Cops once worked as hit men

[muffy]

Ex-Mob Boss: Cops Once Worked As Hit Men

Thu Apr 7, 4:55 PM ET

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NEW YORK - Years before two retired New York City detectives were arrested and accused of moonlighting as Mafia hit men while on the force, the one-time boss of the Lucchese mob told "60 Minutes" the pair had been paid $75,000 for a killing and $45,000 for a kidnapping.



CBS News had declined to air the 1998 interview with Anthony Casso because his claims could not be verified at the time. But the network decided to show the tape Sunday on "60 Minutes" after the former detectives, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, were charged with murder last month.

Eppolito and Caracappa, who became Las Vegas neighbors after retirement, are accused of killing Gambino family capo Eddie Lino and seven others while on the Lucchese payroll for more than a decade.

In the jailhouse interview, Casso said the detectives killed Lino "cowboy style" in 1990.

"They pulled alongside of him. They shot him. They made him crash into the fence alongside the Belt Parkway ... Then Steve got out of the car, ran across the street and finished shooting him," Casso said.

Lino's body, with nine gunshot wounds to the head and chest, was found inside his Mercedes. Casso said the pair were paid $75,000 for the hit.

Casso also told "60 Minutes" that he paid the two detectives $45,000 in 1986 to kidnap and deliver mobster Jimmy Hydell to him. Casso believed Hydell was involved in an assassination plot against him.

"Louie and Steve ... make believe they're going to arrest" him, Casso said. "The kid thought they were taking him to the station house, but they took him to a garage." Casso said he later pumped more than a dozen shots into Hydell.

Lawyers for both defendants denied the allegations. Casso "was born crazy, has led a life of unremitting evil and he ain't looking any better now," said Edward Hayes, attorney for Caracappa.

Casso committed three dozen murders while in the mob. He was thrown out of the federal witness protection program in 1988 after allegedly bribing prison guards and lying about other mob informants.


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[felixdgr81]

I suppose this means the NYPD doesnt check references. I wonder what thier resume said?!?

i've been thinking of a career change.
i'd be a bit corrupt though.
it would be fun to be an officer of the LAW though.
hehe.

[Lefty]

Well at least they made an honest living before turning to the dark side...