Wives Of Men Framed
For Murder
By The FBI Speak
FBI - Destroyer Of Lives
August 18, 2007
As someone who has been a well
documented victim of FBI criminal negligence, in a case witnessed by many, I was
appalled, but somehow not surprised because I knew they had it in them, at the
terrible story of 4 men the agency framed for murder and left to rot in jail for
decades, though they knew they were innocent. Two of the men died in prison. It gives credence to many stories
inmates tell of being framed. Not to mention, there are many cases of DNA
testing exonerating inmates many years after they were jailed.
Not everyone in prison belongs there. Some have been falsely accused and
convicted.
And no one is going to convince me
that 2.2 million people in America broke the law - and 2.2 million people is the
official number of the U.S. prison population. A recent $110,000,000 verdict was
awarded to the above mentioned 4 men's families, but I think it is not enough. I
also think the agents who perpetrated this heinous crime that is the ultimate
betrayal of public trust from a government agency, should spend decades of their
lives in prison, just like those innocent men did. They lost decades of their lives,
so should you. It's really sad when a law enforcement agency commits more crimes
than it solves.
STORY SOURCE
Wives Struggled
After FBI Framed Spouses
By DENISE LAVOIE
08.16.07, 2:53 PM ET - For three decades,
Marie Salvati and Olympia Limone essentially lived as widows, struggling to make
ends meet as they raised four children on their own. Their husbands grew old
behind bars after being convicted of a murder the FBI knew they did not commit. Now the women hope a
judge's ruling awarding them and two other families nearly $102 million marks
the end of their struggle in a long story of love, devotion and survival.
For many years, the
two women would see each other about once a month, across the visiting room of a
state prison. Their conversations were rarely more than a wave hello or a "how's
the family?" but they didn't really need words to understand each other's lives.
In the days after the
verdict, the two women and their husbands spoke to The Associated Press about
living apart for so long, and the bonds that kept them together.
For Marie Salvati,
there was never a moment of doubt, even after her husband, Joe, was charged with
murder, convicted and sentenced. "He told me, 'Marie, I
want you to know I had nothing to do with this,' and you know, from that moment
on, I knew I was in this with him for his life sentence," she said. "I used to tell him,
'You take care of yourself in there and I'll take care of the family on the
outside'," she said.
And for 30 years,
that's exactly what she did. Every week, she
traveled up to two hours each way to visit her husband in prison. She and the
kids endured humiliating pat-downs and searches. The visits, she said, were to
buoy her husband's spirits and to preserve the bond between a father and his
children. It was hardly the life
they had planned. For the
rest of this story visit Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap
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