Posted on 11/01/2007 12:25:18 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Roy Lindley DeVecchio, the retired Federal Bureau of Investigation supervisor charged with murder, walked out of court a free man this morning after prosecutors dropped all charges against him in the wake of new evidence that the government’s main witness changed her account and may face perjury charges.
The lead prosecutor, Michael F. Vecchione, announced the decision to dismiss all charges this morning in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, where Mr. DeVecchio, 67, was charged with helping a Mafia informer commit four murders in the 1980s and early 1990s. The trial, which began last month, was upended this week after a reporter revealed that he had taped interviews showing that the prosecution’s main witness, Linda Schiro, a gangster’s mistress, had given varying accounts and had damaged her credibility.
“Had we been provided with these tapes much earlier in the process, I dare say we would not have been here,” Mr. Vecchione said as he stood before Justice Gustin L. Reichbach this morning. “The interest of justice at this point requires me to stand before you and ask you on behalf of the district attorney to dismiss or accept the dismissal of this indictment.”
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And with that, Mr. DeVecchio, wearing a slight smile on his face, turned around and strolled out of the courtroom as his supporters and fellow F.B.I. agents gave him a round of applause. ...
The decision to drop the charges was a monumental reversal for the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes. Last year, when Mr. Hynes filed state murder charges despite a federal investigation that had cleared Mr. DeVecchio, he described the case as “the most stunning example of official corruption that I have ever seen.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Mr. Hynes should have learned before now that DA's are only allowed to indict outsiders.
A pile of guilty JBT's walked away from Waco scot free (hope they're having trouble sleeping).
IMO, DeVecchio guy is a dirty cop and they’ve known it since the 1970s.
Rudy Giuliani got him off at least once.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/nyregion/15agent.html?pagewanted=print
Mr. DeVecchio has been hailed as a hero and tarnished as a scourge, and yet there was a moment in a Pennsylvania parking lot 30 years ago that almost caused him to be neither.
In 1976, as a young F.B.I. agent, Mr. DeVecchio sold old handguns to undercover officers, who later sought to charge him with a felony. Had he been convicted, the case might have led to prison or his dismissal as an agent. But Mr. DeVecchio, who said he acted legally and to benefit a widow, was neither jailed nor fired.
The case against him was ultimately discarded without an indictment by officials at the highest levels of the Justice Department, a decision that the federal prosecutor in the original case says was largely made by the top aide to the deputy United States attorney general, a 32-year-old attorney named Rudolph W. Giuliani.
“Rudy expressed no other reason not to prosecute the guy except the guy was a cop,” said the former prosecutor, Daniel M. Clements, who is now in private practice. “And he didn’t want to embarrass the bureau.”
So a guy who sold guns is dirty?
What part of the 2nd Amendment didn’t you understand?
Yeah, I’m sure Rudy got him off because of his commmitment to the 2nd Amendment. ROFL!
There are connections of this case to the failures to deal with radical Islam's war against us.
Yes, it's a Huff'n Puff Post but.. like I said, Mr. Lance seems to know what he's talking about. He's written several books on all the stuff surrounding this and radical Islam's jihad against us.
There are a slew of articles about DeVecchio over the years, and plenty of shady dealings.
The article you linked is fascinating.
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