Appeals court upholds NY ‘Mafia cops’ conviction

NEW YORK — An appeals court has upheld the murder conspiracy convictions of two former NYPD detectives who led double lives as hit men for the mob.
In an opinion issued Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found “no merit” to the appeal by “Mafia cops” Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa.
Eppolito had claimed he [...]

Mob Cops snitch, Burt Kaplan, died

This canary will sing no more.
Burton Kaplan, the star turncoat who played a key role in bringing down mob cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, died of prostate cancer earlier this month, sources told The Post.
The 75-year-old stool pigeon, whose daughter is Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Deborah Kaplan, spent the last three [...]

Mafia Cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa moved to different cells

Mafia cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were partners as detectives, partners in crime, neighbors in Las Vegas – and cellmates after being convicted as mob hit men.
Now, their illicit partnership has been broken up forever.
Caracappa, 67, who requested a prison on the East Coast, has been shipped out to Victorville [...]

New book, ‘Friends of the Family,’ on Mafia cops claims FBI hogged the glory

There’s a new Mafia turf war in Brooklyn – but this time, it’s the prosecutors who are doing battle.
Michael Vecchione, the rackets bureau chief in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, has rankled the feds by claiming in a new book that they swiped the celebrated Mafia cops case and then hogged all [...]

CHARLIE ROSE ‘WHACK JOB’

Bring me the head of Charlie Rose!
No, not the PBS talk-show host. The other one the legendary Mafia-busting prosecutor.
Unfortunately, bumbling mob cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa and the Mafia assassin they dispatched to Long Island didn’t know the difference and nearly bumped off public television’s dapper yapper.
So says “Friends of [...]

Finally, justice for victims of Mafia Cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa

Appeals court reinstates conviction of disgraced Mafia cops
On Christmas Day 1986, the Mafia Cops had an innocent man named Nicky Guido murdered.
Friday at 2 p.m., Nicky’s older brother Michael Guido, 54, will sit in Brooklyn Federal Courthouse as former NYPD Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are finally sentenced for the [...]

Mobster’s Offer to Help Recalls Lucchese Crime Family History

Ex-mob underboss Anthony Casso could reveal information about the French Connection drug case. The episode sheds light on Casso’s dark past and the history of the Lucchese crime family.
Casso Seeks Release to Leak Drug Bust Information
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso—the 66-year-old former underboss of the Lucchese mafia family who is serving multiple life [...]