After reading his book, I was suspicious of this guy. He seemed to apologize for not being able to expose the criminal conduct of the Boston FBI.
[From article]
Fitzie was a defense witness for Whitey Bulger in 2013. And now Fitzie has been charged with lying about, well, almost everything he said under oath.
At trial, he was disemboweled by prosecutor Brian Kelly. It was the funniest couple of days of the trial. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel. To a battle of wits, Fitzie came unarmed.
One of his claims, for which he may now join Whitey in Club Fed, was that he arrested Mafia boss Jerry Angiulo.
[. . .]
By his second day of testimony, Fitzpatrick was falling back on the amnesia defense. Like Whitey’s brother Billy, to the best of his recollection he did not recall. Or as Fitzie sputtered to Kelly of his previous day’s testimony: “You’re asking me to recall something that I may not recall.”
Kelly: “Are you on medication or anything?”
Fitzpatrick: “I am on medication, yes.”
Kelly: “Does it affect your memory?”
Fitzpatrick: “I don’t believe so, but I’m on medication.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/04/carr_prosecutor_could_smell_a_rat
Carr: Prosecutor could smell a rat
Friday, May 1, 2015
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald
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[From article]
A former FBI agent has been charged with multiple counts of perjury in connection with his testimony in the 2013 trial of gangster and mass murderer James “Whitey” Bulger.
Robert Fitzpatrick, 75, of Rhode Island, “did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due administration of justice in that he knowingly made a false and misleading declaration ... before a federal court in the District of Massachusetts, with intent to obstruct and impede the Bulger trial,” a federal indictment alleges.
Fitzpatrick, who was led into court with his wrists handcuffed behind his back, pleaded not guilty this afternoon to six counts of perjury and six counts of obstruction of justice.
“Mr. Fitzpatrick adamantly maintains his innocence and looks forward to challenging the government’s accusations as soon as possible,” his attorney Robert Goldstein told reporters.
Fitzpatrick, a retired assistant special agent in charge of the FBI office in Boston, turned himself into U.S. Marshals this morning after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
According to the indictment, Fitzpatrick — author of “Betrayal, Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought To Bring Him Down” — has long “falsely held himself out as a whistleblower who tried to end the FBI’s relationship with Bulger.”
In fact, according to prosecutors, during the course of Bulger’s trial, Fitzpatrick made “false material declarations designed to aid Bulger’s defense.”
[. . .]
Fitzpatrick served in the Boston office from 1980-1986, supervising the Organized Crime Squad. From approximately 1975 through 1990, Bulger was an informant for the squad, in cahoots with FBI agent John Connolly, who is currently in prison in Florida.
Fitzgerald told jurors during his testimony he was brought to Boston in 1981 to plug intelligence leaks in the office he said were “causing a lot of investigations to go south.” He also testified he did not believe Bulger was a secret top-echelon informant for the FBI.
Bulger was indicted for racketeering and other crimes in 1995, and fled. While on the lam, he was indicted for 19 murders. He remained at large until 2011, when he was brought back to Boston for his historic trial.
Robert Fitzpatrick, 75, of Rhode Island, “did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due administration of justice in that he knowingly made a false and misleading declaration ... before a federal court in the District of Massachusetts, with intent to obstruct and impede the Bulger trial,” a federal indictment alleges.
Fitzpatrick, who was led into court with his wrists handcuffed behind his back, pleaded not guilty this afternoon to six counts of perjury and six counts of obstruction of justice.
“Mr. Fitzpatrick adamantly maintains his innocence and looks forward to challenging the government’s accusations as soon as possible,” his attorney Robert Goldstein told reporters.
Fitzpatrick, a retired assistant special agent in charge of the FBI office in Boston, turned himself into U.S. Marshals this morning after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
According to the indictment, Fitzpatrick — author of “Betrayal, Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought To Bring Him Down” — has long “falsely held himself out as a whistleblower who tried to end the FBI’s relationship with Bulger.”
In fact, according to prosecutors, during the course of Bulger’s trial, Fitzpatrick made “false material declarations designed to aid Bulger’s defense.”
[. . .]
Fitzpatrick served in the Boston office from 1980-1986, supervising the Organized Crime Squad. From approximately 1975 through 1990, Bulger was an informant for the squad, in cahoots with FBI agent John Connolly, who is currently in prison in Florida.
Fitzgerald told jurors during his testimony he was brought to Boston in 1981 to plug intelligence leaks in the office he said were “causing a lot of investigations to go south.” He also testified he did not believe Bulger was a secret top-echelon informant for the FBI.
Bulger was indicted for racketeering and other crimes in 1995, and fled. While on the lam, he was indicted for 19 murders. He remained at large until 2011, when he was brought back to Boston for his historic trial.
https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/04/ex_fbi_official_charged_for_allegedly_lying_during_whitey_bulger
Ex-FBI official charged for allegedly lying during Whitey Bulger trial
Thursday, April 30, 2015
By: Laurel J. Sweet
Ex-FBI official charged for allegedly lying during Whitey Bulger trial
Thursday, April 30, 2015
By: Laurel J. Sweet
Boston Herald
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