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Fbi agent indicted in mob killings { March 30 2006 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/03/30/national/a084616S04.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/03/30/national/a084616S04.DTL Ex-FBI Agent Indicted in Mob Killings - By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer Thursday, March 30, 2006 (03-30) 13:36 PST New York (AP) -- A retired FBI agent was indicted on murder charges Thursday for allegedly taking bribes from a mobster to supply him with inside information that led to four underworld slayings 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 pleaded not guilty and was released on $1 million bail. He did not speak at his arraignment. One of the two alleged mob hitmen behind the slayings was jailed without bail. The other was in Florida, awaiting extradition. Colleagues of the FBI veteran were quick to defend him against the charges. "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. In 1984, DeVecchio allegedly warned Scarpa that the girlfriend of a high-ranking Colombo figure was cooperating with federal authorities. As a result, authorities say, she was shot and killed in a Brooklyn social club — a pattern prosecutors said was repeated in three slayings of Scarpa rivals, the last one in 1992. Scarpa gave DeVecchio weekly payments and also enhanced the agent's reputation within the FBI by helping him solve important cases, Hynes said. DeVecchio surrendered Wednesday night at the Brooklyn district attorney's office. He had no comment as he entered. Kossler, former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom, ex-agent Joe Pistone, known for infiltrating the mob as Donnie Brasco, and other supporters in law enforcement have begun raising money for DeVecchio's defense on a Web site. The site notes that the agent was cleared in previous investigations, and it attributes the renewed allegations to convicted mobsters eager to lie in exchange for leniency. DeVecchio retired in 1996. Scarpa died in prison in 1994. ___ On the Net: The Friends of Lin DeVecchio Trust: Brooklyn District Attorney: www.lindevecchio.com www.brooklynda.org

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