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In 1982, a South Boston cocaine dealer named Edward Brian Halloran, known on the streets as " Balloonhead ," approached the FBI and stated that he had witnessed Bulger and Flemmi murdering Louis Litif.

Meanwhile, FBI agent John Connolly kept Bulger and Flemmi closely briefed on what Halloran was saying to the Bureau.

According to Kevin Weeks, Bulger and Flemmi were most enraged that Halloran was falsely claiming involvement in their assassination of Tulsa, Oklahoma businessman Roger Wheeler.

Ultimately, the FBI discovered Halloran's falsehoods and refused him and his family a place in the Witness Protection Program.

Soon after, on May 11, 1982, Bulger, Flemmi and Weeks were tipped off that Halloran had returned to South Boston.