Whitey Bulger's secret manuscript revealed as associate appeals conviction

Long after the mob boss was killed in prison, the words of James “Whitey” Bulger could shake one of Boston’s most notorious FBI corruption cases

Long after the mob boss was killed in prison, the words of James “Whitey” Bulger could shake one of Boston’s most notorious FBI corruption cases.

Newly released court documents reveal a secret, handwritten manuscript from Bulger that claims former FBI agent John Connolly was framed.

Connolly is appealing his 2008 conviction for assisting Bulger in the 1982 murder of John Callahan in Florida. His lawyers argue that during past appeals, the defense never saw evidence that could have changed everything: The pages, which were seized when Bulger was captured in California in 2011.

“Whitey and Stevie [Flemmi] take him upstairs in a bar in South Boston and put a machine gun to him and say, ‘You’re going to get us this $400,000 that Callahan, who’s now dead, owes us,’” Peter Mullane, Connolly’s attorney, told NBC10 Boston.

He said the manuscript portrays his client as a fall guy.