Mob witness’s evidence against ex-FBI agent collapsed following an extraordinary and lengthy investigation in a bid to convict Lindley DeVecchio, report Tom Hays and Larry McShane

New York mafia bosses discussed killing Rudy Giuliani in 1986 when he was a mob-busting federal prosecutor, according to testimony in the murder trial of a former FBI agent.

A former FBI agent whose reputation was considered unimpeachable by colleagues was indicted today on murder charges for allegedly providing inside information to a Mafia figure, who then ordering the killings.