DjTj Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 BOSTON -- The FBI helped frame four men for a 1965 murder and withheld information that could have cleared them, a federal judge ruled Thursday in ordering the government to pay $101.7 million for the decades they spent in prison. "The FBI's misconduct was clearly the sole cause of this conviction," U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner said in issuing her ruling in the civil lawsuit. She called the government's argument that the FBI had no duty to get involved in the state case "absurd." Peter Limone and Joseph Salvati, who were exonerated in 2001, and the families of the two other men who died in prison had sued the federal government for malicious prosecution. They argued that Boston FBI agents knew mob hitman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza lied when he named the men as killers in the 1965 death of Edward Deegan. They said Barboza was protecting a fellow FBI informant, Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi, who was involved in the hit. The four wrongly convicted men were treated as "acceptable collateral damage" because the FBI's priority at the time was taking down the Mafia, their attorneys said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072600686.html It's like straight out of a mob movie ... scary what the government can do sometimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Ironic that this gets released the day Vick is arraigned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Ironic or planned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 J Edgar Hoover was an evil sonofa****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinInsite Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 J Edgar Hoover was an evil sonofa****. Sharp dresser though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Two weeks ago, we find out the CIA has been breaking the law at will to do whatever they want. Now we find out the FBI does similar things. But it's all for my protection, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Everybody in prison must be guilty though right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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