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| FBI 'allowed mafia to continue with
plot to kill gangster' |
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
11 August 2001
Already struggling to mend its tattered reputation in the wake of
a major spy scandal and a catalogue of high-profile botched cases, the
FBI is facing fresh embarrassment. Evidence emerged on Friday it had knowingly
allowed paid informants inside the Mexican Mafia in Los Angeles to plot
and commit a series of major crimes, including murder.
According to internal FBI reports and transcripts of wiretapped
conversations obtained by the LA magazine New Times, the federal authorities
followed a plot to murder Chuey Martinez, a Latino gangster, for seven
months in 1997-1998 without arresting the conspirators or issuing any warnings.
In that time, Martinez was shot at and almost killed, another gangster
who had been repeatedly threatened was murdered and associates of Martinez
were assaulted in prison. All this was monitored and followed by five FBI
agents, their supervisor and two federal prosecutors without any intervention.
"This shouldn't have happened," a former deputy assistant director of the
FBI, Danny Coulson, said. "I don't know how they couldn't have acted on
this information. I cannot believe a supervisor wouldn't have recognised
this as a conspiracy to commit murder."
The case echoes a long-running scandal in Boston, in which the Feds
gave a mafia chieftain, Whitey Bulger, a license to commit crimes, including
murder, over several decades. Two men, Joseph Salvati and Peter Limone,
spent more than 30 years in prison for crimes they did not commit because
the FBI chose to protect its informants rather than release exculpatory
evidence.
The bureau's chief informant in the LA case was a gangster called
John Terscak, who received $40,000 (£28,000) for his services. His
contract explicitly forbade him to initiate crimes or participate in acts
of violence. From October 1997, however, clear evidence emerged of a plot
against Martinez involving Terscak and a second FBI informant, Ben Montoya.
By mid-December, a plan was openly discussed to open fire on Martinez
in his car, and three days later it went ahead. Martinez was hit in the
hand, arm and head but escaped.
Fresh evidence continued to surface. In April 1998, a Central Valley
drug dealer called Victor Murillo was shot dead; explicit threats against
him had been heard by the FBI five months earlier. Around the same time,
two associates of Martinez were attacked in the LA County jail on direct
orders from Terscak.
It was only after Terscak ordered Martinez's murder in late April
that the FBI finally warned Martinez he was in danger. In the end, everyone
was arrested and convicted of multiple violent offences, including Terscak
who was cut no slack despite months of indulgence from his handlers.
Mr Coulson said it was highly illegal for the FBI to allow crimes
to be committed in this way. He said: "You can't sacrifice human life to
make cases."
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