FBI agent admits he lied in Whitey Bulger testimony

New York (AFP) - A previous FBI operator conceded Monday to prevarication and impediment of equity, conceding he lied amid the 2013 trial of onetime mafia supervisor James "Whitey" Bulger in Boston.

At the trial, previous FBI right hand specialist in control Robert Fitzpatrick, 76, had guaranteed he had attempted to separate the FBI's ties with the Boston hoodlum who once served as a witness and target him for indictment however had been overruled by his bosses.

Fitzpatrick conceded generally speaking against him. "Mr Fitzpatrick's supplication of liable all in all clarifies that there are results to lying in government court," US Attorney Carmen Ortiz said in an announcement. "For this situation, the way that the litigant was a high-positioning previous law authorization official made his behavior much more grievous."

Onetime mafia boss James "Whitey" Bulger, 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 after being found guilty of 11 murders (AFP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

As right hand specialist in control, Fitzpatrick administered the composed wrongdoing program in Boston somewhere around 1981 and 1986 - a period amid which Bulger is blamed for having been included in eight homicides, while serving as a FBI witness. On the off chance that US District Judge F. Dennis Saylor acknowledges the request assention, Fitzpatrick confronts 24 months' probation, a $12,500 fine and an uncommon evaluation of $1,200.

Sentencing was set for August 5.
Bulger, 86, was sentenced to life in jail in the wake of being discovered liable of 11 killings. He had been on the keep running for a considerable length of time before his capture.

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