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Wrongfully convicted man arrested for operating gambling ring

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, Massachusetts -- As reported by The Boston Globe: "Peter J. Limone, one of four men awarded $101.7 million last year by a federal judge who said the FBI framed them for a notorious 1965 gangland murder, was arrested yesterday on charges that he ran a tightly controlled illegal gambling operation that brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"Limone, 74, who spent 33 years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out in 2001, allegedly engaged in loan sharking and extortion and made four illegal gambling parlors in Middlesex County pay him tens of thousands of dollars in rent or face the threat of violence, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr.

"The Medford man was among 20 people indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury investigating illegal gambling and organized crime. Underlings referred to him as "Chief Crazy Horse" and "The Camera Guy" in conversations secretly recorded by the State Police, Leone said. He gave no nickname explanations.

"...Limone was arrested at his two-story house in the late afternoon and booked at the State Police barracks in Danvers. The arrest was made nine months after State Police investigators executed a search warrant at the residence in connection with the alleged gambling ring. Leone said the illegal activities continued despite the search.

"...Limone's arrest marked a startling twist in the saga of the four men who were wrongly convicted of the March 12, 1965, gangland killing of Edward "Teddy" Deegan in Chelsea, a case that has haunted the FBI.

"Limone spent half his life in prison, including four years on death row, before he walked out of Middlesex Superior Court a free man on Jan. 5, 2001, one arm cradling a bouquet of yellow roses, the other wrapped around his tearful wife..."

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