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Mafia Cops Will Still Collect Pensions

2009_03_mobcopshl.jpg While the two former cops convicted of carrying out murders for the mafia were sentenced to life in prison yesterday, the two men will continue to receive thousands of dollars each month in pensions. Since Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito were charged with their crimes after retiring in the early '90s, their families will continue to receive the pensions, which cannot even be seized and used towards the millions in fines they have to pay as part of their sentence. Yael Perlman, the daughter of a gem dealer killed by the pair, said yesterday, "That's sick." Attempts to overturn the statutes that are paying out pensions to 450 corrupt officials have gone nowhere. Last year City Councilman David Yassky said, "It's a world that rewards people who lie, cheat, steal, take bribes, betray the public trust and embezzle public funds."

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  • NannyState

    "Dat pension money belongs ta me! Dey can't take dat away from me. Dey can take my freedom but da wife's gotta keep playin' da numbers. She gets upset, ya know, if she can't play da numbers, dere's no telling what she'll do."

  • ides_of_march

    Considering he just put a tax cheat in charge of the Treasury, I wouldn't be surprized if Obama pardoned these thugs and gave them a job in his administration. "Listen guys, there are some people causing me problems that I want you to pay a visit; Santelli, Cramer, Limbaugh. If anybody asks, I put you in charge of their "health care."

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