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CRIME WORLD Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the murdering mobster as an FBI informer
Nicola Tallant chats to Brian Kelly, the former US state prosecutor who was the lead counsel against mobster Whitey Bulger
BOSTON gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s role as an FBI informant is a lesson for police forces across the world in how NOT to handle their touts.
Brian Kelly, the former US state prosecutor who was the lead counsel against Bulger, tells this week’s Crime World podcast that the mobster murdered at will, often using information leaked to him by his handlers.
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