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So it is even strange that Smith presents him as a sympathetic anti hero figure who gradually came to the decision to atone for his crimes by cooperating with the government Smith also acknowledges two DEA agents for their contribution This is rather strange given the rather brief mention of both agents in the book and the very vague Las Vegas conspiracy to distribute charges against them Smith would have helped his book by explaining the need for prosecutors to build a narcotics case against them in order to bring them to trial for murder The result is that the book presents a story in which federal agents in New York and Nevada coordinate to the extent that an informant wines and dines the ex cops for four months and then begins asking them to supply him with ecstasy At first the ex cops are evasive and gradually direct the informant to a friend of Eppolito s son That is the nutshell of the drug conspiracy charge Somehow that conspiracy charge allowed prosecutors in New York to charge them with murder If that sounds odd.

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The stories Smith outlines in the book are largely circumstantial Kaplan s testimony was damning but there was not much corroboration in connection with 8 murders Witnesses with knowledge of only small bits of the larger arc could offer only little support This is goes back to Smith s reliance on Caracappa s defense attorney for the big story Smith s writing is crisp and he tells a marvelous tale Even the minute detail of the DEA informant buttering up the ex cops for drug conspiracy and equally vague money laundering charges was interesting as it gave insight into the personal lives of the defendants.

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Greg B Smith reporter for New York s Daily News covers the federal courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan that serve as Ground Zero in the battle to end mafia influence in America An investigative reporter for nearly twenty years Smith has written for The Boston Globe The San Francisco Examiner The Seattle Post Intelligencer and other newspapers around the country He s also a frequent guest on TV and radio discussing everything from racketeering to the Latin Kings street gang to world terrorist organizations Mr Smith lives with his wife and two boys in Brooklyn New York Penguin Books Mob Cops The Shocking Rise and Fall of New Yorks Mafia CopsVery good book. Mob Cops nonfiction best A must read for mafia fans Nonfiction Crime Is good Nonfiction Crime This is the convoluted story of how two New Yorkers who wanted to be mobsters took a career path in the NYPD and found ways they could act out their Mafia fantasies Smith s presentation is at times confusing and he ends the book before the Mafia Cops Story ends so there is a cliff hanger Smith is not too clear as to his sources The result is that parts of the book appear to be biased and unbalanced. Book Mob copse Lou Eppolito was the son of a mafioso Nevertheless he pursued a career as a police officer He was highly decorated and wrote a self glorifying book Steven Caracappa was not nearly as gregarious In fact they appear to have been very much opposites in appearance The quiet Caracappa made his way through the NYPD ranks to be join the NYPD Organized Crime Homicide Squad Together they did little favors to mobsters and their families Gradually these favors grew in seriousness to include kidnapping and murder Their main contacts in organized crime were jailed in the early 1990s They retired in the late 1990s They moved to Las Vegas Federal prosecutors began building a case against them in the early 2000s by using informants and questionable tactics to support a murder case against them Convicted on murder charges a judge threw out the conviction on a technicality but held them in prison pending the strange charges in Nevada Smith ends the story at this point. Mob Cops nonfiction best This is where the issue of Smith s sources comes into play His acknowledgements thank one of the defense attorneys and the family of one of the murder victims The result of such sources would be two highly biased accounts with little overlapping stories However he obviously uses other sources as the book appears to be based on the experiences of Burt Kaplan the chief government witness against the mob cops Kaplan is not listed in the acknowledgements Smith needed to elaborate especially if two of his sources were the Nevada DEA agents who arrested the ex cops Smith avoids the legal details altogether Presumably there was plenty of evidence connecting the mob cops to the murders The basis for that evidence according to Smith is the approximately ten year gap in cooperation between Anthony Casso and Burt Kaplan Authorities determined that Casso was an unreliable witness so he could not be used at trial Kaplan was a reliable witness However which was very much the opposite of the rest of the book Even though I realize that the book is heavily biased and intentionally presents a weak case against the mob cops I feel angry at how the federal government railroaded their convictions I want to know Due to the bias in the book I do not recommend it In my opinion Smith is comfortable with the thought that Eppolito and Caracappa did all of those terrible crimes for years and years but ultimately they were treated unfairly by the justice system It is as if he realizes his own weakness in the book The story is fascinating and draws the reader in But without the detail to provide balance the book is really the story from the perspective of a defense attorney Nonfiction Crime Very detailed Well written and he had access to all the informer recordings Covered all the major homicides and everything that was important The only reason I didn t give it a 5 star was because he does jump back or forth in years a lot Nonfiction Crime