The
extortion case against Thomas DiFiore, a reputed boss in the Bonanno
crime family, encompassed thousands of pages of evidence, including
surveillance photographs, cellphone and property records, and hundreds
of hours of audio recordings.
But
even as Mr. DiFiore sat in a jail cell, sending nearly daily emails to
his lawyers on his case and his deteriorating health, federal
prosecutors in Brooklyn sought to add another layer of evidence: those
very emails. The prosecutors informed Mr. DiFiore last month that they
would be reading the emails sent to his lawyers from jail, potentially
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