Roy Lindley DeVecchio (born April 18, 1940) is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent in charge of managing mob informants.
Eventually, prosecutors uncovered circumstantial evidence that DeVecchio had leaked confidential information to Scarpa on numerous occasions.
The lawyers contended that DeVecchio actively helped Scarpa hunt down and kill opponents, thus making many of the deaths caused by their clients acts of self-defense.
[4] In 2006, Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes indicted DeVecchio on charges that he had helped Scarpa kill four people in the 1980s and early 1990s through supplying confidential FBI information about them.
[9] A retired judge was appointed special prosecutor in 2008 to examine whether Schiro had committed perjury but his report concluded that her interview tape was insufficient to prove she had perjured herself.