| 词条 | Lindley DeVecchio |
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|name = Lindley DeVecchio |image = |image_size = 250px |caption = |other_names = "Lin" (nickname) |birth_name = Roy Lindley DeVecchio |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|4|18}}[1] |birth_place = Fresno, California, U.S.[1] |death_date = |death_place = |known_for = |yearsactive = 1962–1996 }}Lindley DeVecchio (born Roy Lindley DeVecchio; April 18, 1940, Fresno, California) is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent in charge of managing mob informants.[2][3] DeVecchio worked for the FBI during the Mafia wars in New York during the 1980s and 1990s, eventually rising to head of the FBI squad responsible for surveillance of the Colombo crime family. He was also responsible for handling Gregory Scarpa, a Colombo capo who had secretly been an FBI informant since the 1960s.[4] Connection to Gregory Scarpa racketeering trialAfter Scarpa pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 1993, former Colombo consigliere Carmine Sessa, who had recently turned informer, tipped off prosecutors about Scarpa's unusual relationship with DeVecchio.[5] Eventually, prosecutors uncovered circumstantial evidence that DeVecchio had leaked confidential information to Scarpa on numerous occasions. Reportedly, DeVecchio had told Scarpa about several former Colombo members who had turned informer. He was suspected of alerting Scarpa that he was being bugged, and that his son was about to be arrested for drug trafficking.[3] Evidence surfaced that DeVecchio had given Scarpa tips on how to track down soldiers backing Victor Orena's effort to take over the Colombo family during the Third Colombo War (1991–93); Scarpa sided with longtime boss Carmine Persico. DeVecchio is believed to be the first FBI agent accused of helping a mobster commit crimes and cover them up.[4] The FBI conducted a two-year internal probe, but ultimately decided not to press charges against DeVecchio. Nonetheless, his reputation was ruined, and he retired in 1996.[3] Although DeVecchio was cleared of wrongdoing by his superiors, 19 soldiers from the Orena faction had their convictions reversed or charges thrown out after their lawyers contended DeVecchio's actions cast doubt on the evidence against them. The lawyers contended that DeVecchio actively helped Scarpa hunt down and kill opponents, thus making many of the deaths caused by their clients acts of self-defense. They contended DeVecchio had manufactured evidence.[4] In 2006, Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes indicted DeVecchio on charges that he'd helped Scarpa kill four people in the 1980s and early 1990s by supplying confidential FBI information about them.[6] The case was based almost entirely on the testimony of Scarpa's longtime girlfriend, Linda Schiro.[7] However, the case imploded in the fall of 2007 when Tom Robbins of The Village Voice came forward with an interview he and mob expert Jerry Capeci had conducted with Schiro in 1997 in which Schiro denied that DeVecchio had been involved in most of the murders.[8] This forced prosecutors to move for a dismissal of charges against DeVecchio, which was granted on November 1, 2007.[9] DeVecchio co-authored a book about his experiences.[10] References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3A%22Roy%20Lindley%22~%20%2Bsurname%3ADeVecchio~|title=Birth reference for Roy Lindley DeVecchio|work=FamilySearch.org|accessdate=July 30, 2017}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1786440&page=1|title=Former Fave FBI Stool Pigeon Indicted|author=Rich Esposito|work=ABC News|date=March 30, 2006}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/nyregion/15agent.html?ex=1183089600&en=ba3d8468804527a0&ei=5070|title=For Ex-F.B.I. Agent Accused in Murders, a Case of What Might Have Been|author=Alan Feuer|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 15, 2006}} 4. ^1 2 Raab, Selwyn. The Five Families: The Rise, Decline & Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empire. New York: St. Martins Press, 2005. 5. ^{{cite news|last=FRANCESCANI|first=CHRISTOPHER|title=MURDEROUS MOB CANARY SPRUNG|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/murderous_mob_canary_sprung_6jUvw4SDKcImtpGIiKDZiO|accessdate=October 3, 2011|newspaper=New York Post|date=September 29, 2000}} 6. ^ JOHN HOLUSHA and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/nyregion/31mobcnd.html "Ex-F.B.I. Agent Accused of Role in Four Organized Crime Killings"], The New York Times, March 30, 2006. 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/11/02/the-schiro-tapes-the-patrick-porco-murder|title=The Schiro Tapes: The Patrick Porco Murder|website=Villagevoice.com|accessdate=January 13, 2018}} 8. ^Robbins, Tom. [https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/11/01/former-g-man-walks-after-robbins-unearthed-tapes/ "G Man walks after Robbins unearthed tapes"], The Village Voice, 2007-10-23. 9. ^MICHAEL BRICK and ANAHAD O'CONNOR, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/nyregion/01cnd-devecchio.html "Charges Dropped in F.B.I. Murder Case"], The New York Times, November 1, 2007. 10. ^{{cite book|first1=Lin|last1=DeVecchio|first2=Charles|last2=Brandt|title=We're going to win this thing: The shocking frame-up of a Mafia crime buster|publisher=Berkley Books|location=New York|date=2011|isbn=978-0-425-22986-6}} Sources
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