NEW YORK, NY November 01, 2007 —Former FBI agent Lindley Devecchio was cheered by his ex-colleagues, after a judge in Brooklyn granted a request to drop murder charges against him. The request by prosecutors came one day after a key government witness's testimony was undermined by a taped interview she gave to reporters a decade ago.

REPORTER: Linda Schiro Schiro testified earlier this week that DeVecchio had given her gangster boyfriend, Gregory Scarpa, secret FBI intelligence that was then used to kill four suspected rivals in the Colombo crime family. Michael Vecchione was the lead prosecutor in the case.

VECCHIONE: I think it was clear that the judge was very troubled by what all of us were troubled by, and that is an FBI that should probably have reigned in Scarpa, knowing what he was doing and they didn't do that.

REPORTER: Schiro may face perjury charges.