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Nevada dad John Eppolito got a bad case of sticker shock when he asked state education officials to see the permanent records of his four children. He was told it would cost $10,194. A Lake Tahoe-area real estate agent by trade and a fierce opponent of Common Core, Eppolito was concerned about Nevada's recent decision to join a multi-state consortium that shares students’ data. He wanted to know exactly what information had been compiled on his school-age kids. But state officials told him he would have to pay fees and the cost of programming and running a custom report. “The...

A judge told two decorated former detectives Monday that they will get the maximum - life in prison - for moonlighting as hitmen for the mob. U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein said he would not formally impose the sentence on Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa until at least June 23. At that time, the defendants will argue they were not adequately represented by their lawyers at their trial. ``This is probably the most heinous series of crimes ever tried in this courthouse,'' the judge said.(snip) Prosecutors said the detectives committed some of the murders themselves, and delivered up other...

(New York - AP, December 1, 2005) - After losing a fight to get his racketeering case thrown out, Louis Eppolito, a retired police officer accused of moonlighting as a hit man for the mob, insisted today that he was a "good cop." Lawyers for Eppolito and another ex-officer, Stephen Caracappa, argued at a pretrial hearing in Brooklyn federal court that the indictment was legally defective. A judge disagreed and set a trial date for February 21st. Prosecutors claim Eppolito and Caracappa accepted thousands of dollars a month to settle scores for the Luchese organized crime family while still on...