FILE- In this Oct. 15, 2008 file photo, former FBI agent John Connolly listens to the testimony during his trial in Miami.
The imprisoned former FBI agent serving a 40-year prison sentence for alerting former Boston mobster Whitey Bulger that he could implicated in a mob murder wants to be released from prison on medical grounds.
Connolly will ask the Florida Commission on Offender Review Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 to release him.
āItās on the docket for the 17th and heās seeking a conditional medical release,ā said commission spokesperson Angela Meredith.
Connollyās Cambridge lawyer, Peter Mullane, confirmed to the Boston Herald Friday that Connolly, who is 80, is seeking to be released.