Miami, FL
Former FBI agent John Connolly has been sentenced to 40 years for the 1982 mob-related killing of a Miami gambling executive that was connected to the killing of a Tulsa businessman a year earlier.
Judge Stanford Blake imposed the sentence Thursday after rejecting defense claims that the statute of limitations expired on Connolly's second-degree murder conviction. Prosecutors said that didn't apply because a gun was used in the killing of 45-year-old John Callahan.
Trial testimony showed Connolly provided information to Boston mobsters leading to Callahan's killing by a hit man.
Mob bosses feared Callahan would implicate them in the 1981 killing of businessman Roger Wheeler in Tulsa.
The 68-year-old Connolly is serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for his corrupt dealings with Boston's Winter Hill Gang.
No comments:
Post a Comment