A mur­der charge against Louis Greco was final­ly dis­missed by Massachusetts author­i­ties 9 years after he died in prison. According to the Associated Press, in 2000, a Justice Department task force uncov­ered secret F.B.I. mem­o­ran­da show­ing that Mr. Greco and three co-defen­dants, Peter J. Limone, Joseph Salvati, and Edward Tameleo, had been wrong­ly con­vict­ed of a mur­der that occurred in 1965 based on per­jured tes­ti­mo­ny. (Limone had been sen­tenced to death, but was lat­er released and exon­er­at­ed in 2001. Tameleo also died in prison.) The F.B.I.‘s rela­tion­ship with mob inform­ers has been the sub­ject of a Congressional inquiry. In September 2004, a fed­er­al judge allowed a suit filed by Limone, Salvati and Greco’s fam­i­ly for mali­cious pros­e­cu­tion and wrong­ful impris­on­ment to go for­ward. In exon­er­at­ing Greco, assis­tant dis­trict attor­ney, Mark Lee, of Suffolk County said: ​“It appears that jus­tice may not have been done.” (N.Y. Times, Nov. 5, 2004). Limone was spared exe­cu­tion when Massachusetts abol­ished the death penal­ty in 1974. See DPIC’s Innocence List for a descrip­tion of Peter Limone’s case.

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