Federal Prosecutor Cleared Of Charges That He Pulled for a Mafioso
U.S. Assistant Attorney Jeff Auerhahn, free of a cloud of suspicion that he helped protect mobster Vincent "Vinnie the Animal" Ferrara. Since 2003 U.S. Assistant Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn has been under a cloud of suspicion , when a federal judge accused him of outrageous misconduct. But A recent panel of federal judges has lifted the cloud for Auerhahn, who was facing disciplinary action while handing the court’s chief judge a rebuke, according to a story by David Boeri called Federal Prosecutor Cleared Of Charges To Surprise Of Some and published on WBUR . Vinnie the Animal "Trouble began for Jeffrey Auerhahn with his case against Mafia lieutenant Vincent Ferrara, known to the cops as 'Vinnie the Animal.' [Ferrara, from Boston, Mass. , was formerly a capo of the New England -based Patriarca crime family of La Cosa Nostra .] "In the 1990s, Ferrara pled guilty and got an even longer prison sentence because a witness testifi...