(Replay) The Boston FBI Part 3- H.Paul Rico finally gets arrested and hitman Joe Barboza meets the end he was destined for

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Send us a text The innocent men the FBI had knowingly imprisoned began getting out of jail in 1997, as this heinous story unraveled. Greco and Tamelo died in prison. H.Paul Rico retired from the FBI and became head of security for World Jai Lai, a gaming business, where he had the distinction of being the first FBI agent to provide information to organized crime that facilitated a homicide. The Winter Hill Gang had placed Rico as head of security to protect a skimming operation that net...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.6	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.3	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:39.8	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.8	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.7	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:53.1	Hey guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:56.0	Just a few housekeeping tips, as you usually do at the top of the show.
1:00.0	If you need to get a hold of me, I know I keep forgetting to give out my email.
1:04.3	It is Barry at Boston Confidential.net.
1:08.2	We've gotten a tremendous response on these last two episodes we did on the FBI corruption in Boston, starting in the 1960s with the murderer of Eddie Deegan in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
1:22.8	The FBI sent four innocent men to prison for homicide, putting two of them on death row.
1:30.0	And they were hoping that they were executed, knowing they were innocent.
1:34.9	Welcome to Boston.
1:37.3	All right, guys, I'm going to try to tell you a little bit about the players in this Deegan murder
1:42.8	and how they all played out. I'm going to start with what happened
1:47.4	to H. Paul Rico, perhaps the most corrupt FBI agent in the history of the United States. Rico
1:56.7	orchestrated this Degan setup after Eddie Degan, a local gangster, was killed.
2:03.9	He was actually killed by Joe Barbosa and Barbosa's best friend, Jimmy the Bear Flemmy.
2:11.6	Jimmy the Bear Flemmy was the, I believe, older brother to Stephen the Rifleman Flemmy,
2:18.7	who would pick up the family torch with the Winter Hill gang. Apparently, one of the other guys, Ronnie the Pig, Casario,
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