They wanted to turn in their friend group including themselves to the police for an accidental murder they all committed ten years previously.
Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the scandal.
This turned out not to be the case; they were killed because they got caught up in a feud involving the local Tong boss.
Assigned to investigate Philly's chapter of the Chinese mob, he quickly discovers who the local boss is and could've arrested him at any time, but instead opts to help him, feeling that someone even worse would just take his place, and better the devil you know.
As if this wasn't bad enough, the investigation reveals that he was also a pedophile.
A friend of the victim anonymously posts a false confession to having murdered her, complete with a drawing that matches an image that had been drawn on the victim's leg, because he wants to force the police to take another look.
Jeffries, however, met the right people, who straightened him out, while the positive influences in the gangster's life, the episode's victims, were killed.
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