Friends of the Family (21 page)

In March 2009, sixty-seven-year-old Steven Caracappa (seen above in his arrest photo) was sentenced to life plus eighty years in prison and was fined $4.2 million, actually a lighter sentence than sixty-one-year-old Louis Eppolito
(below),
who received a sentence of life plus one hundred years and a $4.7 million fine.

Thomas Dades at Intelligence Division.

Jimmy Harkins, Joseph Ponzi, Thomas Dades, and Mike Galletta, promoted to First Grade.

The parents of Thomas Dades: his beloved mother, Della, and father, Pete.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.—Theodore Roosevelt

Bert Kaplan who was the liaison between the mob and the mafia cops. He testified against them in federal court.

Arrest photo of Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso, Caracapa and Eppolito’s mob boss.

Joe Ponzi, Michael Ryan, Mike Vecchione, Joe Alexis, and John Holmes–members of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

District Attorney Charles J. Hynes
(right)
and Mike.

Michael Galletta, James Harkins, and Tommy Dades on our promotion day, March 2001.

The gun that was on Eppolito’s person when he was arrested. On the butt of the gun it says “Mafia Cop Louie Eppolito.”