Former Mafia boss testifies in 'Vinny Gorgeous' case that FBI agent was tipster for NY mob

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A former head of the Bonanno organized crime family testified at a murder trial Thursday that a crooked FBI agent tipped off the mob in the early 1980s that he and other gangsters were about to be rounded up.

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