BOSTON -- A federal connoisseur aw...

BOSTON -- A federal connoisseur awarded $3.1 million Tuesday to the family of a man who was killed by way of fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger ruling that the federal dominion is liable for the man's death because his identity was leaked to Bulger according to a rogue FBI agent.

The family of John McIntyre, 32 a fisherman from Quincy, had su the federal control for $50 million.

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They alleged McIntyre was killed by dint of Bulger in 1984 after FBI Agent John Connolly Jr tipped him that McIntyre had talked to U Customs agents. The Customs Service was investigating the involvement of Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi in a failed plan to propel guns to the Irish Republican Army aboard a fishing boat.

Connolly was convicted of warning Bulger to cut and run on the eve of his 1995 racketeering indictment, and is serving a 10-year sentence

In June Flemmi testified that McIntyre was killed after Connolly told them undivided of the two people aboard the fishing boat was cooperating with authorities. He said McIntyre was lur to a party in succession Nov. 30, 1984, then chained to a chair, interrogated, strangled and discharge in the head by Bulger

In his ruling Tuesday, U District referee Reginald Lindsay found that Connolly was the "proximate cause" of McIntyre's death and that the federal control should be held responsible.

Bulger is wanted in 19 assassinations and is on the FBI's "10 greatest in quantity Wanted" list.

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