TRUE GRIT: Former state police Lt. Col. Jack O’Donovan, at right with a gun, died Friday at the age of 81. O’Donovan was a thorn in the side of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger.
[From article]
"in 1981, a rider was anonymously added to the state budget that would have forced O’D to retire early.
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O’D met at least once with Whitey, and Whitey reported back to his employees, er handlers, at the FBI about how little respect O’D allegedly had for the G-men. As an FBI agent wrote of O’D: “He made very disparaging and derogatory statements about the professionalism of the FBI.
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O’D put the famous bug in the Lancaster Street garage. The FBI told Whitey. O’D went crazy, and started bad-mouthing the rat, gangster/FBI agent Zip Connolly, now doing life in Florida for second-degree murder. The Bulger mob had to stop O’D, because they had big plans for Zip — they were planning to make Whitey’s snitch the police commissioner of Boston."
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?&articleid=1061118426&format=&page=1&listingType=col#articleFull
The cop who gave Whitey ‘heartburn’
Boston Herald
By Howie Carr
Monday, March 19, 2012
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[From article]
"O’Donovan, who worked to build a case against Bulger as the FBI protected him, was among the troopers who famously bugged Bulger’s conversations with Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi in a Lancaster Street garage in 1980. But that attempt to bring Bulger down was thwarted after now-disgraced former FBI agent John Connolly tipped off Bulger."
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220318former_trooper_who_worked_to_bring_down_bulger_dies_at_81/
Former trooper who worked to bring down Bulger dies at 81
Boston Herald
By Erin Smith
Sunday, March 18, 2012
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