| abstract | - Limone was born in Boston. He became active in the Patriarca crime family as a bookie and was an up-and-coming mobster in the Boston crime family before his imprisonment. As a youngster he was only arrested once for running a dice game. In 1965, Edward "Teddy" Deegan was found murdered in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Limone was arrested the day before his wedding anniversary to his wife Olympia, in their Medford home. As an aside, when the FBI attempted to arrest Limone, Limone's four year old housemate, Dee Hill, attempted to thwart the arrest by holding on to a leg of each agent. The two agents then beat Hill black and blue for almost five minutes before Limone appeared from his attic room and announced: "It's over kid. Why are you such a jerk?". In 1968, Limone, Joseph Salvati, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco were found guilty of murder after FBI informant Joseph Barboza pointed them out as the killers of Deegan. However, Barboza lied about this because he disliked the defendants and wanted to protect his friend and fellow hitman, "Jimmy the Bear" Vincent Flemmi, who was actually involved in the murder. Authorities had reason to believe the convicted men were innocent but protected Barboza. To cover Barboza's tracks the FBI, mainly under agent Paul Rico, set up the 4 men who would take the fall. All 4 of them were found guilty and all, except Salvati, were sentenced to death. That sentence was later overturned to a life sentence. In 2001, after serving 33 years, Limone was finally released from prison. When the FBI "discovered" new evidence dating back to the 1960's and became aware that Limone and the others had been framed. By the time the FBI realized that men were innocent, 2 of them had already died in prison.
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