{"id":1078,"date":"2015-07-30T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2015-07-30T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:07:58","slug":"nyc-to-pay-5m-to-family-of-jeweler-fatally-shot-by-mob-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"NYC to pay $5M to family of jeweler fatally shot by \u2018mob cops\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newyorkpost_oe3-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newyorkpost_oe3-1.gif\" alt=\"newyorkpost_oe3-1\" width=\"355\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-byline\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By <a class=\"selim-algar\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/selim-algar\/\">Selim Algar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline-date\">July 30, 2015 | 2:34pm<\/p>\n<p>The city has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a Queens jeweler who was shot to death by notorious \u200b\u201d\u200bMob Cops\u200b\u201d\u200b Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, according to a Wednesday Brooklyn federal court filing.<\/p>\n<p>On orders from their Mafia handlers, the dirty officers targeted Israel Greeenwald because he was suspected of cooperating with the feds.<\/p>\n<p>With their cruiser lights flashing, the dirty duo pulled Greenwald over in February 1986 and told him that he was the suspect in a hit-and-run investigation and needed to be placed in a police lineup.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of taking him to a precinct, the cops drove him to a Brooklyn garage and murdered him there before burying his body. The corpse was finally uncovered in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Caracappa and Eppolito were paid $30,000 for their murderous handiwork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing a father at a young age is tragic,\u201d the family said in a statement Wednesday following the settlement. \u201cLosing a father in this manner, where he disappeared one day into thin air never to return, where there was no grave and no closure, is nothing short of horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In their suit against the city, lawyers for the family argued that the pair should have been expelled from the force long before their murderous reign kicked off.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bEppolito and Caracappa were convicted of carrying out killings for Lucchese underboss Anthony \u201cGaspipe\u201d Casso.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe payout is the second recent seven-figure settlement footed by taxpayers to compensate victims of the two men. Pauline Pipitone, the mother of Nicholas Guido, was awarded $5 million for his shooting death on Christmas Day 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The innocent man was slain after gunmen targeted him based on bad information provided by the cops.<\/p>\n<p>Several other victims of Eppolito and Caracappa have pending civil cases against the city.<\/p>\n<p>They are both serving life terms for their crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Selim Algar July 30, 2015 | 2:34pm The city has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a Queens jeweler who was shot to death by notorious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-from-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}