But who is guarding the Praetorian Guards?
AP:
BOSTON - The FBI helped frame four men for a 1965 murder and withheld information for decades that could have cleared them, a federal judge ruled Thursday in ordering the government to pay the men $101.7 million.
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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 four 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.
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Salvati and Limone were exonerated after FBI memos dating back to the Deegan case surfaced, indicating that the four men had been framed by Barboza. The memos were made public during a Justice Department task force probe of the Boston FBI’s relationship with gangsters and FBI informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi.
In other words, the FBI was so anxious to break the Boston mafia that they fabricated murder charges against four gangsters.
