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Mafia Cops Conspiracy

7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 8 ratings

This is the true story of two highly-decorated NYPD detectives, Louie Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who were falsely accused of leaking confidential information to Lucchese crime boss Anthony “Gas Pipe” Casso, and acting as his hitmen. They were never indicted with actual murder charges because incredibly, the prosecution admitted there was no evidence. Instead, they were charged with RICO — the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — which allows prosecution for acts committed as part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy.This story is far more sinister and runs much deeper than the attempt to frame three honest cops (one of whom was found not guilty and the other two sentenced to life without parole), however. In setting free the FBI agent accused of being the real source of information for the mob, this incident affected the lives of every person in America, because if we pull long and hard enough on one thread of this story, it leads us all the way to 9/11.

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Episodes

Mafia Cops Conspiracy Episode 7: A deeper look at the affects of panic at the FBI

October 08, 2019 15:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB

As we discussed during Episode 6, a civil war raged among the members of the Colombo Crime Family between the heir apparent, "Little Allie Boy" Persico who was allied with Gregory Scarpa Sr and "Little Vic" Orena for the leadership. Times were changing and more and more crime families were turning to drug dealing to make ends meet. Leaders were turning informant to the FBI and even negotiating for book and television deals. By 1993, and the arrest of Vic Orena by a huge push from the FBI's C...

Mafia Cop Conspiracy Podcast - Episode 6: Who Is FBI Special Agent R. Lindsey DeVecchio?

September 16, 2019 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MB

FBI Agent R. Lindsey DeVecchio's name has come up numerous times during our discussion of the alleged conspiracy between the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice and various leaders of Organized Crime. This episode delves more deeply into Agent DeVecchio's alleged role as both a handler of high-level mobsters turned informants as well as his own possible turncoat activity which may have included not only turning over information that allowed the mob to murder numerous people but who also may h...

Mafia Cops Conspiracy Episode 5: Could the Cover-Up Have Compromised American Security

June 19, 2019 22:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MB

In researching the events of the Oklahoma City bombing for a documentary, I interviewed Timothy McVeigh's lawyer and learned about how the FBI were able to create two composite drawings of the suspects who they named John Doe Number One and John Doe Number Two. John Doe Number One was almost immediately identified as Timothy McVeigh who was subsequently stopped by a policeman for a broken tail light, arrested, convicted, tried and executed for the bombing with a Ryder Truck bomb of the Alfre...

Mafia Cops Conspiracy Episode 3: The Jury Gives A Verdict of Guilty Without Evidence

June 10, 2019 19:00 - 16 minutes - 7.38 MB

On the last day of the trial just before the prosecution was called to sum up their case, Judge Weinstein ordered that Casso be called to speak about the details of his letters.  In ordering a phone call with Casso, Judge Weinstein said that he had already determined Casso and the defendants were co-conspirators during a 20-year period. To make matters worse, neither Eppolito's nor Caracappa's attorneys were present during this call. Instead of representing their clients, they sent associa...

Mafia Cops Conspiracy Episode 2: The Trial Continues As Casso Confesses

June 10, 2019 19:00 - 19 minutes - 9.09 MB

At the end of the Mafia Cops trial, two events had simultaneously occurred: R. Lindley DeVecchio, lead agent for the FBI Colombo Family Crime Squad was accused of assisting in four murders and of allegedly being an informant for Gregory Scarpa, Sr. of the Colombo Crime Family. The prosecution did a document dump where two letters from Anthony Casso were discovered in which he confessed to the killing of at least one of the mobsters pinned on The Mafia Cops, exonerated them of the rest, and...

Mafia Cops Conspiracy Episode 4: Going Wider With The Conspiracy

June 10, 2019 18:00 - 13 minutes - 5.99 MB

One year before beginning his research on The Mafia Cops, Dan Gordon was commissioned to write a short series about the Oklahoma City bombing. He was able to interview Terry McNichols' defense attorney at length and was told that there were some unusual circumstances beyond two White Supremacists seeking revenge for the events in Ruby Ridge and Waco.   As Dan says on these podcasts, if you pull a thread on the cover up sweater you begin to unravel more important conspiracies. The cover up o...

Mafia Cops Conspiracy Episode 1: The Trial of the "Mafia Cops" Begins

June 10, 2019 18:00 - 14 minutes - 6.6 MB

 In 2006, Dan Gordon, an award-winning screenwriter and producer, was writing the screenplay to a Universal Pictures proposed film based on Lou Eppolito's book, Mafia Cop: The Story Of An Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob. When he read in the papers that Louis Eppolito and his partner, Stephen Caracappa, far from being heroes, had been arrested for supposedly selling secrets and becoming hit men for the mob, he asked Universal Studios if he could cover the RICO trial of two NYPD Detectives...