H. Paul Rico

Male, Deceased Person

1925 – 2004

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Who was H. Paul Rico?

Harold Paul Rico was an FBI agent. Indicted for murder in 2003, he played a significant role in the 1968 framing of four men for murder, unjustly imprisoning them for decades.

Rico was born in 1925 in Boston. He graduated from Boston College with a bachelors degree in history. Rico joined the FBI in 1951 at the age of 26 and worked in the Boston area. He used members of the Winter Hill Gang as informants. In 1956 he recognized a disguised James "Whitey" Bulger in a Revere bar and arrested him.

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Born
Apr 29, 1925
United States of America
Education
  • Boston College
Died
Jan 14, 2004

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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