Probing mob links to G-man:Ex-Columbo big shot & FBI agent may have shared

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Probing mob links to G-man

Ex-Columbo big shot & FBI agent may have shared critical information probing mob links to G-man

Daily News Exclusive


Ex-FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio is suspected of giving former Colombo capo Greg Scarpa Sr. secret intelligence for several years, including information that helped whack Scarpa rival Nicholas Grancio in 1992.




By NANCIE L. KATZ, GREG B. SMITH
and WILLIAM SHERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Ex-FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio is suspected of giving former Colombo capo Greg Scarpa Sr. secret intelligence for several years, including information that helped whack Scarpa rival Nicholas Grancio in 1992.
A Brooklyn grand jury is investigating explosive allegations that an FBI agent helped a Mafia capo murder rivals and run a massive criminal enterprise while the mobster was a government informant, the Daily News has learned.

Now-retired FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio is suspected of giving mobster Greg Scarpa Sr. volumes of secret intelligence - including addresses of rivals' hideouts and names of other informants - from 1988 to 1993, sources said.

In one early 1992 incident, DeVecchio allegedly called off law enforcement surveillance of mobster Nicholas Grancio at Scarpa's request - so Scarpa could assassinate his rival, the sources said.

Less than 15 minutes after the surveillance was pulled, Scarpa, with two associates, shot and killed Grancio, who was sitting in his car, talking to his nephew.

DeVecchio also allegedly once tipped Scarpa off that the mobster's son, Greg Jr., was about to be busted on drug-dealing charges. The younger Scarpa fled.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/380185p-322833c.html

[paulthompson]

1. If you read the book "Cover Up"...

...by Peter Lance, you'll see he was all over this like white on rice in his book. Further, he alleges that Ramzi Yousef directed the shoot down of TWA Flight 800 by calling his uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed from within prison. The FBI knew this but covered it up because they found out about it from Scarpa Jr., who had a prison cell next to Yousef. But the FBI had already said Scarpa Jr. wasn't a reliable witness when he tried to reveal what he know about his father's activities that this Daily News article talks about. So, if the FBI admitted that Scarpa Jr. was right about who shot down Flight 800, then all those mob convictions would go up in smoke and many FBI careers would be destroyed in scandal.

Interestingly, a few months ago it turns out that Scarpa Jr. was also getting secrets from Terry Nichols of the Oklahoma City bombing. Nichols told him in great detail that there were explosives secretly hidden in his house. The FBI didn't want to go check for fear of proving Scarpa Jr. to be a reliable witness, but finally some federal agents went and found the explosives to be exactly where Scarpa Jr. said they would be. So Lance is getting some vindication lately.

In conclusion, this latest story has big implications over Flight 800 theories. And if it turns out that al-Qaeda destroyed that plane and the FBI covered up knowledge of that and didn't do anything to improve air safety as a response, didn't go after Khalid Shaikh Mohammed for Flight 800, well, you can see some implications with 9/11.

Anyway, read Cover Up if you get the chance. Interesting book.

[flyarm]

2. just finished reading...and it boils my skin!!

a dear friend of mine..her neighbor is the twa pilot who took pieces of parts of the plane twa 800...to prove it was bombed..and he was held on charges for stealing evidence!!
he was treated like a leaper...and a nut case..

this so infuriates me...

and yet all evidence from 9/11 was hardly even looked at...
just infuriates me.,,
i hate these pricks...i really do..a hate i never thought i was capable of...

fly

[paulthompson]

3. I know what you mean

The difference between the 9/11 let it happen on purpose and incompetence theories hardly matter, because in either case a lot of people should be going to jail for a very long time.

[flyarm]

4. well the commissioners were a joke!

the white wash was so obvious and so disgusting..jamie gorlich...that woman should be tarred and feathered..and phillip Zelikow ..i am convinced americans are the dumbest saps in the world!!

really ..i am convinced americans just love getting fucked!

and they cherish the fucking liars!

can anyone say murder...but murder by our own government!!

i swear if i was single i would be living in france..

fly

[paulthompson]

5. Yeah

You know, 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorlick is deeply implicated in this. She was in on a lot of key meetings relating to this kind of thing. I'm surprised the right wingers aren't all over this stuff, cos she's one of their punching bags.