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Colombo crime fam hit man ‘Frankie Blue Eyes’ Sparaco lied and killed while FBI informant

By John Marzulli DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER • Sep 20, 2011 at 7:47 am The murderous gangster nicknamed “Grim Reaper”…

Lin DeVecchio and “The Grim Reaper”

A former FBI agent says he considered his star Mafia informant, a hit man nicknamed “The Grim Reaper,” a friend…

At Trial of Ex-F.B.I. Supervisor, How to Love a Mobster

By Michael Brick    New York Times, Oct. 30, 2007   Nobody had a ready explanation for the origin of…

WHO IS R. LINDLEY DeVECCHIO?

One of his attorneys once told The New Yorker magazine that Scarpa being an FBI informant was as inconceivable as…

FBI PROBER IS ATTACKED Sleuth behind mob case hit in Brooklyn

By CONTRIBUTED CONTENT, ALISON GENDAR, L. KATZ, LEO STANDORA, NANCIE L. KATZ and STAFF REPORT | Originally Published: June 17,…

Retired F.B.I. Agent Is Accused of Role in Killings

By William K. Rashbaum March 31, 2006 When R. Lindley DeVecchio, a 65-year-old retired F.B.I. supervisor, stood up in a…

G-MAN BLOOD MONEY- MOB CASH FOR KILLINGS

‘MOB’ FED’S BLOOD MONEY – FBI MAN CASHED IN AS MAFIA SLAY MOLE: DA By: Murray Weiss, Criminal Justice Editor…

‘MAFIA BOSS FRAMED IN SLAY’

By Kati Cornell Smith Published Jan. 8, 2004, 5:00 a.m. ET A jailed mobster yesterday claimed his late capo father…

My Father, The Killer

Gangster: Dad did it, Framed 2 By: John Marzulli, Daily News January 8, 2004 Honor thy father. But not for…

Blast From The Past

Alleged Bonanno boss charged in decades of old slaying of crime captain By Anthony M. DeStefano, Newsday January 10, 2003…