Posted on 03/30/2006 12:56:05 PM PST by ncountylee
NEW YORK (AP) - A retired FBI agent was indicted on murder charges Thursday for allegedly taking bribes from a mobster to provide inside information that led to the underworld slayings of four people in Brooklyn.
R. Lindley DeVecchio, 65, was arrested in a case of ``confidential leaks, payoffs and death'' dating back two decades, District Attorney Charles Hynes said.
DeVecchio and two alleged triggermen awaited arraignment as other retired FBI agents came to his defense.
``We all know Lin, and we all know he's not capable of doing these kinds of things,'' James Kossler, a former supervisor with the FBI's New York office, said Wednesday. ``It's so sad it could happen to a guy like this.''
Hynes said the charges stemmed from the unusually close relationship between DeVecchio - then head of the FBI's Colombo crime family squad - and Gregory Scarpa Sr., a government informant and Colombo captain nicknamed ``The Grim Reaper.''
The pair met each week during the 1980s and '90s and discussed a bloody civil war within the Colombo family. In exchange for bribes, DeVecchio ``counseled Scarpa to protect himself by eliminating imminent threats,'' Hynes said.
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Oh, sure. I know just what you mean, G-Man. *Rolls eyes*
Yes sir, just one of many reasons to place your trust in the F.B.I.
Wasn't Scarrpeta the guy who informed the gov about the Islamic terrorists' plans only to have them ignored?
Don't know, I'm just still p.o. from the randy weaver episode as well as the jet shot out of the sky over long island that they said was electrical wiring after half of n.y. saw it hit by a missle. Oh yeah and then waco and then the little matter of the guy in New England who they let go to jail for murder for decades so their mob pal wouldn't get fingered.
I can go on here in this rant, suffice it to ay I'm not a big fan of the almighty f.b.i.
It has its limits and its uses.
They have done enormous good in many circumstances, just don't think they are GODs gift.
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