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BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Loretta C. Marra and Dennis J. Malvasi, the Brooklyn pro-lifers who unwittingly put the FBI on the trail of James C. Kopp, are getting a plea deal with the probability of a much lighter prison sentence because they helped persuade Kopp not to fight extradition from France in 2001. One of Marra’s associates—a man who was offered the opportunity to have dinner with Kopp abroad—was an FBI informer masquerading as a member of the pro-life community to track down Kopp.  The report comes from sources quoted by Buffalo News—one of the few media outlets, like the Hamilton Spectator, taking an active interest in the case.  Kopp was picked up in Dinan, France, in March 2001 and flown to Western New York early in June. At the time, police claim that Marra and Malvasi were making plans with for Kopp’s secret return. Some unprofessional police are aggressively blackening the accused abortionist-killer’s name, even though nothing has been proven in the case to date. “He thinks he is a prophet, doing God’s work,” one law enforcement official is quoted. “If he had never been identified and captured in the Slepian case, we believe there may have been more doctors targeted.” But the officer provided no evidence.  “To create the illusion of evidence [the FBI] knows does not exist,” says Bruce A. Barket, the couple’s lawyer, “… to me, this says they must have a very poor case against James Kopp if they’re resorting to these kinds of improper tactics,” including “the FBI manufacturing and planting evidence.”  To read about the Kopp case in the Buffalo News see: https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020703/1010527.asp   For previous LifeSite coverage of suspicious gaps in the case against Kopp see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/may/02052304.html and https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/may/02051304.html