Warners nabs ‘Brotherhoods’ for Dan Lin

7th May 2012 Comments Off on Warners nabs ‘Brotherhoods’ for Dan Lin

Cops and mobsters drama based true-crime tome By DAVE MCNARY, RACHEL ABRAMS May. 7, 2012, Warner Bros. has acquired feature rights to “The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered […]

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2 ex-NYPD detectives who worked as mob hitmen trying to have life sentences appealed

19th Jan 2012 Comments Off on 2 ex-NYPD detectives who worked as mob hitmen trying to have life sentences appealed

By MITCHEL MADDUX January 19, 2012 Two former NYPD detectives who doubled as hitmen for the mob are again waging a fight to appeal convictions that condemned them to life […]

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Ex-NYPD honcho won’t discuss ruling on Mafia Cop Louis Eppolito

14th Oct 2011 Comments Off on Ex-NYPD honcho won’t discuss ruling on Mafia Cop Louis Eppolito

BY John Marzulli DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, October 14th 2011, 4:00 AM A former top NYPD official is refusing to spill all he knows about how Mafia Cop Louis […]

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A Visit

A Visit

11th Feb 2011 Comments Off on A Visit

I flew to Israel for my dads 25th anniversary since his death. It is still hard for me to grasp how it has been 25 years. While it feels like […]

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City to Pay $9.9 Million Over Man’s Imprisonment

3rd Jun 2010 Comments Off on City to Pay $9.9 Million Over Man’s Imprisonment

June 3, 2010 By A. G. SULZBERGER New York City agreed on Thursday to pay $9.9 million, the largest personal settlement in its history, to a man who served almost […]

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Record settlement for NY man framed by ‘Mafia cop’

3rd Jun 2010 Comments Off on Record settlement for NY man framed by ‘Mafia cop’

By TOM HAYS/None www.victoriaadvocate.com Originally published June 3, 2010 at 3:56 p.m., updated June 3, 2010 at 4:59 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) – The city on Thursday agreed to pay […]

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Mob cops’fine whine

19th May 2010 Comments Off on Mob cops’fine whine

By DOUGLAS MONTERO and DAN MANGAN May 19, 2010 Imprisoned mob cop Louis Eppolito’s new attorney griped to federal appeals judges yesterday that the ex-NYPD detective wasn’t allowed to testify […]

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Breslin on Death of Mob Canary: You Sure He’s Dead?

22nd Jul 2009 Comments Off on Breslin on Death of Mob Canary: You Sure He’s Dead?

By Tom Robbin, Jul. 22 2009 The News and the Post are both reporting the death of Burt Kaplan, the turncoat mob associate whose testimony convicted the two worst New […]

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Gangster who ratted out ‘Mafia Cops’ dies

22nd Jul 2009 Comments Off on Gangster who ratted out ‘Mafia Cops’ dies

BY GREG B. SMITH AND JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Wednesday, July 22nd 2009, 4:00 AM Burton Kaplan, the bespectacled Jewish gangster from Brooklyn whose turncoat testimony was pivotal […]

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‘The Good Rat’: Bad cops, good crook, great story

13th Jun 2009 Comments Off on ‘The Good Rat’: Bad cops, good crook, great story

By Anthony DeBarros, USA TODAY Unlike The Sopranos or The Godfather, the bodies that pile up in Jimmy Breslin’s new Mafia tale are far too cold to fit some romantic […]

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