The city will pay $8.4 million to settle the last five lawsuits filed by survivors of men who were killed either by the Mafia Cops—two crooked NYPD Detectives who moonlighted for the Lucchese crime family as assassins and informants—or by others based on information provided by the officers, the Law Department announced last week.
Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are now serving life sentences in Federal prison after being convicted in 2006 of eight counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, as well as charges involving labor racketeering, extortion, narcotics, gambling and obstruction of justice.
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