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Deal with the Devil: The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer

Name: Deal with the Devil: The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer
Author: Peter Lance
ISBN: 9780061455346

by Peter Lance

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Synopsis

In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a Mafia capo who “stopped counting” after fifty murders, while secretly betraying the Colombo crime family as a Top Echelon FBI informant.

Lance traces Scarpa’s shadowy relationship with the FBI all the way back to 1960, when his debriefings went straight to J. Edgar Hoover. In forty-two years of murder and racketeering, Scarpa served only thirty days in jail thanks to his secret relationship with the Feds.

This is the untold story that will rewrite Mafia history as we know it —a page-turning work of journalism that reads like a Scorsese film. Deal with the Devil includes more than 130 illustrations, crime scene photos, and never-before-seen FBI documents.

About the Author, Peter Lance

A five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter and former correspondent for ABC News, Peter Lance has covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. He is the author of 1000 Years for Revenge, Cover Up, and the novel First Degree Burn, and he lives in California.

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"FORMER FAVE FBI STOOL PIGEON INDICTED. March 30, 2006. A former FBI agent whose reputation was considered unimpeachable by colleagues was indicted Thursday on four murder charges for allegedly providing inside information, who then ordered the kidnappings." The TV news story only reveals the tip of this scandal iceberg. For three decades, FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio had been gaining secret fame within the agency for his seemingly impeccable work as an undercover informant. His adroit use of his high-level contacts had led to more than 70 successful Mafia prosecutions and helped propel a young U.S. attorney named Rudolph Giuliani into the spotlight. After "Mr. Organized Crime" was exposed as an apparent accomplice to homicide, he was indicted. And then the cover-up began….