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From an award-winning investigative reporter: the surprising history of the mob killer who terrorized the avenues of NEW YORK for decades...while working for the FBI. In Package with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Peter Lance pulls on three generations of once-secret FBI data and exclusive new interviews to disclose the epic saga of Colombo family capo Gregory Scarpa, Sr., who put in more than 30 years as a paid top-echelon FBI informant while wreaking havoc as a medicine supplier, loan shark, lender 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 comprehensive debriefings on Mafia practices and activities gone right to J. Edgar Hoover and uncovered the structure of Cosa Nostra a long time before the famous Valachi hearings. In 42 years of murder and racketeering, Scarpa offered only thirty days in jail, thanks to his secret relationship with the Feds. But Scarpa's most deadly reign of terror came up in the period from 1980 to 1992, when over fifty percent his homicides happened - even as Scarpa was serving as a paid informant under Supervisory Special Agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, who ran two arranged offense squads in the FBI's NY Office. The celebrated circumstance agent on the 1985-1986 Mafia Percentage prosecution, DeVecchio possessed persuaded Scarpa to come back to the collapse as an informant, under regulations that explicitly forbid arranged offense insiders from committing murder or other crimes while receiving settlement from the Bureau. And yet, drawing on hidden knowledge memos that went to every FBI director from Hoover to Louis Freeh, Lance documents that Scarpa not only sustained his violent rampage of these years, but actually launched a new battle for control of the Colombo offense family - a discord that remaining 12 inactive and dozens harmed. Before he passed away of Assists, contracted by using a tainted blood transfusion, Scarpa dedicated or ordered 26 murders - like 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 matters of murder in 2007, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes called the truth "the most stunning exemplory case of official corruption... I have ever seen." Yet the murder charges against DeVecchio were dismissed a short time later - even as a New York Condition Supreme Court judge described the FBI's relationship with Scarpa as a "deal with the devil." Following the case's abrupt dismissal, Lance began peeling back the levels on what protection lawyers called Scarpa's "unholy alliance" with the FBI. Through exclusive interviews with Scarpa's kid, Greg Jr., and previous Lucchese employer Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, among others, as well as more than 1,150 web pages of private briefing memos, many uncovered here for the first time, Lance traces links between your Scarpa circumstance, the infamous Mafia Cops circumstance, and more. Written with the same astounding convenience of penetrating criminal sites that designated Lance's previous literature, Package with the Devil is a page-turning work of investigative journalism that reads like a Scorsese film.
