Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected

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The riveting account of former head of Massachusetts State Police Thomas J. Foleys twenty-year pursuit of murderous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, and of Foleys key role in exposing the FBIs protection of Bulgers criminal empire.June 23, 2011. The news of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulgers capture after sixteen years on the FBIs Most Wanted list swept the nation. Many breathed a sigh of relief. But for Thomas J. Foley, a former Massachusetts state police colonel and the investigator who sparked Bulgers flight from Boston, the moment was bittersweet. The FBI may have caught Bulger, but as Foley had painfully discovered almost two decades before, they were also responsible for his escape. It has been known that Whitey Bulger was a secret informant for the FBI, but it has never been revealed until now that the FBI was actually actively protecting Bulger from Foley, effectively derailing Foleys efforts to stop Bulgers horrific crime sprees time and again. At one point, the FBI even presented Foley with a plaque at a holiday party that read the Most Hated Man in Law Enforcement, a not-so-subtle suggestion that he and his team should lay off their investigation. Most Wanted is a true-life thriller, and Foley is the hero at its center. His investigative efforts resulted in criminal convictions of a half-dozen of Bostons most notorious thugs and also led to the conviction of John Connolly, one of the FBI agents who abetted Bulger; Connolly is now serving a forty-year prison sentence. In this book, Foley, a cops cop, honestly recounts how his wide-eyed admiration for the nations top law enforcement agency was gradually transformed by dark realities he didnt want to believe.

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