Former FBI agent indicted in connection with mafia killings

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.

R Lindley DeVecchio co-operated with Gregory Scarpa Jr, a captain in the Colombo crime family, between 1987 and 1992, said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J Hynes.