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Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits

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Posted on Thu Mar 10, 2005 at 04:16:25 PM EST
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Two New York City police detectives, now retired, have been charged with participating in or attempting to commit eleven murders. At least five of those crimes, and a host of others, allegedly occurred during their tenure as police officers.

In one of the most shocking accusations of police corruption ever in New York, Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito were arrested on Wednesday evening for undertaking a series of Mafia murders, attempted murders, a kidnapping and various other crimes. The two were arrested in Las Vegas, where they now live.

Eppolito apparently took advantage of his work as cop-turned-hit man to prepare himself for a movie role. He played "Fat Andy" in "Goodfellas."

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    Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits | 10 comments (10 topical)
    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 10, 2005 at 06:30:45 PM EST
    Its york City 20 percent of the cops kill for money, come on people this is old news, what real news is 80 percent didn't kill anyone last year. but remember cops and gangs are the same, and today both sides are one side, got me? oh yes is bush part of M13? Fox is.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 10, 2005 at 09:51:05 PM EST
    Hmm ... Google Richard Ford and Robert Von Villas, LAPD Devonshire division.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 04:52:39 AM EST
    Shocking? My chuckle for the overstatement of the day. I could tell you tales of judges and attorneys just as dirty and I've a pretty good idea where Hoffa sleeps.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#4)
    by kdog on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 06:36:35 AM EST
    Police dept's are kind of like organized crime syndicates. The internal code of silence, the extortion, the murder. We must remember that the police and the criminals are in the same business.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 11:00:04 AM EST
    As I've discussed with you before on different threads, kdog, during my indiscrete youth, I dated for five years a guy in a motorcycle "club" (Remember SNL's "it's not a gang...it's a club). Now these guys were no Hells Angels. They for the most part were well-to-do local business owners and what some would call "good 'ole boys". They also dealt serious amounts of coke (I was lucky my boyfriend was an old style biker - strictly Peter Fondaesque Hallucinagens and didn't touch the stuff), and were basically, small time wannabe organized criminals. With that said, MOST of them had immediate family members in law enforcement (i.e. state troopers, DA's office, city cops). THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE in how the "gang" of bikers and "fraternal brotherhood" of police recruited and enculturated their members, how they used patronage and family connections to circumvent inconvenient laws and how they dealt with "disloyalty" within their ranks. So - no surprise. Any broken broomsticks found??

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 11:01:15 AM EST
    If you look up Louis Eppolito in the IMDB they describe him as "One of the most highly decorated policemen in the history of the New York Police Department." Not a good look for good cops in NYC. http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0258388/bio

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#7)
    by kdog on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 11:04:46 AM EST
    No argument here sister. That's why I take the Groucho Marx view of organizations.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Mar 12, 2005 at 08:04:43 AM EST
    Hey Patrick, How does this happen. Given that they are innocent til proven guilty etc. But 8 separate murders. An apparent long-standing connection to the mob and they are respected and decorated NY police officers? What? Did no other police officers or investigators suspect anything? I guess Serpico is long gone.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Mar 12, 2005 at 08:08:32 AM EST
    the other image that comes to mind with these guys is the police captain in Casablanca who shuts down Rick's Cabaret, saying "I am shocked. Shocked that gambling is occurring." as the cabaret employees hand him his winnings. Ethics and hypocrisy. If you ran into these two guys in the course of their service and protection in NY there's really no telling how you might come out.

    Re: Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 22, 2005 at 02:29:29 PM EST
    How many of the NY city crime famlys still opperate?

    Former NY Cops Arrested For Mob Hits | 10 comments (10 topical)