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Beneath the surface of the federal trial of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa is a cautionary tale about the entertainment age. After leaving the police force in the early 1990's, he went to act in films and write scripts in Las Vegas, where years later he was charged with his former partner, Mr. Caracappa, 64, in a federal narcotics case. He has always had a touch of the poet in him, penning "Mafia Cop," a book that describes his break with the Brooklyn gangsters in his family, and scripts like "Turn of Faith," a cop-mob-priesthood potboiler produced by the former lightweight champion Boom Boom Mancini.