Village Voice Reporter's Tapes Derail FBI Mob Trial
By AAN Staff
november 1, 2007 10:36 am
Prosecutors and defense lawyers
met yesterday with the
Voice's Tom Robbins to listen to his taped interviews that brought into question the testimony of the star witness in the trial of Lindley DeVecchio, a former FBI agent accused of helping the mob commit murder. By the end of the day, prosecutors said the recordings gave them no choice but to drop the case, the
New York Times reports. Robbins, who had interviewed Linda Schiro in 1997, says he struggled with the decision to make the tapes available. "Tell me what else I could have done?"
Robbins asks the Daily News. "If you sit silent, then someone could go to jail for life. I chose not to live with that."
UPDATE: The Voice has digitized the tapes and
made the files available online.