BOSTON (AP) – A former FBI agent accused of lying during Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s trial is expected to plead guilty to perjury charges.
Robert Fitzpatrick is slated to appear Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Boston for a change-of-plea hearing.
The now-76-year-old is accused of lying to jurors and overstating his professional accomplishments during Bulger’s 2013 racketeering trial.
Fitzpatrick, who had been second-in-command of the FBI’s Boston division during Bulger’s bloody reign in Boston, was the first witness Bulger’s lawyers called during the high-profile trial.
Prosecutors say Fitzpatrick falsely claimed to be the first officer who recovered the rifle used to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.