Dec 13, 2006 9:26 pm US/Eastern
Dukakis & Bailey Testify At Salvati Trial
by Dan Rea
BOSTON (CBS4) ―
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Dukakis defended another FBI agent who he believes may have been manipulated.
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Two high profile witnesses appeared in Boston federal court on Wednesday. F. Lee Bailey and former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis were called to testify in the Salvati lawsuit.
The lawyers for four men wrongfully convicted in the 1968 Gangland murder continue to build their case against the FBI.
In 1968 the FBI relied on false testimony of Joe Barboza to convict four men for the murder of Edward "Teddy" Deegan. Two died in prison.
According to CBS4's Dan Rea, the other two, Joe Salvati and Peter Limone, are living testimony to the corruption of the judicial system.
Late Wednesday, Dukakis defended another FBI agent who he believes may have been manipulated.
"You hate to think of yourself as having been manipulated," Dukakis said. "It's pretty obvious, in retrospect, we had information about these folks that was false and that there was evidence which would have absolved them of the crime that was never disclosed by people who should of disclosed it."
Wednesday, Bailey testified that in 1970 Joe Barboza that he, with the help of FBI agents, had framed four innocent men for the Deegan murder.
Barboza told Bailey that he wanted to recant his testimony in the Deegan murder trial. In court Wednesday Bailey said that Barbosa told him his false testimony was orchestrated and encouraged by H. Paul Rico, a former FBI agent.
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