Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down by Fitzpatrick Robert & Land Jon

Author:Fitzpatrick, Robert & Land, Jon [Fitzpatrick, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2012-01-02T22:00:00+00:00

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BOSTON, 1985

Remember Dave Twomey, the Strike Force attorney two of my agents had branded a leak? I did and I’d never let go of my resolve to see him brought to justice.

I got my chance in early 1985 when a DEA agent named Vinton reported he’d recently heard the very same thing through one of his own informants. Specifically that Twomey might well be funneling information to Martin Boudreau to aid in the defense of his mob clients whom the Strike Force was trying to put away. So at long last we arrested Twomey on charges of accepting bribes and obstruction of justice, among others. In December 1986 he was “convicted of four violations of federal law arising out of his sale of confidential law enforcement information to a drug smuggler whom he had investigated in the course of his official duties.” (The decision was later upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which has appellate jurisdiction in Massachusetts.)

By all indications, though, Twomey wasn’t the only one leaking. We knew the Boston office of the FBI itself had been plagued by leaks for years, and I was about to learn where at least some of them may have originated.

In June of 1985, Tom McGeorge, an agent who handled my Public Corruption squad, asked to see me in private.

“You’re not gonna believe this, Fitz.”

“What?” I asked him.

“I think I know who’s been leaking. It’s Greenleaf.”

The way McGeorge said it, I don’t think he could believe it himself. I was flabbergasted and nearly fell out of my seat. But the intelligence McGeorge related to me indicated that Greenleaf had, like Twomey, met with defense attorney Martin Boudreau, formerly of the Strike Force under Jerry O’Sullivan and now a known lawyer for the wiseguys. Greenleaf, according to McGeorge, told Boudreau that a “witness” to the drug cartel was prepared to dime Whitey Bulger and others. Was that witness John McIntyre? I’ll never know. All we knew then was that McIntyre had disappeared and, in fact, had been labeled a fugitive. Whatever I and other agents suspected aside, we had no evidence of an underlying crime having resulted from that leak. McIntyre could have gone AWOL, after all. We looked for him for about a month, a touchy situation in itself since we couldn’t give away his informant status either. McIntyre, like Halloran, was a key witness in getting the goods on Bulger so we could arrest him.

At this point I did recall Martin Boudreau’s presence on the dock when the Ramsland sailed into port the year before. Someone had alerted him to the major drug bust we were about to make, and now it was becoming clear to me just who that leak may have been.

If McGeorge’s assertions were correct, Greenleaf was furnishing federal grand jury information to a defense attorney in violation of federal statutes. Committing the very serious crime of revealing informant information that could not only jeopardize a case, but also get an informant killed.

I told McGeorge to make out a full report.

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