Two former New York police detectives convicted of moonlighting as contract killers in eight mob hits were sentenced Friday to life in prison after telling a judge they were innocent. "I was a hard-working cop," Louis Eppolito told U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein in ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a jury verdict against two former police detectives who were convicted of moonlighting as gangsters and carrying out a series of hits for the mob. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa ...