{"id":549,"date":"2015-03-13T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/?page_id=549"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:22:58","slug":"the-case","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?page_id=549","title":{"rendered":"The Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took almost exactly four years to complete the criminal case against former New York police detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 8, 2005:<\/strong> Eppolito and Caracappa are arrested in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 9, 2005:<\/strong> A 27-page racketeering indictment in federal court in Brooklyn accuses them of committing murder for the mob while they were cops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aug. 3, 2005:<\/strong> A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicts Eppolito and Caracappa in the 1986 killing of jewelry merchant Israel Greenwald. They would be charged with another murder a month later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 23, 2005:<\/strong> Federal prosecutors release a retooled indictment \u2013 their fourth version \u2013 adding two murder-for-hire allegations and a 1982 bribery allegation against Eppolito.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 6, 2006:<\/strong> A Brooklyn federal jury convicts Eppolito and Caracappa on all counts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 5, 2006:<\/strong> The two former NYPD detectives are sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 30, 2006:<\/strong> Judge Jack B. Weinstein throws out the convictions, ruling there was insufficient evidence that Caracappa and Eppolito were involved in racketeering conspiracy within five years of the indictment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 17, 2008:<\/strong> A federal appeals court reinstates the convictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 6, 2009:<\/strong>\u00a0Eppolito and Caracappa are again sentenced to life behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took almost exactly four years to complete the criminal case against former New York police detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito. March 8, 2005: Eppolito and Caracappa are arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-549","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}