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The "Mob Cops" Case
In 2005, agents from the DEA and FBI raided an Italian restaurant just off the Las Vegas Strip. They arrested two middle-aged men on evidence of a drug deal gathered by a wired up witness. While one suspect was carrying a handgun in his waistband, both men were taken in peacefully.
The indictment against the two men unsealed afterward, however, would shake the confidence of New Yorkers and disgrace the nation’s largest police force. It centered on an accusation so sensational that 60 Minutes kept it off the air for 8 years: Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa of the NYPD’s Organized Crime Homicide Unit were, in fact, hit men for the mafia. They would go on to be dubbed “the Mob Cops.”
The Witnesses
The first witness to describe two rogue NYPD detectives working for the mafia emerged as early as 1994. He was the mobster who took credit for purchasing their services: imprisoned Lucchese underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso. Captured in
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Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. He interviews former Brooklyn prosecutor Michael Vecchione, who helped uncover the Mafia Cops Louis Eppolito and Steve Caracappa. Michael Vecchione tells how he worked with NYPD Det. Tommy Dades to expose these traitors to law enforcement. They learned how Eppolito and Caracoppa worked beneath the direction of Lucchese’s Underboss, Anthony Gaspipe Casso. Michael Vecchione tells how a mother saw Eppolito on TV promoting his mafia book and remembered he was a cop looking for her son, Jimmy Hydell, just before someone murdered him. Starting with this clue Vecchione and Dades gathered all the upplysning they could find on these two cops and exposed their life-long pattern of committing crimes for the Mafia.
Eppolito’s Mob connections were deep. His father, Ralph “Fat the Gangster”
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Kaplan listened attentively, but it was difficult for either of the men to read his mood. Was he weighing their offer? Or was he simply playing them, glad to fill his empty days with a diversion?
The answer came shortly after New Year’s Day of 2004. Kaplan’s lawyers notified the U.S. Attorney’s Office that their client wanted to negotiate a deal.
When Ponzi announced the news, the men in the war room broke out in a cheer.
For the next three months, Intartaglio met several times a week with the old man. With a squad of federal marshals stationed outside, they sequestered themselves behind closed doors, not too far from the Brooklyn prison where Kaplan returned each night. The talk, fueled by food and drink, flowed freely. With Kaplan as his guide, Intartaglio went back over the gangland wars he had lived through in a previous life. Missing pieces were filled in and mysteries explained. Yet of all the ancient episodes that these rambling sessions brought back to life, two shootings