(WHDH) — Notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s former FBI handler is requesting to be released from a Florida prison due to the coronavirus pandemic.
An attorney for John Connolly says the former agent has medical conditions that put him at high risk of contracting COVID-19.
Connolly is currently serving a 40-year sentence for helping Bulger kill a Florida gambling executive.
Bulger was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 after being found guilty of 11 murders. He was killed by inmates in federal prison in 2018.
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