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Wtc93 bombing fbi mobster spy Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/35090350.html http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/35090350.html MOBSTER SEZ HE SPIED FOR FBI New York Daily News; New York; Oct 14, 1998; HELEN PETERSON; Copyright Daily News, L.P. Oct 14, 1998 A mobster said yesterday that he worked as a spy for the FBI against World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef in an effort to combat international terrorism. Gregory Scarpa Jr., a member of the Colombo crime family whose father worked as a top-echelon FBI informer for 30 years, said he secretly befriended Yousef while the two were housed together in the maximum-security section of a Manhattan jail awaiting trial. Scarpa, who is on trial on murder and racketeering charges in Brooklyn Federal Court, gave testimony straight out of an espionage thriller, saying he used a tiny spy camera to photograph terrorist information slipped to him through the cracks of his cell wall. He also said that he warned the FBI Yousef was plotting to kill a federal judge and a prosecutor, and that he had tricked Yousef into making overseas phone calls to which the FBI secretly listened. He said that he acted like a tough guy, at the FBI's suggestion, to win Yousef's confidence, telling him that the Mafia had a militia wing. Yousef was convicted in November 1997 in Manhattan Federal Court of plotting to bomb airliners and in the World Trade Center bombing. Neither Manhattan prosecutors nor the FBI would comment, but Yousef's lawyer called Scarpa's testimony fiction. "It is all completely fabricated," said attorney Bernard Kleinman. The lawyer said he had not seen any evidence that Scarpa spied on Yousef, but said they were housed together at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Scarpa allegedly spied on Yousef and three other terrorists from early 1996 through mid-1997, a defense source said. Scarpa also told of corrupt dealings between his father and an FBI agent, and admitted he had been inducted in the Mafia. But he denied taking part in murders. His lawyer, Larry Silverman, said in his opening that Scarpa is being blamed for his father's sins by prosecutors and his father's crew members, who couldn't buy their way out of jail by informing on his dead father. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.

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