NEW : Ex-FBI agent ` The New York Times has reported that the Justice Department is investigating whether a former top official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly disclosed classified information to reporters in order to protect Hillary Clinton. Connolly 's tale was closely followed in New England , where he grew up in Boston 's `` Southie '' neighborhood , the same area long dominated by the Winter Hill gang and its notorious leader , James Sentence will run consecutively to previous 10-year racketeering sentence . John Connolly Jr. has denied role in 1982 mob hit . He was convicted of second-degree murder in slaying of gambling exec .
NEW : Ex-FBI agent ` The New York Times has reported that the Justice Department is investigating whether a former top official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly disclosed classified information to reporters in order to protect Hillary Clinton. Sentence will run consecutively to previous 10-year racketeering sentence . John Connolly Jr. has denied role in 1982 mob hit . He was convicted of second-degree murder in slaying of gambling exec .