Former FBI agent gets 40 years for mob-related killing

Former FBI agent John Connolly was sentenced yesterday to 40 years in prison for the 1982 mob-related killing of a Miami gambling executive.

Miami-Dade circuit judge Stanford Blake imposed the sentence after rejecting defence claims that a four-year statute of limitations had expired on Connolly’s second-degree murder conviction in the killing of 45-year-old John Callahan. Blake said a motion on that issue was filed past a 10-day deadline but was probably legally correct — meaning an appeal is certain.

Trial testimony showed Connolly provided information to Boston mobsters leading to Callahan’s killing. Connolly, 68, showed no emotion when the sentence was announced.