working with instead of cracking down on organized crime and here to break it down is peter lance himself author of the book deal with the devil peter thank you so much for coming on great to be with you abbie and you know who would have thought that it took would take a twenty nine year old hacker to turn barack obama into george bush. absolutely well first of all why did the f.b.i. recruit a criminal mafioso i mean what was in it for both parties here well it first of all for years as you know j. edgar hoover even denied the existence of the mafia but when he finally came around and he kind of had to face it they began this thing called the top echelon informant program where in they would recruit mobsters who would supposedly give them good intelligence that they could use to bust other mobsters but gregory scarpa sr was the most violent vicious. member of organized crime in the history of cause in austria he had a seventy thousand dollars a week drug operation he was the largest trafficker of stolen credit cards in new york had an international auto theft ring had a bank robbery by pa

working with instead of cracking down on organized crime and here to break it down is peter lance himself author of the book deal with the devil peter thank you so much for coming on great to be with you abbie and you know who would have thought that it took would take a twenty nine year old hacker to turn barack obama into george bush. absolutely well first of all why did the f.b.i. recruit a criminal mafioso i mean what was in it for both parties here well it first of all for years as you know j. edgar hoover even denied the existence of the mafia but when he finally came around and he kind of had to face it they began this thing called the top echelon informant program wherein they would recruit mobsters who would supposedly give them good intelligence that they could use to bust other mobsters but gregory scarpa sr was the most violent vicious. member of organized crime in the history of cause in austria he had a seventy thousand dollars a week drug operation he was the largest trafficker of stolen credit cards in new york had an international auto theft ring had a bank robbery bypass

joining us in the guest spot, acclaimed investigative journalist peter lance. days in jail. 26 murders, either executed, ordered or committed. and $1 million in fees or rewards from the fbi. this is an extraordinary story you've got here. >> well, toure, this is the whitey bulger story on steroids. he was by far the most vicious, violent killer in the history. he actually confessed to his killing partner the '90s he'd stop counting after 50 murders, which makes him one of the top serial killers of all time. yet, while three separate justice department strike forces, chicago, brooklyn, newark, were endeavoring good people in our justice department to put him away, the fbi was just secretly back dooring and keeping him on the street. only did 30 days in jail in 30-plus years, 40 years of murder and mayhem. his memos went right to every fbi director. his debriefing memos. on my website, peterlance.com, i have one in the upper left-hand corner. a memo from 1962 where he gave the entire mafia playbook a year and a half. >> so they're just only two in the situation wh