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Court opinion
2007-07-26
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Limone v. United States, 497 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D. Mass. 2007)
Judge Gertner's findings of July 26, 2007, after a bench trial, that the 1968 convictions for the 1965 Deegan murder rested on Joseph Barboza's perjured testimony and that the FBI was liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
- Date
- 2007-07-26
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Civ. Action No. 02cv10890-NG
- Rights
- Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Judge Gertner, July 26, 2007, after a 22-day bench trial. Peter Limone, the estates of Enrico (Henry) Tameleo and Louis Greco, and Joseph Salvati sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. All four had been convicted in 1968 of the murder of Edward “Teddy” Deegan.
The court found: “The plaintiffs were convicted of Deegan’s murder based on the perjured testimony of Joseph ‘The Animal’ Barboza.” It found that the FBI agents “handling” Barboza were Dennis Condon and H. Paul Rico, and it discusses the FBI’s “Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program.”
Part III.A describes the Bureau’s surveillance of Raymond Patriarca: “On March 6, 1962, the FBI installed electronic surveillance without a warrant at Patriarca’s office in Providence, Rhode Island. FBI agents monitored the Patriarca wiretap, transcribing conversations.” The court describes the FBI’s Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program, which, it found, supplied the Bureau with information at odds with Barboza’s account. This archive read the introduction and Part III.A closely; the rest of the long opinion was not read for this page. The First Circuit affirmed in 579 F.3d 79.