and how much the system will do to avoid owning up to it, is what really started me on distrusting the .gov.
It's also a big part of why I started referring to that agency as the EffingBI.
The feds knew that these two men murdered Deegan. In fact, the FBI had
bugged Patriarca’s home in Providence, R.I., and documented on tape a
conversation in which Barboza asked for and received permission to whack
Deegan. But the FBI did not want to lose their highly prized,
top-echelon informants. What they did next would alter the trajectory of
criminal justice in the region for a generation. The FBI and
prosecutors had Barboza take the stand and tell a fabricated version of
the murder that would lead to the conviction of two innocent men, Peter
Limone and Joe Salvati. After being declared guilty, Limone and Salvati
were sentenced to death row.
The framing of innocent citizens in a capital-murder case by withholding
evidence and suborning perjury—all to protect notorious criminals who
were government informants—became the dirty secret of federal law
enforcement in New England. In the years that followed, the convictions
of Limone and Salvati would be challenged in various local jurisdictions
but the government always fought back. It is difficult to know how many
agents, assistant U.S. attorneys, district attorneys, and cops were in
on the conspiracy. Prosecutors understood that they were to do
everything within their power to preserve the convictions and ensure
that no further examinations of the evidence would ever take place in
court. Virtually the entire system became part of an effort to safeguard
the false conviction so that criminals, protected by the government,
could remain free.
"We have to protect our informants, so don't worry about a couple of innocent men dying in prison."
The level of disgust I have for these people is indescribable.
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