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NEW YORK (AP) - Two former police detectives accused of moonlighting as killers for the Mafia walked free on $5 million bail each Thursday as a defense lawyer said he would seek dismissal of the charges.
Prosecutors allege that former partners Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa lived double lives at hitmen for the mob, gunning down, kidnapping and tracking down rivals of a Lucchese family underboss for tens of thousands of dollars.
A Brooklyn federal judge dealt the prosecution a blow earlier this month when he said that the statute of limitations may have run out on the murder charges and called the accusations "relatively stale."
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