The Brooklyn DA’s Office – armed with “bombshell” new evidence – is investigating charges that an FBI agent who retired nine years ago leaked confidential intelligence to a Mafia boss.
“Dramatic new information” has surfaced about former agent Lindley DeVecchio’s relationship with the late Gregory “The Killing Machine” Scarpa Sr. during the bloody Colombo crime-family wars of the 1990s, sources told The Post yesterday.
A key focus of the probe is the 1992 Brooklyn murder of Scarpa rival Nicholas Grancio minutes after DeVecchio allegedly arranged to have an FBI team stop tailing him.
Scarpa, who was a paid mob informant working for DeVecchio, gunned down Grancio while he sat in his car. Scarpa was never interrogated about the hit.
Several FBI agents questioned DeVecchio’s actions in the case and told their superiors that he had tried to obstruct a probe of the mob capo.
The FBI spent two years investigating DeVecchio’s allegedly corrupt relationship with Scarpa without bringing any charges. DeVecchio retired in 1996, after the internal probe ended.
The accusations made against DeVecchio include telling Scarpa his son was about to be arrested.
DeVecchio insisted there was nothing inappropriate about his relationship with Scarpa.
In a 1995 affidavit, he stated, “I established an excellent rapport with Scarpa, but I always remembered that he was a ‘wiseguy’ and I was an FBI agent.”
Scarpa died of AIDS in prison in 1994. DeVecchio, 65, lives in Florida.