Opinion ID: 1212404
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The Murder of Anthony Dilapi

Text: In the late 1980s, Lucchese Crime Family member Anthony Dilapi, who was on parole, was suspected of having become a government informant. And when summoned by Casso to account for gambling establishments that Dilapi controlled, Dilapi did not appear for the meeting but instead sold his establishments and left town. Casso asked Kaplan to have Eppolito and Caracappa try to locate Dilapi. Caracappa wrote to Dilapi's parole officer indicating that he needed to contact Dilapi as part of an ongoing police investigation, and he was ultimately able to give Kaplan an address for Dilapi in California. Kaplan relayed the information to Casso, who sent three men to kill Dilapi. Dilapi, however, recognized one of the men and escaped, moving to a new location. At Casso's request, relayed by Kaplan, Caracappa then obtained and reported Dilapi's new address in Hollywood. In February 1990, Casso had Dilapi killed in the garage of his new apartment building.