11.20.2003
Former UMass Prez Cleared By House Committee (UPDATE)
[l to r: reporter Dan Rea, former UMass president and Massachusetts senate president William Bulger, and UMass Boston Chancellor Jo Ann Gora]
AP: "A House committee concluded Thursday that the FBI shielded from prosecution known killers and other criminals that it used as informants to investigate organized crime in New England...
...The panel also concluded there is not enough evidence to find that former University of Massachusetts President William Bulger used his political authority to punish those who investigated his brother, mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger, who is sought in connection with 21 murders..."
MORE: The Globe, in its fifth and six grafs: "The report also states that the committee failed to substantiate allegations that one of the probe's key witnesses, former Senate president William M. Bulger, received any favors from the FBI or used his power to punish those who investigated his informant brother, South Boston underworld boss James 'Whitey' Bulger.
It does, however, allege that some of William Bulger's testimony before the committee was inconsistent with the testimony of other witnesses...
...'This is an exoneration,' William Bulger's attorney, Thomas Kiley, said yesterday. 'This report gives the lie to all of the street legends that people have passed along forever.'
Kiley called it unfortunate that the committee spent so much time pursuing his client that it may have distracted them from their legitimate inquiry into FBI wrongdoing.
The Boston Herald had a separate article.
SEE ALSO: Lax security found at many college labs -- "Government investigators found widespread potential for bioterrorism mischief at many college laboratories funded by the Agriculture Department, including an unlocked freezer supervised only by a college lecturer and containing a biological agent for a plague more severe than the Black Death..." according to the AP wires.
Ammo for those who oppose BU's bioterror lab.
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