Posted on 03/31/2006 5:33:17 AM PST by aculeus
When R. Lindley DeVecchio, a 65-year-old retired F.B.I. supervisor, stood up in a courtroom in Brooklyn yesterday to face charges that he had helped his prized Mafia informant commit four murders, the tension was clear.
On one side of the gallery, filling roughly two-thirds of the blond wood benches, were nearly four dozen mostly gray-haired men in dark-colored suits. Retired F.B.I. agents who had been Mr. DeVecchio's colleagues, they were now his supporters. [snip]
In 1987, prosecutors said, Mr. DeVecchio provided information that led to the killing of a Colombo soldier, Joseph DeDomenico. The agent told Mr. Scarpa that Mr. DeDomenico was using drugs, committing crimes without sharing the proceeds with Mr. Scarpa and flirting with born-again Christianity, all of them lapses that Mr. DeVecchio said made him a threat, the prosecutor said.
Two years later, a group of teenagers — including Mr. Scarpa's son Joseph — were joyriding on Halloween when one of them shot and killed 17-year-old Dominick Masseria ...
Mr. Masseria had no ties to organized crime, and prosecutors concede that Mr. DeVecchio had no role in his death. But when Patrick Porco, 18, one of the youngsters in the car, was interviewed by the police about the killing in 1990, Mr. DeVecchio warned Mr. Scarpa that Mr. Porco posed a threat to Joseph, the prosecutor said. So Mr. Porco, too, was killed. Mr. Sinagra was charged yesterday with that crime.
The last killing, on May 22, 1992, was part of the bloody Colombo war of that era. Mr. Vecchione said Mr. DeVecchio, using information he gleaned from his agents' surveillance of a Scarpa rival, Lorenzo Lampasi, told Mr. Scarpa that Mr. Lampasi would get out of his car before dawn each morning to lock a gate when he left his home, leaving him vulnerable to attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sort of like the Million Mommies who showed up in support of one of their own, who was convicted of shooting an innocent person she thought had murdered her son. (The guy lived, but is paralyzed.) She did it using one of several illegal guns in her possession, as an added bonus. Just exactly which of her many behaviors do the Commie Mommies support? And just which of bribery, murder, etc., do the other FBI agents, or the FBI generally, support? I guess we got our answer in Waco.
...and, in slightly more subtle form, in OKC...
Don't wonder. Just read the article.
(In case you're busy: the agents presence -- and their posting bond -- is hightlighted.)
Judge Rules in OKC Bombing FOIA Fight>
The FBI's ball of lies re OKC is continuing to unravel. Now we have tacit FBI admission that they had a paid informant working with McVeigh before the bombing...
Thanks, I somehow missed that.
Do FBI agents support the law, above fellow agents, or support fellow agents, above the law?
Unfortunately most organizations have too many people who are dedicated to protecting themselves and their buddies ... not to doing their job. Corporations, unions, universities, Congress, the military, etc.
Go to Abledangerblog.com to see how this ties into 9/11.
One name should ring a bell: Dietrich Snell.
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