Why should we have to pay anything?
Why not take it out of the agent's hide?
After all, HE was the KILLER:
"the FBI knew that the key witness in the case... falsely implicated the four men while protecting... Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi, who was an FBI informant."
"State pays $500k to estate in wrongful conviction case" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | July 17, 2008
The estate of one of four men who a federal judge said were framed by the FBI for a notorious 1965 gangland murder has received $500,000 from the state for the wrongful conviction.
But the lawyer for the late Louis Greco's estate said it will return the settlement if it wins an appeal by the federal government challenging a US district court judge's award of $101.7 million to the two surviving former prisoners and the estates of two who died in prison before being exonerated.
District Court Judge Nancy Gertner said the FBI deliberately withheld evidence that Greco, Peter J. Limone, Joseph Salvati, and Henry Tameleo were innocent of the Chelsea killing of Edward "Teddy" Deegan on March 12, 1965. She said the bureau helped cover up the injustice for decades as the men grew old behind bars and Greco and Tameleo died.
Obviously you can NEVER BELIEVE the FBI ever again!!!
The discovery of secret FBI files that were never turned over during the men's criminal trial prompted a state judge seven years ago to overturn the murder convictions of Limone, who was immediately freed from prison, and Salvati, who was paroled in 1997.
The documents showed the FBI knew that the key witness in the case, notorious hit man Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, may have falsely implicated the four men while protecting one of Deegan's true killers, Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi, who was an FBI informant.
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Notice that FBI "informants" are in the middle of all the "terror" plots, readers?!
Doesn't make you feel a whole lot safer, does it?
"the FBI's transition from a traditional crime-fighting agency to one whose top mission is to protect America from terrorist attacks."
The same guys who blocked investigations of "Al-CIA-Duh" before 9/11, huh?
