Aug 16, 2006 9:09 pm US/Eastern
Gov't Lawyers: Dismiss Salvati-Limone Lawsuit
Both Spent More Than 30 Years In Jail For Wrongful Conviction
BOSTON (CBS4) ―
Government lawyers have asked a federal judge to throw out several multi-million dollar lawsuits brought on by Joe Salvati and Peter Limone, who have asked to be compensated for their wrongful convictions in the1965 murder case of Edward "Teddy" Deegan, in which an FBI agent allegedly used a corrupt informant to frame Salvati and Limone.
Salvati and Limone spent thirty years in prison for the murder. Five years ago, long hidden FBI documents proved their innocence.
In 2001, a Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled FBI agents withheld evidence that might have proved Salvati and Limone's innocence and the state dropped the charges.
Salvati's attorney, Victor J. Garo says the FBI in 1968 helped mob hit man Joseph "The Animal" Barboza frame Salvati, and three others in the bureau's war on organized crime.
FBI files show the bureau knew that one of its criminal informants gave false testimony that convicted Salvati and three other men who had no connection to the crime.
"I say as an officer of the court, that we believe we have the evidence to show that the federal government supported perjury in the Deegan murder case," Garo said outside the court Wednesday.
In court Wednesday, a United States Assistant District Attorney argued an FBI agent did not instigate the prosecution of Salvati and Limone.
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