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Title:
Deal with the Devil:
The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer
Author: Peter Lance
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From an award-winning investigative reporter: the shocking story of the mob killer who
terrorized the streets of New York City for decades...while working for the FBI.
In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Peter
Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files and exclusive new interviews to
disclose the epic saga of Colombo family capo Gregory Scarpa, Sr., who spent more than
30 years as a paid Top-Echelon FBI informant while wreaking havoc as a drug dealer,
loan shark, bank robber, hijacker, high-end securities thief - and killer.
A Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders - earning nicknames including
"the Grim Reaper" and "the Killing Machine" - Greg Scarpa was enlisted by the FBI as
early as 1960. His detailed debriefings on Mafia practices and activities went
straight to J. Edgar Hoover and revealed the structure of Cosa Nostra long before the
celebrated Valachi hearings. In 42 years of murder and racketeering, Scarpa served
only 30 days in jail, thanks to his secret relationship with the Feds. But Scarpa's
most deadly reign of terror came in the period from 1980 to 1992, when more than half
his homicides occurred - even as Scarpa was serving as a paid informant under
Supervisory Special Agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, who ran two organized crime squads in
the FBI's New York Office.
The celebrated case agent on the 1985-1986 Mafia Commission prosecution, DeVecchio had
persuaded Scarpa to return to the fold as an informant, under laws that explicitly
forbid organized crime insiders from committing murder or other crimes while receiving
compensation from the Bureau. And yet, drawing on secret memos that went to every FBI
director from Hoover to Louis Freeh, Lance documents that Scarpa not only continued
his violent rampage during these years, but actually launched a new war for control of
the Colombo crime family - a conflict that left 12 dead and dozens injured.
Before he died of AIDS, contracted through a tainted blood transfusion, Scarpa
committed or ordered 26 murders - including the violent rubout of his own brother Sal
in 1987 and the drive-by slaying of his nephew Gus Farace, which triggered a 500-agent
manhunt - all while serving as an informant for Lin DeVecchio. When DeVecchio himself
was indicted on four counts of murder in 2007, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes called the
case "the most stunning example of official corruption... I have ever seen." Yet the
murder charges against DeVecchio were dismissed a short time later - even as a New
York State Supreme Court judge described the FBI's association with Scarpa as a "deal
with the devil."
After the case's abrupt dismissal, Lance started peeling back the layers on what
defense attorneys called Scarpa's "unholy alliance" with the FBI. Through exclusive
interviews with Scarpa's son Greg Jr. and former Lucchese boss Anthony "Gaspipe"
Casso, among others, as well as more than 1,150 pages of confidential briefing memos,
many revealed here for the first time, Lance traces links between the Scarpa case,
the infamous Mafia Cops case, and more.
Written with the same astounding capacity for penetrating criminal networks that
marked Lance's previous books, Deal with the Devil is a page-turning work of
investigative journalism that reads like a Scorsese film.
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