The Top 5 Most Corrupt U.S. Police Officers Of All-Time

September 29, 2011

Police corruption is a major problem in the United States. Some police officers turn bad to make money through ripping off drug dealers and even dealing drugs themselves. Some try and cover up their own acts of brutality, murder and even torture. Police corruption happens in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and every major U.S. city and is conducted by officers of all races, creeds and colors. Here is our list of the top 5 most corrupt U.S. police officers of all-time.

- Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa -

5. Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa worked for the NYPD but in reality, they worked for the mafia. Caracappa was a member of the Organized Crime Homicide Unit investigating the very people he was working for. The two former partners were taking orders for the Lucchese crime family and served as hitmen as well as moles in the NYPD. In 2006,  Eppolito and Caracappa were convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice, extortion and eight counts of murder and conspiracy.

- Joseph Miedzianowski -

4.  Joseph Miedzianowski Joseph Miedzianowski was a Chicago police officer labeled as the most corrupt cop. Miedzianowski served as both police officer and drug kingpin using his knowledge of the streets and gangs to shake down drug dealers. For most of his 22-year career, Miedzianowski would run the Chicago Gangs Unit, while running his own drug gang at the same time. Miedzianowski would be convicted of 10 counts including drug conspiracy and racketeering in 2001.

- David Mack And Rafael Perez -

3. David Mack And Rafael Perez David Mack and Rafael Perez worked together for the LAPD Rampart division, but also worked for Death Row Records and were members of the Bloods gang. Mack would receive the LAPD Medal Of Honor for killing a drug dealer who allegedly pulled a gun on him. But he would also later be  convicted of robbing a bank and be implicated in the murder of rapper, Notorious BIG. Perez shot and framed an unarmed gang member during his tenure, and stole eight pounds of cocaine from an LAPD evidence locker.

- Jon Burge -

2. Jon Burge Jon Burge is a former Chicago Police Department detective who oversaw the torture of hundreds of Black men resulting in false confessions between 1972 and 1991. Burge would burn suspects with radiators and cigarettes, and electrocute their testicles. Although Burge was protected by the statute of limitations for his crimes, he was convicted for lying about the torture in January of this year.

- Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, and Anthony Villavaso -

1. Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, and Anthony Villavaso Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, and Anthony Villavaso were members of the New Orleans police department during Hurricane Katrina. They were charged with first degree murder for killing seventeen-year-old James Brissette who was innocent and unarmed during Hurricane Katrina on the Danzinger bridge. Brisette was simply looking for shelter in the Hurricane and cops pounced on him. Bowen, Gisevius, Faulcon, Villavaso were found guilty of falsifying reports and false prosecution in the conspiracy to cover-up the shooting and may face the death penalty.

Source: newsone.com

Tony Spilotro Chicago Perp Walk

Operation Family Secrets

Operation Family Secrets was an FBI investigation of mob related crimes in Chicago. According to the FBI it was one of the most successful investigations of organized crime done by the FBI ever.^[1] The investigation and trial was accurately dubbed "Family Secrets" because of the betrayal within the Calabrese family. The son, Frank Calabrese, Jr., and brother, Nick Calabrese, of a Chicago Outfit mob hit man, Frank Calabrese, Sr. provided testimony that was instrumental to the success of Operation Family Secrets. The investigation led to indictments of 14 defendants affiliated with the Chicago Outfit, which has been one of the most prolific organized crime enterprises in the United States.^[2] The most heinous of their crimes investigated were the 18 murders and one attempted murder that took place over the span between the years 1970 and 1986. All of the murders and other crimes being charged to the defendants were allegedly committed to further the Outfit's illegal activities such as loansharking, bookmaking and protecting the enterprise from law enforcement. Operation Family Secrets was a milestone in the FBI's battle against organized crime in the city of Chicago that will have a significant effect on the operations of the Chicago Outfit, but it did not end the Outfit's reign in Chicago. The FBI and local law enforcement agencies will continue their efforts to eradicate organized crime in Chicago.^[3]

Contents [hide] 1 Murder Table 2 The Investigation 2.1 Frank, Jr.'s Letter to the FBI 2.2 Nick Calabrese's Cooperation with Federal Agents 3 The Trial 3.1 Sentencing 4 Notes

[edit] Murder Table

The following list is of the murders committed as objectives of the Chicago Outfit that were investigated in Operation Family Secrets.^[4]

Date of Murder	Killer(s)	Victim(s)	Location of Murder
August, 1970	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Michael "Hambone" Albergo	Chicago, Illinois
September 27, 1974	Joseph Lombardo and Frank Schweihs	Daniel Siefert	Bensenville, Illinois
June 24, 1976	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Paul Haggerty	Chicago, Illinois
March 15, 1977	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Henry Cosentino	Chicago, Illinois
January 16, 1978	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	John Mendell	Chicago, Illinois
January 31, 1978	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Donald Renno and Vincent Moretti	Cicero, Illinois
July 2, 1980	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	William Dauber and Charlette Dauber	Will County, Illinois
December 30, 1980	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	William Petrocelli	Cicero, Illinois
June 24, 1981	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Michael Cagnoni	DuPage County, Illinois
September 13, 1981	James Marcello	Nicholas D'Andrea	Chicago Heights, Illinois
April 24, 1982	James Marcello and Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Individual A	Lake County, Illinois
July 23, 1983	Frank Calabrese, Sr.	Richard D. Ortiz and Arthur Morawski	Cicero, Illinois
June 6, 1986	Frank Schweihs and Paul Schiro	Emil Vaci	Phoenix, Arizona
June 14, 1986	James Marcello	Anthony Spilotro and Michael Spilotro	DuPage County, Illinois
September 14, 1986	Nicholas Calabrese and Frank Calabrese, Sr.	John Fecarotta	Chicago, Illinois

[edit] The Investigation

[edit] Frank, Jr.'s Letter to the FBI

The investigation began on July 27, 1998 when Frank Calabrese, Jr. wrote a letter to the FBI saying he wanted help put his father in jail. The letter was sent without warning from the federal correctional facility in Milan, Michigan where both Frank Jr. and Sr, were incarcerated since 1995 when four members of the Calabrese family had been sentenced for collecting juice loans and racketeering an auto repair business. In his letter Frank Jr. requested a face-to-face meeting in which he planned to give the FBI information about his father's crimes, business of the Chicago Outfit street crews, and the murder of John Fecorotta.^[5] Frank Jr.'s letter read, "This is no game. I feel I have to help keep this sick man locked up forever."^[6] Frank, Jr. and his father had rough patches in their relationship over the years. Frank, Jr. had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from his father which he blew away on a cocaine addiction and a bad business decision.^[7] In the wake of his son's disloyalty, Frank Sr. allegedly forced a gun to his son's head and threatened to kill him.^[8] This and many other instances of Frank, Sr.'s abuse and poor fathering of his sons contributed to Frank, Jr.'s desire to help the FBI bring him down for hard time. Frank Calabrese, Jr. volunteered to record conversations he had with his father while they were imprisoned. Frank Jr. wore a pair of headphones around his neck that the FBI fitted with hidden a microphone to record conversation between the father and son. It was not difficult for Frank Jr. to direct his conversations in the prison courtyard and recreational facilities with his father towards information that would benefit the FBI's quickly assembling investigation. Frank Sr. would tell his son in a bragging manner about criminal activities of his past.

[edit] Nick Calabrese's Cooperation with Federal Agents

Federal agents Michael Maseth, Tom Bourgeois, and Michael Hartnett were assigned to the investigation. They began to put together pieces of information on the Fecarotta murder. Frank Sr. spoke nervously to his son about a pair of gloves that were mistakenly left on the scene of the Fecorotta murder by his brother Nick Calabrese. Frank Sr. knew the gloves were enough evidence to convict his brother for murder and he feared that his brother would turn on the Outfit in order to receive a lighter sentencing. The FBI took this information and reopened the unsolved Fecoratta case. Agents Bourgeois and Hartnett went to visit Nick Calabrese who they had put in jail a few years earlier to pursue him as the suspect in the Fecarotta murder case. When the investigation team had a sample of DNA taken from Nick, Nick's vulnerability became apparent. With his DNA matching that of the gloves used in the Fecarotta murder Nick Calabrese knew he was going down and was willing to betray the criminal organization he belonged to along with his brother. Nick cooperated with the FBI for months by giving depositions about the murders that he witnessed, took part in, and was told about. He also gave the government key information about how the Chicago Outfit operated.

[edit] The Trial

The FBI turned in a 43-page indictment that was created by the Family Secrets investigation in April 2005. Operation Family Secrets was unprecedented for the fact that it named the entire Chicago Outfit as a criminal enterprise. Assistant United States Attorneys T. Markus Funk, Mitchell Mars and John Scully would represent a the United States in the case. After more than two years, in June 2007 the Family Secrets trial began. Judge James Zagel would hear the case. The evidence was presented between June 28, 2007 and August 8, 2007. The trial included testimony from more than 125 witnesses and over 200 pieces of evidence.^[9] For Calabrese Sr., James Marcello, Joseph “The Clown” Lombardo, Paul “The Indian” Schiro, and Anthony “Twan” Doyle who the five main defendants the trial ended on August 30. The five men were found guilty on all counts for conspiracy and criminal acts of racketeering. Of the other nine defendants six plead guilty, two died before trial (Frank Saladino and Michael Ricci), and lastly Frank "The German" Schweihs was too ill to stand trial.^[10]

[edit] Sentencing

"Joey the Clown" Lombardo, 80; Frank Calabrese, Sr., 71; and James Marcello, 66, were all sentenced the maximum penalty of life in prison for their convictions which included murder.^[11] After admitting his contribution in 14 murders, Nick Calabrese was sentenced to only 12 years in prison, a light punishment rewarded because of unprecedented cooperation. Anthony Doyle, 64, and Paul Schiro, 71, were the only defendants who were not convicted of murder. The Family Secrets trial was a spectacle that added to the reputation for mob history that the city of Chicago has held for a long time.

Beefers and Rat Snitches

Listing of the Mob Rats, Snitches and Beefers

Richard Cain
(Sam Giancana's former driver)
His role in Cook County Sheriff's History

John Christopher (Operation Silver Shovel)

Robert Cooley (Operation Gambat)

Salvatore "Sammy The Bull" Gravano
(beefed on New York's Gambino Family Boss John "The Dapper Don" Gotti)


Henry Hill (Goodfellas fame)

Joseph "Joe Dogs" Iannuzzi
Florida member of the Gambino Family

William "B.J." Jahoda (Cicero, Illinois)
See Ernest Rocco Infelise


Angelo Lonardo
Cleveland Underboss & Snitch

Philip Leonetti
(Philadelphia/Atlantic City Mob)

Michael Raymond

Terry Salem
(Las Vegas Mob pal & rat)

Louis Shumway
Al Capone Accountant & Snitch

Joseph Valachi
Genovese Soldier who turned on his bosses in 1963

Cameron Crawford
Arizona Snitch 2012

Anthony Accardo

Birth:	Apr. 28,   1906
Death:	May 22,  1992
Organized Crime Figure. Born in Chicago, Illinois in  1906, he joined the city's organized crime family, the "Outfit," during  the late 1920s. He served under three bosses (Alphonse  Capone, Frank  Nitti, and Paul  Ricca), before becoming the boss himself. He expanded the Outfit's  influence to most of the western states, eventually succeeding in  allowing the Outfit total independence from the eastern mobs which had  their own ruling commission and territories. Anthony Accardo, who was  also known as the "Big Tuna," ruled the family from approximately 1943  until 1957, when he abdicated leadership to his underboss, Sam  (Momo) Giancana. When Giancana went to prison in 1965, he returned  to full control untiL  the early 1970s, when his new underboss Joseph  Aiuppa took the reigns - always with his supervision. His years on  the Chicago throne were remarkable by their brutality and bloodshed,  particularly on violators of the drug ban enforced in the city. He,  unlike other mob bosses throughout history, was serious about this rule.  When the Chicago leadership was decimated by Las Vegas casino skimming  convictions in the mid-1980s, he returned to the fold and reinstated a  new administration, remaining in the background to survey their  management. When he passed away in 1992, the family he had turned into a  vast army of money-making killers was a shell of its former self.