Friends Of The Family - Hardcover

Tom Dades

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060874260 ISBN 13: 9780060874261

Publisher: William Morrow, 2007

Synopsis

This book offers an inside look at the most notorious case to rock the NYPD. This is the story of the two NYPD cops who moonlighted as mob hit men, told by the cop and DA investigator who solved New York's coldest case, with never-before-released documents and information. On March 10, 2005, two highly decorated detectives, were indicted for providing information to the Luchese crime family, which resulted in eight murders, one of which they carried out themselves. According to the indictment, while working in the department's Organized Crime Homicide Unit, they were paid $4000 monthly by the Lucheses to provide highly confidential NYPD and FBI information into law enforcement operations and identify informers and witnesses. For more than a decade, it looked like they would get away with their crimes. When they were indicted, the story made instant headlines around the world. "Mafia Detectives" is the full inside story of two dedicated men who were determined not to let Eppolito and Caracappa get away with murder. Those two men were Mike Vecchione, the Chief of Investigations for Brooklyn D.A. Joe Hynes, and his best friend, street-wise Detective Tommy Dades. "Mafia Detectives" is the story of that investigation, as told by Vecchione, who led it and Dades, whose work broke the case, to best selling author David Fisher. It will detail both the investigation and the killings as they were uncovered.

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From the Back Cover:

Detectives Louie Eppolito and Steve Caracappa were the most corrupt and dangerous cops in American history. When they retired in the early 1990s, they left behind a pile of bodies—and for more than a decade, it looked like they were going to get away with it.

As highly decorated NYPD detectives with access to the department's most sensitive information, they sold their badges to the Mafia—and became murderers for the mob. Eventually they retired to Las Vegas, believing they had put their lives of murder and mayhem safely behind them. And they would have lived happily ever after, if not for one dedicated cop at the end of his career and an assistant district attorney. Detective Tommy Dades and Brooklyn Assistant DA Mike Vecchione turned this seemingly unsolvable cold-blooded case into one of the great law-and-order stories in the annals of New York City. And for the first time, in this book, Dades and Vecchione tell the whole inside story of the investigation.

For Detective Tommy Dades, the case began with a phone call from a distraught mother who just happened to mention an almost forgotten meeting that had taken place years earlier. Dades and Mike Vecchione had performed cold-case miracles before, but this one seemed impossible. Together, quietly and tenaciously, they began to uncover the hideous truth. A highly secret joint state and federal task force began building a body-by-body case against an incredible array of characters, from one of the most viciously insane Mafia bosses in history—who wanted to kill people he dreamed were plotting against him—to the one-eyed Jew who knew all the secrets. As the cold case got front-page-headline hot, Dades and Vecchione encountered an unexpected obstacle: the federal prosecutor plotted to take the case—and those headlines—away from Brooklyn.

For the first time, the two men who brought this incredible story to life reveal the epic confrontations that occurred behind the scenes and led to a stunning courtroom announcement—and came perilously close to destroying the case against the Mafia cops.

Friends of the Family is the complete, inside story of the historic case that rocked the world of law enforcement.

About the Author:

TOMMY DADES retired from the NYPD in 2003. He now teaches boxing on Staten Island. MIKE VECCHIONE graduated from St. John's Law School and worked as Assistant New York City District Attorney. DAVID FISHER has had a long and prolific career as a freelance writer about diverse topics.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060874260
• ISBN 13: 9780060874261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272