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Mueller employed serial sexual offender and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as an informant after Epstein was convicted on dozens of charges.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/06/report-jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-and-conspiracy/</ref> Epstein's sentence was widely criticized as one of the most lenient in U.S. history for a repeat sexual offender.

Mueller employed serial sexual offender and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as an informant after Epstein was convicted on dozens of charges.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/06/report-jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-and-conspiracy/</ref> Epstein's sentence was widely criticized as one of the most lenient in U.S. history for a repeat sexual offender.

===Whitey Bulger===

==Whitey Bulger==

Whitey Bulger was convicted at the age of 81 of 19 murders during his lifetime career as a [[Boston]] crime boss. The actual number of killings Bulger was responsible for is likely much higher.<ref>The AP identified 11 killers believed to have committed 52 murders while under the Bureau’s protection from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. https://www.aim.org/aim-report/aim-report-did-mueller-know-hoovers-dark-secret/</ref> Bulger was an FBI informant against a rival gang. Robert Mueller and [[Bill Weld]] of the Boston U.S. Attorney's office were listed as witnesses for Bulger's defense.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335614/Trial-Boston-mob-boss-James-Whitey-Bulger-gets-underway-family-victims-say-look-eye.html</ref> Bulger claimed he was granted immunity. Bulger spent sixteen years on the run as number two on the FBI Most Wanted list, behind [[Osama bin Laden]]. While on the run witnesses and evidence against Bulger continued to disappear.  The federal government’s cozy dealings with Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill gang have produced widespread and long-lasting damage to the reputations of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.<ref>https://masslawyersweekly.com/2013/04/17/bulgers-immunity-defense-what-appearance-of-justice-requires/</ref><ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitey-bulgers-defense-to-reveal-widespread-fbi-complicity?ref=home</ref>

Whitey Bulger was convicted at the age of 81 of 19 murders during his lifetime career as a [[Boston]] crime boss. The actual number of killings Bulger was responsible for is likely much higher.<ref>The AP identified 11 killers believed to have committed 52 murders while under the Bureau’s protection from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. https://www.aim.org/aim-report/aim-report-did-mueller-know-hoovers-dark-secret/</ref> Bulger was an FBI informant against a rival gang. [[Robert Mueller]] and Bill Weld of the Boston U.S. Attorney's office were listed as witnesses for Bulger's defense.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335614/Trial-Boston-mob-boss-James-Whitey-Bulger-gets-underway-family-victims-say-look-eye.html</ref> Bulger claimed he was granted immunity.<ref>https://af11.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/howie-carr-weld-dukakis-and-others-deserve-bulger-blame/</ref><ref>https://www.bostonherald.com/2012/12/10/william-weld-unable-to-rule-out-whitey-immunity-claim/</ref>  Bulger spent sixteen years on the run as number two on the FBI Most Wanted list, behind [[Osama bin Laden]]. While on the run witnesses and evidence against Bulger continued to disappear.  The federal government’s cozy dealings with Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill gang have produced widespread and long-lasting damage to the reputations of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.<ref>https://masslawyersweekly.com/2013/04/17/bulgers-immunity-defense-what-appearance-of-justice-requires/</ref><ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitey-bulgers-defense-to-reveal-widespread-fbi-complicity?ref=home</ref>

Howie Carr of the ''Boston Globe'' wrote a book about Bulger and described how Bulger and his sidekick, Stevie "The Rifleman" Flemmi., strangled two of Flemmi’s 26-year-old girlfriends as Flemmi lured them to their deaths. One was a Flemmi step-daughter whom Flemmi had been molesting since she was 15. In each instance, Bulger and Flemmi used pliers to yank out the victims’ teeth and cut off their fingers. Andrew Krieg of the Justice Integrity Project notes, "This kind of blunt reporting about such crimes is widely known about Bulger in the Boston area. But the sheer depravity of many such crimes tends to get lost in standard news accounts for national audiences."<ref>[https://www.justice-integrity.org/287-fbi-confronts-its-demons-by-busting-mobster-whitey-bulger FBI Confronts Its Demons By Busting Mobster Whitey Bulger], Andrew Krieg, Justice Integrity Project.</ref>

Howie Carr of the ''Boston Globe'' wrote a book about Bulger and described how Bulger and his sidekick, Stevie "The Rifleman" Flemmi., strangled two of Flemmi’s 26-year-old girlfriends as Flemmi lured them to their deaths. One was a Flemmi step-daughter whom Flemmi had been molesting since she was 15. In each instance, Bulger and Flemmi used pliers to yank out the victims’ teeth and cut off their fingers. Andrew Krieg of the Justice Integrity Project notes, "This kind of blunt reporting about such crimes is widely known about Bulger in the Boston area. But the sheer depravity of many such crimes tends to get lost in standard news accounts for national audiences."<ref>[https://www.justice-integrity.org/287-fbi-confronts-its-demons-by-busting-mobster-whitey-bulger FBI Confronts Its Demons By Busting Mobster Whitey Bulger], Andrew Krieg, Justice Integrity Project.</ref>

The commissioner who maintained the four were innocent, framed by the FBI, and kept in prison by Mueller, was elected mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1995. The new mayor and his administration found themselves targets of Mueller and the FBI in public corruption probes.  

The commissioner who maintained the four were innocent, framed by the FBI, and kept in prison by Mueller, was elected mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1995. The new mayor and his administration found themselves targets of Mueller and the FBI in public corruption probes.  

In 2001 the four men were fully exonerated and compensated $100 million. The four had bern framed to protect another FBI informant whose brother did the actual killing. Two of the innocent men died in prison. The same year Mueller, who covered up FBI and DOJ abuses in Boston for two decades, was appointed FBI director.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140904190742-29817943-doj-complicity-and-cover-up-of-murders-involving-boston-fbi-agents</ref>

Amid allegations that FBI informants Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi had corrupted their FBI handlers, US Attorney [[John Durham]] was appointed as a special prosecutor in 1999. He oversaw a task force of FBI agents brought in from other offices to investigate the Boston office's handling of informants.  In December 2000, Durham revealed secret FBI documents that convinced a judge to vacate the 1968 murder convictions of of the three men who had been framed by the FBI.  

 

Two of the innocent men died in prison. The same year Mueller, who covered up FBI and DOJ abuses in Boston for two decades, was appointed FBI director.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140904190742-29817943-doj-complicity-and-cover-up-of-murders-involving-boston-fbi-agents</ref> In 2007, the documents helped the survivors and the families of the two other men, who had died in prison, win a $101.7 million civil judgment against the government.<ref name=Murphy>{{cite news

 

===Jeffrey Epstein and George Nader===

===Jeffrey Epstein and George Nader===