AP
Last updated: 7:21 am
July 2, 2008
Posted: 4:03 am
July 2, 2008
LAS VEGAS - Accused New York "mob cop" Louis Eppolito has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing a false income-tax return.
A federal court in Nevada also ordered Eppolito to pay $102,000 in restitution.
Eppolito and another former NYPD detective, Stephen Caracappa, were accused of participating in at least eight mob-related killings while working for the Luchese crime family in the 1980s.
A Brooklyn jury found them guilty of a racketeering conspiracy responsible for multiple murders in 2006.
But the verdict was overturned on a technicality, pending appeal.
Eppolito has been in federal custody since he was arrested in Las Vegas in 2005.
