{"id":1070,"date":"2015-07-30T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:26:48","slug":"new-york-settles-another-wrongful-death-lawsuit-connected-to-mafia-cop-killings-for-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"New York settles another wrongful death lawsuit connected to Mafia Cop killings for $5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"
BY JOHN MARZULLI <\/a><\/div>\n
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/div>\n
Thursday, July 30, 2015, 12:11 PM<\/div>\n

While the murderous Mafia Cops continue collecting their NYPD pensions while serving life sentences, New York City taxpayers continue footing the cost to victims of their carnage.<\/p>\n

The city has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of diamond dealer Israel Greenwald who was slain in 1986 by Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

It is the second seven-figure payout this year among the six wrongful death civil cases stemming from the traitorous detectives, who were on the payroll of then-Luchese crime family underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso for years.<\/p>\n

In January Pauline Pipitone, the mother of innocent victim Nicholas Guido, received a $5 million settlement for the killing of her son, who was gunned down on Christmas Day 1986 by hitmen acting on bad information provided by the evil detectives.<\/p>\n

With a civil trial date looming on Sept. 7 in Brooklyn Federal Court, the city has been in settlement discussions with the plaintiffs, but appears to be taking a hard line in cases in which the victim was a mobster.<\/p>\n

Mary Ann Carlton, the daughter of gangster Anthony Di Lapi who was gunned down in a Los Angeles parking garage in 1990, blasted the city’s lawyers for low-balling her in settlement talks.<\/p>\n

“The city decided that my father’s life was not as valuable as the Greenwald and Pipitone case because he was allegedly involved in organized crime,” she said.<\/p>\n

The city nixed Di Lapi’s settlement demand for $2 million, she said. \u201cI want justice for my father and I want punishment for the city and those two so-called detectives that the city protected and covered up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Carlton pointed out that the killer cops have been receiving tax-free disability pension checks \u2014 Eppolito gets more than $5,000 per month and Caracappa nearly $4,000 \u2014 despite their convictions.<\/p>\n

Federal Judge Raymond Dearie ruled last October that the case can go to trial because there is sufficient evidence that the six victims would not have been whacked had then-NYPD Commissioner Benjamin Ward booted Eppolito off the force in the mid-1980s, when he was accused of leaking confidential documents to a mobster.<\/p>\n

Despite numerous depositions of police officials involved with Eppolito’s disciplinary case at the time, no one could explain how the disgraced detective managed to keep his job.<\/p>\n

A rep for the city Law Department had no immediate comment on the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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