Brutal_ The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob - Kevin Weeks [134]
On February 4, 2005, my oldest brother, Billy, drove down to Allen-wood to bring me home. It was a beautiful winter day. We left at eight in the morning and got to Massachusetts at three in the afternoon. When we got to Billy’s house, I didn’t want a beer or a steak dinner. All I wanted was to go for a walk someplace where there were no walls. I got out of the car and went, by myself, for a long walk.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
STEVIE FLEMMI Pled out to ten murders in February 2004 and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
JOHN CONNOLLY Convicted in 2002 of one count of racketeering, two counts of obstruction of justice, and one count of making a false statement to the FBI and sentenced to 121 months. Now facing first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in Florida for allegedly providing information that led to the death of former World Jai Alai president John Callahan.
JOHNNY MARTORANO Sentenced to fourteen years in 2004. He’ll be out with time served in 2007.
RICHIE SCHNEIDERHAN: Sentenced to eighteen months in 2003 for obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
FORMER FBI AGENT PAUL RICO: Died in an Oklahoma jail in January 2004, at age seventy-eight, while awaiting trial for Roger Wheeler’s murder.
FORMER FBI AGENT JOHN MORRIS Retired from the FBI.
KEVIN O’NEIL Home with his family after he did eleven months for racketeering, extortion, and money laundering. Back working in developing and selling real estate.
FRANKIE SALEMME Got out before me but was rearrested on obstruction of justice charge in November 2004.
JIM BULGER Still fine and soaking up the sun.
KEVIN WEEKS Happy to have a second chance in life.
AFTERWORD
In the year since Brutal was published I’ve been in the news more than I expected and certainly more than I wanted. But I wasn’t alone. There has been a good deal of news about Jimmy Bulger and the men who were involved with him. Sometimes it seems as if no matter how many questions were answered in Brutal, more keep getting asked. Jimmy’s still on the run, but for those he left behind, both the living and the dead, the story never dies.
THE JOHN MCINTYRE TRIAL
Seventeen civil suits were brought against the federal government by alleged victims of Whitey Bulger. Ten were dismissed on grounds they were filed too late. In June 2006, the first of these went to trial. This $50 million wrongful death suit was brought by the family of John McIntyre—his brother Christopher and his seventy-seven year old mother Emily. McIntyre had been thirty-two when Jimmy and Stevie Flemmi killed him on November 30, 1984 at 799 East Third Street. I had led the authorities to his grave in January 2000.
The focus of this eighteen-day civil suit, heard in front of U.S. District Judge Reginald C. Lindsay, not in front of a jury, was then-FBI agent John Connolly’s ties to Jimmy. The McIntyres were trying to prove that their relative was killed because Connolly leaked it to Jimmy that McIntyre was cooperating against him. Stevie, who had struck a deal with the government sparing him the death penalty and is now serving a life sentence with no chance of parole, had already admitted to killing McIntyre, as well as nine other people. Stevie was the first witness and he was on the stand for four days. He testified that Connolly warned Jimmy that someone had implicated the two of them in the unsuccessful plot to ship weapons to the IRA aboard the Gloucester-based Valhalla in September 1984.
At the trial, I saw Flemmi for the first time since my last visit to him in the Plymouth jail in 1999. This time it certainly didn’t qualify as a visit. Before I testified, I was walked by the courtroom while Stevie was on the stand. I looked through the windows on the courtroom door and saw him clearly. He looked the same, maybe a little grayer, and was wearing a suit. By the time I got into the courtroom, however,