(WHDH) — Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi is set to make an appeal for compassionate release to a Florida parole board on Wednesday.
Whitey Bulger’s former henchman has served 26 years of his life sentence so far and the 87-year-old gangster cites the dangers of coronavirus as a reason he should be released.
Flemmi was convicted in a number of murders but avoided the death penalty by testifying against Bulger.
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