Judge seeks data on alleged informant

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 26, 1998| Author: John Ellement, Globe Staff | Copyright information

A state judge has asked the FBI to turn over documents detailing its relationship with an informant who is awaiting trial on charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring out of his Medford home for several years.

Vincent J. Ricci, 50, has alleged that he was working for the FBI when State Police raided his home in September 1995 and seized more than 500 grams of cocaine, 20 firearms, and $100,000 cash.

A second man, Christopher Brunco, whom authorities allege delivered the coca...

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