The Mafia Cops – Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews true crime author Jeffrey Sussman about the “Mob Cops” Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, one of the many stories in his new book Big Apple Gangsters (Boxing and the Mob, Holocaust Fighters, Sin City Gangsters, Rocky Graziano: Fists Fame and Fortune) about one story from his new book Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York. This book was just released in paperback. Gary chose to discuss the Mafia cops with Jeffrey from this book’s many New York City mob stories. Louis Eppolito was actually a mafia legacy and came from a long line of Eppolitos who were made men. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, welcome all you are tavers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
0:03.7	I have my friend and a regular contributor, almost, Jeffrey Sesson.
0:09.2	Welcome, Jeffrey.
0:10.8	Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you, Gary.
0:13.1	All right. We've done several shows together with boxing in the mob and about boxing in general.
0:19.2	What else have we done? We've done several other shows. We did that.
0:23.1	What we're going to talk about today, folks, is he's got a book coming out in paperback,
0:28.1	just about the time this is released, Big Apple Gangsters, the Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York.
0:35.5	And when we talked about this book before in Hardback, we talked about Scarpa, Gregory Scarpa.
0:40.8	And so there's a lot of different stories in there.
0:44.0	And what other books do you have?
0:45.9	Oh, we've got one coming up that he quotes me in, guys.
0:49.5	Let me think and look at that title.
0:53.0	Sin City Gangsters, right?
0:55.3	Yes, the rise and decline of the mob in Las Vegas.
0:58.7	Cool.
0:59.1	Of course, you guys know I know a little bit about the mob in Las Vegas and be quoted in that.
1:04.5	We'll do a show on that when it comes out, right, Jeffrey?
1:07.2	Yeah, and not only were you quoted in it, but your book, Leaving Las Vegas, was a great
1:13.3	resource for me. Well, good. Well, good. Today, we're going to talk about as a kind of a
1:18.7	celebration of the release of the paperback version of Big Apple Gangsters. We're going to talk about
1:24.7	the mob cops in New York City. I've never done a story on the
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