By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Joseph Barone was a former Mafia informant for the FBI when he spent 19 months in a Brooklyn prison before a federal jury acquitted him in 2010.
Barone, now 55, sued the FBI, saying the bureau wanted to discipline him for refusing to trick a gangster from the Gambino crime family into confessing criminal activity, Reuters reports.
But on Monday, a New York judge ruled against Barone, saying there wasn’t enough evidence to provide that agents conspired to discipline him by charging him with a crime he didn’t commit.
Barone was accused of participating in a murder-for-hire plot.
Judge Andrew J. Peck ruled that the FBI did nothing wrong and had probable cause to arrest Barone.
