{"id":395,"date":"2007-10-19T02:01:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-03-13T02:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T02:01:17","slug":"mob-cops-not-such-big-man-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Mob cop’s not such big man in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BY JOHN MARZULLI
\nDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n

Friday, October 19th 2007, 4:00 AM
\nMafia cop Louis Eppolito has shed more than 100 pounds in prison, but more importantly may soon be losing federal racketeering charges as well.<\/p>\n

“He’s thinner than when I married him. He looks real good,” wife Fran Eppolito crowed Thursday outside the U.S. Court of Appeals in lower Manhattan about her once 300-pound husband.<\/p>\n

Inside the courthouse, three judges expressed reservations about the government’s argument to reinstate the murder convictions of Eppolito and his NYPD partner Stephen Caracappa.<\/p>\n

A federal jury convicted the corrupt detectives of eight gangland murders and betraying their badge for the Luchese crime family’s former underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso.<\/p>\n

But last year, Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Jack Weinstein reversed their convictions on a legal technicality, though the two remain jailed pending the outcome of the government’s appeal.<\/p>\n

“I’m very positive,” Fran Eppolito said. “I’m going to tell him I was very pleased with our lawyer’s argument.”<\/p>\n

Added daughter Andrea: “I will be an advocate for my father till the day I die.”<\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitra Hormozi came under sharp questioning by federal appeals judges Amalya Kearse and Robert Sack about whether the five-year statute of limitations on the racketeering conspiracy had expired.<\/p>\n

Hormozi explained that the Mafia cops’ recent drug dealing and money-laundering activities in Las Vegas – where they had moved after retiring from the NYPD – was a continuation of their earlier criminal enterprise.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see the relationship of what getting designer drugs to impress a client has to do with the dreadful things they were doing in the ’80s,” Sack said.<\/p>\n

Eppolito will remain on what his wife calls the “incarceration diet” as he awaits a ruling.<\/p>\n

If the reversal is upheld, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is expected to bring state murder charges against the dirty duo. His top investigator, Joseph Ponzi, attended yesterday’s hearing.<\/p>\n

Leah Greenwald, whose husband, Israel, was kidnapped and slain by the Mafia cops, also came to the hearing.<\/p>\n

“I will not stop until they are convicted because they are murderers,” she said.<\/p>\n

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