July 13, 2018
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday dismissed a $60 million suit which had attempted to hold the United States government responsible for a 1994 mob murder by an allegedly "mishandled" Federal Bureau of Investigation informant, saying the doctrine of sovereign immunity prevents the suit from going forward.
October 20, 2017
The FBI is to blame for the 1994 murder of a man shot in a case of mistaken identity because the agency failed to properly monitor the illegal activities of its cooperating witnesses, according to a suit filed Friday in Massachusetts federal court.