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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff. |
0:17.8 | Real Crime Stories. |
0:18.7 | I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year |
0:23.8 | veteran of the NYPD. Folks, we have a really unusual show tonight. Unusual because it's not |
0:29.9 | a national story, but it was a national story. And it's really an interesting story in which |
0:36.8 | numerous books have been written about this case. And it's really an interesting story in which numerous books have been written |
0:39.8 | about this case. And of course, what I refer to is two former New York City detectives by the |
0:47.2 | name of Louis Ippolito and Steve Caraccapa, known as the mob cops. And these guys were actually doing hits for the Lukaise crime family and working under the |
1:01.6 | cover of their NYPD gold detective shields, working for a man named Gaspipe Caso, |
1:10.0 | who was the underboss of the Lucchese family. |
1:12.6 | There he is. |
1:13.1 | A real savage, a real killer. |
1:17.1 | Apparently had been involved in 39 murders during his mafia career. |
1:22.7 | But Epilito and Caracapa decided to go for the short end, the short end money, allegedly being paid |
1:31.5 | $4,000 a month as a retainer, and then doing all kinds of other work for the Lucchese family. |
1:38.4 | In fact, Gaspipe Koso called them his crystal ball. |
1:43.4 | So not only were they doing criminal acts in regards to murders for the mob, |
1:48.2 | but they were also putting members of the NYPD, their own fellow cops, their brother |
1:55.9 | officers in danger by putting out secret information that was not supposed to obviously be released to anyone |
2:06.5 | only known as department secrets. |
2:10.2 | So we're going to get deep into that. |
2:12.2 | And we have with us tonight, I'll introduce our three guests tonight, but it's going to be |
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