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Article: Hoover's FBI may have suppressed info on Mob hit.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- December 21, 2000
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Top FBI officials, including then-director J. Edgar Hoover, may have suppressed credible information that could have prevented four innocent men from being charged, tried and convicted for a 1965 Mob hit, newly disclosed FBI records reveal.
The explosive FBI reports, released Tuesday by a Justice Task Force probing FBI corruption in Massachusetts, may provide potent new evidence for two men - Joseph Salvati and Peter Limone - who are trying to overturn their 32-year-old convictions for the murder of low-level gangster Edward "Teddy" Deegan.
The reports show that former FBI agent H. Paul Rico, then a top organized crime investigator in the bureau's Boston ...