Lindley DeVecchio is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

 (FBI) agent in charge of managing mob informants. DeVecchio worked for the FBI during the Mafia

Mafia

The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

 wars in New York during the 1980s and 1990s.

He was accused of collaborating with the Mafia and orchestrating or giving information that led to several hits and not stopping others. He allegedly accepted bribes from the Colombo crime family

Colombo crime family

The Colombo crime family is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....

and was put on trial. The murder charges against DeVecchio were dropped on November 1, 2007.

External links

• License to Kill: Greg Scarpa and the FBI by James Ridgway
• The G-Man and the Hit Man by Fredric Dannen
• Dive to the Mat: Why Did the Trial of the Mafia's Mole in the New York FBI Fall Apart? by Sander Hicks
• New York Times coverage of DeVecchio and Rudy Giuliani