Their motive? They hated him for who his family was. And after all he'd done Eppolito believed the good guys actually had less honor than the crooks whose life he'd renounced.
14 years after the release of Mafia Cop, the title took on a new meaning when Eppolito and his one-time police partner Stephen Caracappa were convicted on a slew of charges for providing information to, and participating in murders for, mobster Anthony Casso. To say it put the book in a different light would be an understatement.
Until recently I've held Mafia Cop in the same headspace I have for Manos: The Hands of Fate; I know it's trash. I know everyone else interested in the subject knows it's trash. But I've had no wish to view it without the filter of someone else's commentary - in this case William Oldham and Guy Lawson's The Brotherhoods. Recently, however, a potential project came to mind and I decided to look though it in hopes of getting a little more background info.
