Two men have been sentenced to bounce in c bridewell after being convicted of eight murders as well as other crimes while they were New York policemen. Stephen Carapacca, 67, and Louis Eppolito, 61, had 44 years' constabulary occurrence between them. But they were also surreptitiously on the payroll of Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the second-in-command of New York's Lucchese mafia family, a court found. They were convicted in 2006, but judiciary twists and turns delayed sentencing.
Eppolito was given passion in jug asset 100 years and a $4.7m comminuted (£3.3m), while Carapacca got a story stretch with 80 years, with a $4.2m fine. They have no plausibility of original release, Judge Jack Weinstein told a federal court in Brooklyn.
Police credentials The two men were convicted in 2006 of eight murders, attempted murder, blackmail, anaesthetize trafficking, paper money laundering, and quick dope to the Lucchese family, one of New York's most naughty mafia families. One move they employed was to use their monitor credentials to dangle down cars so that they could then bump the driver. But their convictions were initially thrown out in 2006, after a pass sentence ruled that the statute of limitations had expired on the murders.
Last year, an appeals court reversed that decision, reinstating the convictions and paving the behaviour pattern for the sentencing. "The sentences imposed today escort some estimate of closure for the families of the victims of these defendants' unspeakable crimes and for the citizens of the city, whose make these men betrayed," US Attorney Benton Campbell said after sentencing. "We are gratified that the defendants will go through the support of their lives behind bars." Both men persist in to contradict involvement in any crime.
Mr Eppolito - who had a pint-sized job in the 1990 gangland smokescreen Goodfellas - told Judge Weinstein: "I was a hard-working cop. I never wretched anybody. I never kidnapped anybody… I never did any of this.".
