Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses

Charges of aiding Mob hits dropped after witness changes tune
By Zach Samalin,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 1, 2007 5:23 PM CDT
Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses
Former FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio exits Brooklyn State Supreme Court with his wife Carolyn, Thursday, Nov.1, 2007, in New York. A judge dropped murder charges against an ex-FBI agent accused of feeding confidential information to a homicidal mob informant in what was billed as one of the worst law...   (Associated Press)

Retired FBI supervisor Roy Lindley DeVecchio left a Brooklyn court today exonerated of helping with Mafia murders after prosecutors dropped all charges in light of new evidence discrediting their main witness. Linda Schiro, a mobster's mistress, could face perjury charges, the New York Times reports, after her testimony in court contradicted statements she made to a Village Voice writer.

“Had we been provided with these tapes much earlier in the process, I dare say we would not have been here,” one prosecutor said. The case's implosion is seen as a blow to Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes, who brought charges relating to four murders in the 1980s and '90s against DeVecchio even though he had been cleared by federal investigators. (More Roy Lindley DeVecchio stories.)

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