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<\/a>\nDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n
Monday, May 4th 2009, 4:00 AM<\/p>\n
Mafia cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were partners as detectives, partners in crime, neighbors in Las Vegas – and cellmates after being convicted as mob hit men.<\/p>\n
Now, their illicit partnership has been broken up forever.<\/p>\n
Caracappa, 67, who requested a prison on the East Coast, has been shipped out to Victorville Penitentiary in California to serve his life-plus-80-year sentence.<\/p>\n
The high-security prison 86 miles northeast of Los Angeles was once home to notorious inmates John Walker Lindh – the so-called American Taliban – and Ingmar Guandique, suspected of killing Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy.<\/p>\n
Two prisoners have been slain there since it opened in 2004, and a bomb exploded in the prison in February.<\/p>\n
“It’s not a good place to be, but it’s better than where he was,” said Caracappa’s lawyer Daniel Nobel.<\/p>\n
Sources said the laconic Caracappa was miserable having to spend every waking moment with a loudmouth like Eppolito in the Brooklyn federal lockup in Sunset Park.<\/p>\n
Because they’re ex-cops, they were locked down 23 hours a day as a safety precaution and kept away from other inmates.<\/p>\n
“If you have two persons together in a small cell that is the size of a closet for some New Yorkers, most marriages would dissolve under those circumstances,” Nobel said of their time at the Metropolitan Detention Center.<\/p>\n
Eppolito, 60, is still awaiting word from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as to which cinder-block tomb he will be sent to die.<\/p>\n
“It was very peculiar to me that they were housed together,” said Eppolito’s lawyer Joseph Bondy. “The alternative was solitary confinement.”<\/p>\n
Eppolito and Caracappa are appealing their convictions, arguing that their trial lawyers were incompetent.<\/p>\n
In a letter to Judge Jack Weinstein, Eppolito’s daughter Andrea wrote, “The rest of my life will be dedicated to bringing him home where he belongs.”<\/p>\n
jmarzulli@nydailynews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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