazy appeal every monster in a Rico case get affirmed or whatever the judge says in every Rico appeal right or wrong.

Re: Ex-FBI agent charged with perjury for Bulger trial [Re: helenwheels] #840177
05/01/15 09:35 AM
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Yea pmac they filed an appeal in August of 14 but I don't think a date has been set for the trial.


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