all pled guilty except depalma, who insisted on going to trial.the courtroom, the man he trusted as jack falcone turned right before his eyes into fbi agent jack garcia. >> keteyian: describe the look on greg depalma's face when you're testifying against him in court. >> garcia: oh, it was classic. he's looking at me. you know, you could tell, like, if he could just come... get his hands around my neck, you know, he'd just take me out. and i'm walking out of the court room. i had to pass by his table, and he just looked at me and he said to me, you know, you're going to have to probably blot this out because "you [no audio]" you know, so... so i just walked away... and, you know... >> keteyian: from the bottom of his heart. >> garcia: from the bottom of his heart. >> keteyian: depalma was sentenced to 12 years in prison. and while garcia says he is proud of the outcome of the case, he's angry over the decision to end the investigation, a decision that kept him from being the first law enforcement agent in history to become a made member of the mob

and greg depalma saw me as an earner. >> keteyian: for two years, chest, and for good measure, gave depalma this cell phone with a bugging device that allowed the fbi to track depalma's location and listen in on his conversations, even when the phone was turned off. falcone became like a son to depalma, at his side while he and other mobsters concocted schemes to extort businesses, sell fake sports memorabilia, and collect a tax on nearly every union construction site in new york. >> garcia: greg depalma told me that, in new york city, 2% of all construction goes to the mob. >> keteyian: you're talking what, tens... >> garcia: you want to do business... >> keteyian: ...of millions of dollars? >> garcia: that's the mob tax, it's called. >> keteyian: in building their case against the gambinos, garcia and his handler, nat parisi, would meet up to five times a day, often in public places like this home depot, exchanging evidence and information. >> garcia: i would come in with an envelope that would contain all the recording devices which i wore. what we knew, the intelligence that we were gat

at 72, depalma had a reputation hair-trigger temper. >> garcia: greg depalma, i would best describe him as the devil incarnate, a very evil man, very evil man. >> keteyian: correct me if i'm wrong-- who once used a power tool... >> garcia: yes. >> keteyian: ...on someone's head... >> garcia: that is correct. >> keteyian: ...who he thought was stealing from him? >> garcia: yes. >> keteyian: a man not given to subtlety. >> garcia: he just didn't care. and he took his oath and he really lived by it, where the family came first-- that if your child was dying, laying in bed with few minutes to live, or seconds, and the boss calls you, you better leave that child and go see the boss because that's your real family. >> keteyian: before long, jack falcone won over depalma, first by giving him cartons of counterfeit cigarettes for his birthday, and then by offering him what became an endless stream of luxury goods, all supplied to jack by the fbi. there's a word for the kind of guy you were in the mafia. you're a... you're an "earner." >> garcia: i'm an earner. that? >> garcia: being an earner i

>>reg depalma: so there is only one thing i'm pushing to do asap, is you. [no audio] everything else. >> falcone: well, i appreciate that, buddy. >> depalma: that would be the second guy. i mean, you want it, right?< >> falcone: yeah, of course. i'm honored for that. i'm even honored that you know, you u ow... that i will nener let you down, either. >> keteyian: what's going through your mind when you hear those words, "you're going to become a made man." >> falcone: i couldn't believe it. and i feel, i said, "wow, we're here, we've really come a long hehe i am, an fbi agent.t. he's trusted me so much that he would propose me, considering that this is a seasoned, hardcore mobst. >> keteyian: there had to be some sort of escape plan if things went wrong. if you were asked to kill somebody, what was the out? >> garcia: the scenario i set up if i was ever going to be involved, et's take a ride, jack. we're going to go take care of this guy." i was going to have a heart atatck. so picture this-- all of a sudden we got to do somebody, i'm going to start wailing,

. >> miguel, as w w watch thiss plala out, lenny depalma, former u.s. marshal, i had occasion to go out with one of the fugitive task forces. what should people inside their homes be doing knowing that a police o oicer might come. ing in your backyard or working his way down the side, what should pple do to protect themselves in a situation like in? >> anybody that's at home -- again, it is 5:00 or close to it out there. there's a lot of unoccupied homes out there. so if this individual, this suspect is at large still and gotten into one of those homes, that could be an issue in itself. but the public needs to remain theysee, hear anything at all, call the professionals, let them do what they need to do. however what i'm worried about is why were these three suspects still together? they hit this place very quick. witnesses said they casually walked out, got into an su within a couple of miles of the first target, were they looking at something else, that's anyone's requestquestion. from a law enforcement perspective you got that all in the back of your

depalma. it's vitamin c. i watched you very carefully, detective, but i missed you slipping them into his pocket. maybe because you watched the wrong detective. captioning sponsored by universal studios domestic television >>> the matchups are set for this year's college football playoff. the game also be played on new year's eve. clemson is ranked number one. the tigers will play the fourth ranked oklahoma sooners in the orange bowl. secoco ranked alabama will take the field against number three michigan state in the cotton bowl. the winners will square off in the national championship game in arizona. >>> meanwhile, the university of houston is still investigating how a postgame victory celebration turned into an on-field brawl. fans rushed the field on saturday after the cougars beat temple, locking up a bowl bid. hired by the school beating some of the fans. manuel bojorquez has more. >> reporter: it's developed into an unspoken tradition. your team wins a big game and celebration. but here in houston ove