Mafia Cop Conspiracy Podcast - Episode 6: Who Is FBI Special Agent R. Lindsey DeVecchio?

FBI Agent R. Lindsey DeVecchio's name has come up numerous times during our discussion of the alleged conspiracy between the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice and various leaders of Organized Crime. This episode delves more deeply into Agent DeVecchio's alleged role as both a handler of high-level mobsters turned informants as well as his own possible turncoat activity which may have included not only turning over information that allowed the mob to murder numerous people but who also may have helped cover up the deeds. 

DeVecchio's activities spanned the 1980s, 1990s up through 2006 and the so-called Mafia Cops trial of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. His alleged actions as a mob informant so panicked his bosses in the Justice Department that they needed desperately to produce a coverup or all of the good that DeVecchio did as head of the Colombo Crime Family squad in getting 19 gangsters off the streets would be wasted. In addition, they were afraid that the ultimate indictment, that of John Gotti, Jr would be annulled. They needed a pair of patsies to take the blame for DeVecchio's alleged crimes. Thus, they used a carrot and stick on one of their high-level mobster informants, Anthony Gaspipe Casso, to finger the two NYPD cops first in 1996 and again in 2006. 

While DeVecchio retired with full pension and wrote a book about the various investigations against him, not only were Eppolito and Caracappa indicted and sentenced to life terms in jail, but repercussions of the coverup lead to the ending of a fruitful spying operation against the number three guy in Osama bin Laden's Islamic terrorist organization, Ramsey Yusef and ultimately possibly to the successful downing of TWA Flight 800 and the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.

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