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Indicted in March 2005 with his retired NYPD partner Stephen Caracappa for providing information about key witnesses and confidential informants to the Lucchese crime family. They were also charged with carrying out mob murders and turning over individuals to the crime family's boss, Anthony Casso, who called Eppolito and Caracappa "my crystal ball." The two former cops were found guilty in April 2006. The conviction was overturned on a technicality, then reinstated on appeal in 2008. In 2009 he was sentenced to life plus 100 years in prison.

He was one of the most highly decorated policemen in the history of the New York Police Department.

Met Joe Pesci at Cafe Central, a restaurant frequented by celebrities. This confrontation would play a pivotal role in Eppolito becoming an actor and even secured a minor role in Goodfellas (1990) as "Fat Andy.".

He and Robert De Niro became acquaintances on the set of Goodfellas (1990) and De Niro invited him to his trailer during filming to share his knowledge of the Cosa Nostra over dinner.

His father, Ralph, and his uncle, James, were members of the Gambino Crime Family in New York.

When he was young, Louie would be misdiagnosed with polio after experiencing severe joint swelling and difficulty walking. A second opinion revealed that he had rheumatic fever, which damaged one of his heart valves. Louie would spend six months in a wheelchair and once recovered, he had to relearn how to walk again.

Despite his father's deep hatred for the police, Louis Eppolito would join the NYPD as a patrolman in 1969, shortly after his father's death from natural causes.