Louis J. Eppolito
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Louis J. Eppolito Eppolito
The federal trial of Louis J. Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa veered from Brooklyn murder and Las Vegas lunacy to the poker game played by the authorities. The witness, Burton Kaplan, an aging marijuana dealer, testified that after his arrest in 1996 on drug and tax evasion charges, against Mr. Eppolito, 57, and Mr. Caracappa, 64. The two men are accused of working under Mr. Kaplan's direction while they were detectives to commit at least eight murders, seven of them for Anthony Casso, the No. 2 man in the Luchese crime family.