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The Brooklyn prosecution of an alleged turncoat FBI agent for four mob murders by the Colombo organized crime family "looked like a slam dunk," CBS' Jeff Glor assured us, until the intervention of a Village Voice reporter. Lin deVecchio was on trial for "betraying the bureau," as Glor put it. On the stand was Linda Schiro, a onetime mobster's moll. She claimed she was witness to deVecchio's conspiracy with her then-boyfriend gangster Gregory Scarpa as they plotted the four killings. The only trouble was that Schiro's testimony greatly embellished, even contradicted, the account she gave to reporter Tom Robbins ten years ago. Robbins produced those interviews "and turned the prosecution case upside down," Glor exclaimed. The corruption case, it turned out, was built on just "one shaky witness."
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