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John ‘Zip” Connolly

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday reinstated the 2008 murder conviction of Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger‘s longtime FBI handler for providing information the gangster used to carry out a 1982 hit.

The state’s full Third District Court of Appeals reversed its own decision of a year ago, which had found that the former agent, John Connolly, had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in the murder of John Callahan, the president of sports betting operation World Jai-Alai.

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