The Mafia bribed an FBI agent with cash, stolen jewelry, hotel rooms, liquor and prostitutes for tips about wiretaps and other help, prosecutors said in a letter unsealed Monday.
In the letter to a Brooklyn state Supreme Court judge, prosecutors leveled fresh accusations that ex-agent L. Lindley DeVecchio provided security for a crew of bandits during a bank burglary and alerted mobsters that their social club was under surveillance.
DeVecchio, 66, was charged last year with taking the bribes from Colombo crime family captain Gregory Scarpa Sr. in exchange for classified information during a bloody civil war within the family during the 1980s and '90s. The tips helped Scarpa knock off rivals and others, including a man found shot five times in the head in 1990, prosecutors said.
In the letter, prosecutors allege DeVecchio accepted jewelry that "the defendant knew that members of Scarpa Sr.'s crew had taken during a burglary of bank safety deposit boxes."
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Prosecutors: N.Y. Mob Bribed FBI Agent
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