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6-24-01 Mob-Busters Find Stoolies In Ranks.
By AL GUART
June 24, 2001 -- The FBI isn't the only law-enforcement agency struggling with moles who pass along secrets to known criminals. The state Organized Crime Task Force has had its share of
The task force, a combination of state and local law-enforcement agencies, had at least two people funneling information to the Genovese and Gambino crime rings, mob stoolie William Marshall told the FBI. One alleged mole was a secretary who had the hots for a "Louie Gigante," and tipped Gigante off to a planned Sept. 13, 1997, raid on a Gambino soldier's home, Marshall told the FBI in April 1998. It was not clear whether Marshall was referring to the brother of Genovese boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante, or another relative with the same first name. The unidentified secretary would turn up at Mulino's Italian restaurant in White Plains and "was always trying to get Gigante's attention and was flirtatious," Marshall said. "This woman liked Louie Gigante, and had come into the restaurant with a guy to try and make Louie jealous," Marshall said. "The woman was intoxicated and became intoxicated when her plan did not work." The woman then threatened to "give [Gigante] up" and "created a scene" in the restaurant that continued outside, Marshall said. The secretary is still working for the task force - but she has been reassigned to another job and no longer has access to classified information, said Darren Dopp, a spokesman for state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. "This was investigated, and we determined there was no criminal wrongdoing on the part of that employee," he explained. Another alleged snitch was a retired Westchester police detective who Marshall said supplied Gambino soldier Craig DePalma with inside information in exchange for cash between 1995 and 1998. Marshall said he met with the detective, whom he identified only as Andrew, in January 1997 in a bid to find out about an ongoing investigation. He said Andrew told him, "Yeah, they're working on a serious RICO [racketeering] case. It's a federal thing." Andrew then told Marshall he would attempt to find out who the informants and agents on the case were. Marshall also said Andrew told him he could testify about a mistake made in bugging Gambino soldier Greg DePalma's house that would help DePalma beat gambling and extortion charges. Dopp, of the state attorney general's office, said Andrew had been indicted in 1998 by the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office. He did not immediately know the charges or the status of the case. The Post was unable to contact the retired detective. The FBI was rocked last week when an analyst in the agency's Las Vegas office was busted for allegedly passing secrets to a retired agent, who then sold them to organized-crime figures.
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