Dirtnap for a Corrupt Mafia Cop

This week saw the demise of a man who, in my opinion, is worse than any other mobster I have written about on this blog.  John Gotti, Nicky Scarfo and Gaspipe Casso were all bad guys, no question.  Those men were mafioso and lived their lives accordingly: criminals who would lie, steal, cheat and murder according to the code they lived their lives by.  

Stephen Caracappa, on the other hand, was an NYPD detective who sold his badge to the Lucchese crime family. Why Stephan and his partner in crime fellow detective Louis Eppolito did not receive the death penalty is beyond me.  These two rogue detectives were sworn to uphold the law and they were responsible for good of the public.  Instead, they betrayed everyone in uniform as well as every citizen of this country.  They cost the taxpayers 18.4 million dollars in lawsuit settlements alone, and that is not where the damage they dealt ended. They murdered, or had a hand in the murders of, at least seven people, including one completely innocent man.

On April 8, 2017 Stephen Caracappa died of cancer.  He died in Butner, FCI where they house sick criminals like Carmine Persico and others.  

Caracappa not only sold information to Gaspipe Casso and the Luchese family, he committed murder for him. In 1990 he and his partner pulled over Gambino Edward Lino on the Belt Parkway and they shot him.  They dropped off another man they kidnapped so that he could be tortured.

They also sold bad information to Gaspipe that resulted in the Christmas day murder of Nicholas Guido, an innocent man who was just showing off his new car.

Guido happened to have the same name as one of the men who shot at Gaspipe Casso when they tried to murder him.  The Guido they were seeking had fled the state in fear of being found.  

Diamond dealer Israel Greenwald got into trouble with the mafia in 1985 when he traveled to Great Britain to help a friend purchase some treasury bills.  He thought the deal was an honest one.  When he returned, the FBI questioned him about his business.  Burton Kaplan, a drug dealer connected with Gaspipe Casso, hired Caracappa and Eppolito to find him and murder him so he could not talk to the FBI.

The two law enforcement officers used police databases to find out Greenwald's address and the kind of car he drove.  They pulled over his car, flashed their badges and told them they were taking him in for a hit and run.  They took him to a Brooklyn warehouse where they murdered and buried him.  Greenwald was not found for twenty years and his family had been left to wonder what became of him.

Greenwald's family lost everything because they could not prove he died.  The last they saw him when he left for work.  Caracappa had appealed his case and just recently asked a judge to grant him release because he was dying of cancer.   The judge rightly told him there was nothing he could do for him.

Online Escorts and the Gambinos

There is a lot going on lately on the street.  The locals and the Feds are hammering the families again, and I am sure it will not be long until they come down with a massive bust.  The families had been catching a breather all over because everyone was focused on terrorists.

It is my opinion that anyone who is or was in law enforcement and commits crimes should be locked up for much longer than any other criminal.

Michael “Bruce” Rizzi is one of those stellar people I will write about today.

Rizzi was a 9 year veteran NYPD officer who retired on a disability pension. You know what that means? Tax free money aka our money, that we have paid in taxes to the government.

In 2009 Rizzi was indicted with 29 other people in a massive bookmaking ring.  The ring took in 567 million dollars in bets in a 28 month period while they were being watched.  Gambling is the staple of organized crime because the amount of cash it brings into the organization is astronomical.  The penalties are not as bad as other crimes.  Rizzi had around 400 bettors and he was charged along with the others but he ended up pleading out to a misdemeanor.

Rizzi just happens to be married to Jill Giuliano who has a father who is a Gambino soldier and an uncle Sonny Giuliano who is a capo.  

Sonny had a large shylock operation back in the early 2000’s and he had some interst in stripbars.

Rizzi must have learned his lesson and got out of bookmaking; or he just found a more lucrative addiction to exploit.  This time Rizzi had taken over an escort business which he ran out of Travis, Staten Island. BJM consultants is the company that he used to control up to 58 websites where he advertised his escorts.  The escorts charged between 400-2000 an hour for their services. BJM took in more than 2 million in credit card charges in 5 months this year.

They may never know how much more in cash the escorts brought into the business.

Rizzi used the name Bruce in email correspondence with prospective escorts. The websites had forms for escorts to fill out if they wanted to work for BJM.

He claimed he had been in the business for over 10 years and never had a problem.  He told escorts that he had the wealthiest clients in New York and his escorts made the most money.

He was out on a 500k bail for a minute and then he was arrested for a gun found at his home when they searched it.  If Law Enforcement follows the cash, it will be interesting to see where it ends up.

I would like to know who he kicked up cash too.  

Rizzi’s lawyer is already claiming he was running a legitimate business that provided companionship and not sex.  No matter what he claims, it is a sad business.  They exploit the girls and the clients.  

Gambinos: Still Making Book.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office just spent 17 months, and I'm sure millions of hard earned taxpayer dollars, to take down a bookmaking operation.

The operation was run in New Jersey by Patrick Deluise, a bookmaker, Illegal fireworks seller and a shylock debtor.

The Brooklyn D.A. may have some problems of its own now. Detective Investigator Nicole Byrd, who was in charge of the 24 hour command center for the investigation, was fired for falsifying records so she could get overtime pay when she was not even on the job.

Four other investigators are being looked at by law enforcement for possible padded hours on the job.

Now it may have really blown up in their faces, because Patrick Deluise shot himself after he was approached to flip on his co-conspirators.

I understand that they were trying to shut down a mafia run book making operation.  We know they will use the cash to fund other operations.  The government now picks and chooses which crimes to go after.  Betting on football, basketball and baseball is a joke.  Everyone bets and that is why they have so many viewers on Superbowl Sunday.

They cannot stop the million plus illegal immigrants pouring across our southern border, but they pour tax money into shutting down a bookie in New Jersey?

Tons of heroin is coming across the border but they can’t bother to secure our border.  Something is wrong here.

Patrick Deluise is considered a “victim” because “he borrowed cash from a shylock.”

He borrowed $50,000 to pay for an experimental cancer treatment in Germany for his wife.  He agreed to the terms and took the cash.  He was not forced to take a loan.  

Most people could not borrow from a shylock and would just lose their homes, cars etc., paying for medical care.

He borrowed the cash from Anthony Vallario at a rate of $2,400 a month interest.  He had paid $129,600 interest on it.  He knew what it would cost when he took the cash and he knew it was an interest loan, not a knockdown loan, which means he had to pay back the $50,000 all at once.  

So the DA will charge Anthony Vallario with Loan Sharking, a guy who ran a 10 million dollar online bookmaking business.  Patrick used wagersport.com and other sites for his customers in Brooklyn.  They would bet online or call in and his guys would pay in Bay Ridge Brooklyn.  Patrick involved his two sons in his operation.  

Anthony Vallario is a big fish for the Brooklyn DA because his brother Louis Vallario is a capo in the Gambino family.

Still, one has to wonder is the time and money worth taking down a bookmaker who will be replaced before I'm done writing this blog?