On this day in 1990 Anthony DiLapi was shot four times in the face and another four times to the body, The order was given by Casso and Amuso with Al D’Arco the man who organized the hit team. Two former NYPD officers (Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa) who worked for the mob were convicted of DiLapi and another 7 murders.

On this day, February 4, 1990, Anthony DiLapi was gunned down in Los Angeles, shot four times in the face and four more times in the body in a killing that bore all the hallmarks of a professionally orchestrated mob execution. DiLapi, who was 53 years old at the time of his death, was a made member of the Lucchese crime family, one of New York's notorious Five Families whose roots stretched back to the era of Lucky Luciano and the founding of the American Mafia's Commission in the early 1930s.

DiLapi had been a trusted figure within the Lucchese organisation but had fallen dangerously out of favour with the family's brutal leadership. At the time, the Lucchese family was under the iron grip of boss Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, two of the most feared and unpredictable figures in the New York underworld during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Casso and Amuso had developed a paranoid and murderous leadership style, ordering the deaths of numerous associates and members they suspected of disloyalty or skimming money. DiLapi had reportedly relocated to California in an attempt to distance himself from the increasingly volatile New York hierarchy, but there was to be no escape.

The order to kill DiLapi was given by Casso and Amuso, with acting boss Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco tasked with organising the hit team. What makes this case particularly remarkable in mob history, however, is the involvement of two corrupt former New York Police Department detectives, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. The pair, who had been secretly working as paid informants and operatives for the Lucchese family, were later convicted for their roles in DiLapi's murder along with seven other killings. Eppolito and Caracappa became two of the most notorious bent coppers in American law enforcement history, their betrayal of their badges representing one of the most scandalous cases of police corruption the NYPD had ever seen.

The two detectives were eventually arrested in 2005 and convicted in 2006, with Eppolito and Caracappa both sentenced to life in prison. The DiLapi murder remains one of the defining cases in the long and sordid history of the Lucchese family's reign of violence under Amuso and Casso, and the convictions of Eppolito and Caracappa stand as a stark reminder that the reach of organised crime can corrupt even those sworn to uphold the law.