Lindley DeVecchio

Connection to Gregory Scarpa racketeering trial After Scarpa pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 1993, former Colombo consigliere Carmine Sessa, who had recently turned informer, tipped off prosecutors about Scarpa's unusual relationship with DeVecchio. Eventually, prosecutors uncovered circumstantial evidence that DeVecchio had leaked confidential information to Scarpa on numerous occasions. Reportedly, DeVecchio had told Scarpa about several former Colombo members who had turned informer. He was suspected of alerting Scarpa that he was being bugged, and that his son was about to be arrested for drug trafficking. The case was based almost entirely on the testimony of Scarpa's longtime girlfriend, Linda Schiro.

However, the case imploded in the fall of 2007 when Tom Robbins of The Village Voice came forward with an interview he and mob expert Jerry Capeci had conducted with Schiro in 1997, in which Schiro denied that DeVecchio had been involved in most of the murders. Robbins and Capeci had interviewed Schiro for a book they had initially planned to write, and had promised Schiro that her revelations would not appear in a news article or be attributed to her. However, Robbins said, the prospect of DeVecchio facing life in prison trumped any promises they had made to Schiro. This forced prosecutors to move for a dismissal of charges against DeVecchio, which was granted on November 1, 2007. 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.

DeVecchio co-authored a book, published in 2011, about his experiences.