The widow of Israel Greenwald a diamond dealer who’s body was dug up in a Brooklyn garage this past April 1st, 19 years after the murder by the mob, filed a $100 million notice of claim against the city and the NYPD.
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She is blaming the NYPD’s failures for the “gross negligence, recklessness, carelessness and wrongful criminal conduct” of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who were still cops at the time of her husband’s 1986 murder, after this two former detectives allegedly leaked sensitive information yo the mob.
Acually his widiw was freed from her agunah many years ago only she never chose to marry i think beacuse she never really had any closure about her husband, not untill a few month ago when his remains were discoverd in a garage in brooklyn,
Now his wife and daughters were able to give him a jewish buriel and they send him to his finel rest in israel.
the triel for the 2 mob cops who killed Israel is on now and lets hope that they will rot in jail for the rest of thier lives
Fleshing out his tale of gangland murder and corruption, an aging marijuana dealer told jurors at the trial of Louis J. Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa today that in 1986, the two New York detectives murdered a crooked jeweler in a parking garage and then, years later, laughed about the killing at a secret meeting in a Staten Island cemetery.
It was the second day of testimony by the dealer, Burton Kaplan, in the trial of the two detectives, who are accused of taking part in at least eight murders for Brooklyn’s Luchese crime family.
Mr. Kaplan, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence, spun a mesmerizing yarn today about the shooting of Israel Greenwald, a jeweler who had made the grave mistake of crossing him in a scheme to selling stolen Treasury bills.
The marijuana dealer, 72 and ailing, spoke in gravelly, measured tones, saying that he had given the murder contract to Mr. Eppolito’s cousin Frank Santora Jr. and that the cousin had then recruited the detective and his partner to stop Mr. Greenwald on the highway, tell him he was wanted in a hit-and-run accident and then assassinate him in cold blood.
“The guy was driving his car,” Mr. Kaplan said Mr. Santora had informed him once the contract had been filled. “They put on the flashing lights and pulled him over and told him he was wanted in a hit-and-run and they wanted him to be in a lineup.
“They took him, according to Frank, to an automobile repair place, a collision place, that was a friend of theirs.”
It was there, prosecutors say, that the three men bound Mr. Greenwald’s hands, shoved a plastic bag on his head, secured it with his own scarf, then shot him twice in the head.
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well let me tell you something I happen to know his widow very well
acually she wasnt an agunah after a few years she was given permition to remarry but never did since she never really had any closure to what happened to her husband untill now 19 years later.
baruch hashem her husbands remains were found , and it was bitter sweet yet at least she and her daughters were able to give him a jewish buriel and send him to rest in peice in israel
now the 2 mob cops are on triel for his murder and lets hope that they will get what they deserve. to rot in jail for the rest of thier lives. .
that isnt nice to say on our Rabunim
Her suffering over these past 19 years was also caused by the chickenhearted rabbonim who allowed her to remain an agunah.
Good for her! How horrifying that these cops killed using there badge. Hope she gets compensated for all her suffering over the past 19 years.