{"id":444,"date":"2009-03-08T02:16:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2015-03-13T02:16:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T02:16:53","slug":"nypd-sued-over-turning-a-blind-eye-to-cops-working-for-luchese-crime-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"NYPD sued over turning a blind eye to cops working for Luchese crime family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dailynews.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331\" src=\"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dailynews.gif\" alt=\"dailynews\" width=\"480\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">BY Larry Mcshane <\/span><\/span><br \/>\nDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 8th 2009, 1:58 AM<\/p>\n<p>The corrupt &#8220;Mafia Cops,&#8221; jailed for life last week, left behind a costly legacy: lawsuits seeking $1.4 billion from the city on behalf of seven mob-executed victims.<\/p>\n<p>The barrage of cases &#8211; filed in Brooklyn Federal Court &#8211; accuse the city and the NYPD of turning a blind eye as rogue detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa worked for the Luchese crime family.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show there was a meeting between lawyers for the city and the seven plaintiffs last month, with additional sessions scheduled later in March.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest suit, seeking $500 million, was filed by the family of jeweler Israel Greenwald. He was kidnapped and executed on Feb. 10, 1986, with the two cops collecting a $30,000 fee.<\/p>\n<p>The saddest case may involve Nicholas Guido, gunned down in a case of mistaken identity on Christmas Day 1986. His mother, Pauline Pipitone, filed a $150 million suit.<\/p>\n<p>The cops&#8217; convictions and sentencing are a boon to the plaintiffs, one legal expert said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now there&#8217;s proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the cops did what they&#8217;re accused of doing,&#8221; lawyer Ron Kuby said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plaintiffs now have to show the city engaged in a reckless failure to supervise the mob cops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pipitone suit alleges the crooked cops &#8220;acted with the express and tacit consent, knowledge and authorization&#8221; of the NYPD and the city.<\/p>\n<p>lmcshane@nydailynews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Larry Mcshane DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, March 8th 2009, 1:58 AM The corrupt &#8220;Mafia Cops,&#8221; jailed for life last week, left behind a costly legacy: lawsuits seeking $1.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-from-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}