Ex-FBI agent John Connelly found guilty of murder Jurors have found ex-FBI agent John Connolly guilty of second-degree murder for his role in helping Boston mobsters assassinate an accountant in South Florida in 1982. He was found not guilty of a second charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. In the 1970s and '80s, Connolly was a star agent in the FBI's Boston office, developing criminal informants and helping dismantle the New England Mafia. But in a closely followed saga in Boston and one the FBI's most embarrassing scandals, Connolly's two star informants corrupted him, prosecutors said. The allegation: James ''Whitey'' Bulger and Stephen ''The Rifleman'' Flemmi ordered the murder of John Callahan based on a tip from Connolly. The agent is accused of telling the gang Callahan would likely cooperate with agents probing the gang's 1981 murder of Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler, who owned World Jai-Alai and had resisted Callahan's overtures to buy the gambling company....