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Today Burton Kaplan is expected to lay out a richer version of his ties to Louis J. Eppolito, 57, and Stephen Caracappa, 64, whom he said he met after becoming acquainted with Mr. Eppolito's cousin Frank Santora Jr. in the Allenwood Prison Camp in Pennsylvania in 1982. Moments later, he said that Mr. Santora, who was killed in front of a Bensonhurst dry cleaner in 1987, had offered to murder if Mr. Kaplan had serious problems in the street. Mr. Kaplan, who is 72 and suffers from arthritis, poor circulation and high blood pressure, does not look like an ordinary criminal. It was then that he gave them and Mr. Santora a $30,000 contract to kill a Long Island jeweler named Israel Greenwald, whose body was found last year under a Brooklyn parking garage, still in the pinstriped suit that Mr. Greenwald had worn to work almost 20 years before. Mr. Kaplan is expected to lay out a richer version of his ties to Mr. Eppolito, who is 57, and Mr. Caracappa, aged 64, whom he said he met after becoming familiar with Mr. Eppolito's cousin Frank Santora Jr. in the Allenwood Prison Camp in Pennsylvania. He said that Frankie approached him and he said that his cousin was a detective and, if he wanted, his cousin could get him information and could help him if he had problems. After some moment, he said that Mr. Santora, who was killed in front of a Bensonhurst dry cleaner, had offered to murder Mr. Kaplan if he had serious problems in the street. Mr. Kaplan, who is 72 and suffers from arthritis, poor circulation and high blood pressure, does not look like an ordinary criminal.