Wednesday - March 15, 2006

Wise Guys

Today’s Special Crime Moment is brought to you by The Sopranos, Serpico and Daffy Duck. The bad guys this time are ... cops. And not too bright cops, it seems. It all takes place in New York (where else?), where the mob is still in business and dirty cops can still be found. Every time I read one of these stories, I’m reminded of a classic exchange between Rick and the German Major Strasser in ”Casablanca” ....

SHOCKING PIX OF ‘WRONG’ HIT
_{March 14, 2006}

(NEW YORK POST)

Chilling photos of one of the worst botched mob hits in history surfaced for the first time yesterday as the explosive trial of two alleged cops-turned-Mafia-hit men kicked off in Brooklyn federal court.

The most shocking never-seen-before photo featured the bullet-riddled body of tragic phone-company worker Nicholas Guido, 26, slumped over the wheel of his new, red Nissan Maxima in his family’s driveway in Brooklyn on Christmas Day, 1986.

Prosecutors say dirty Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa thought they were giving Luchese crime-family boss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso the address of the Nicholas Guido who had tried to assassinate Casso. But the cops gave Casso’s hit men the wrong address, that of an innocent Nicholas Guido, who was three years younger than the intended target, the feds said.

Prosecutors revealed the eerie photos as they tried to paint Eppolito and Caracappa as cold-blooded cops who morphed into Mafia hit men for the moolah, using their gold badges to lure squealers to their deaths for ruthless mob bosses. The cops’ payoff? Up to $65,000 a hit, the feds said.  In one of the most outrageous cases of police corruption in history, Casso repeatedly used the cops as his personal “crystal ball” to help track down informants and then murder them, the feds said.

The highly decorated veteran cops were “not traditional mobsters. They were better. They were two men who could get away with murder,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitra Hormozi told rapt jurors. “Why? Because they were New York City police detectives.

“The defendants went into business together, and the business was crime. Even worse, the defendants committed many of these crimes while sworn to protect the very people they preyed upon.” But the defendants’ lawyers scoffed that the feds’ main witnesses were a bunch of cowardly, killer canaries who only rolled over to the feds after being tossed in the pen for their own crimes.

“They called each other tough guys, goodfellas - until the jail door shut,” flamboyant mob lawyer Bruce Cutler sniped of the turncoats. “Then they wet their pants and called Mommy - the government.”

- Read the rest or get whacked ...

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