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- Author(s): McGrath, Ben
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New Yorker; 5/1/2006, Vol. 82 Issue 11, p54-65, 12p, 1 Color Photograph
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The article focuses on United States v. Caracappa and Eppolito, in which two decorated former New York City detectives were charged with moonlighting as Luchese-family hit men, and whose star witness was a sickly old dope dealer named Burton Kaplan. Kaplan has spent several years in federal custody, where he suffered his second minor stroke, among arthritis and prostate cancer. But this did not stop him from testifying about his years of service, in the 1980s and 1990s, as the middleman between a Mobbed-up killer named Anthony Gaspipe Casso and the two policemen, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who Kaplan said helped Casso rub out suspected rats. The charges brought against the cops, under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, included eight murders and a variety of obstruction-of-justice, money-laundering, and drug-related conspiracy counts.
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