News Sources: Judge Awards $101M in FBI Frame-Up

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the government to pay more than $101 million to the families of four Massachusetts men wrongly convicted of murder. Joseph Salvati, Peter Limone and the families of two other men who died in prison after being convicted in the 1965 gangland murder they didn't commit, had sued the federal government for malicious prosecution.U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner said it took 30 years to uncover the injustice, and that she was shocked by the FBI's behavior in the case. "Information they provided was false and misleading," she said. "Critical information was withheld and they knew it." Reporters looking for experts to interview in this case can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Saul M. Kassin - Professor of Psychology, Williams College - Kassin is the author of The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure and Criminal Confessions in the Courtroom. He writes and speaks extensively on the reliability of eyewitness testimony, interrogations and coerced confessions, and the psychology of jury decision-making.

Richard Moran - Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College - Moran is a criminologist whose opinion pieces appear frequently in leading newspapers. He is a commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition," and a leading expert on public policy in crime control, capital punishment and incarceration.

James O'Kane - Professor of Sociology, Drew University - O'Kane is an expert on patterns of urban crime, especially murder. His book, The Crooked Ladder, deals with gangsters, ethnicity and the American Dream.