Record payment awarded
Boston.com
A federal judge, in a scathing rebuke of the FBI, ordered the government to pay a record $101.7 million for its role in wrongfully sending four men to prison for a 1965 gangland murder in Chelsea. At left, Joseph Salvati appeared to be a happy man when he walked into the federal courthouse in Boston this morning before hearing the decision for his wrongful conviction.
A federal judge, in a scathing rebuke of the FBI, ordered the government to pay a record $101.7 million for its role in wrongfully sending four men to prison for a 1965 gangland murder in Chelsea.

At left, Joseph Salvati appeared to be a happy man when he walked into the federal courthouse in Boston this morning before hearing the decision for his wrongful conviction.
(Globe Staff Photo / Bill Greene)