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On the morning of Dec. 14, 1971, NYPD undercover detective Frank Serpico put on his only suit. The son of an immigrant cobbler then stopped to get his good pair of shoes shined. The bearded 12-year police veteran was about to dismantle the department’s infamous “blue wall of silence,” exposing the NYPD’s systemic corruption across three hours of un...

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The seventh installment of the Michele Giannattasio Lecture Series at Swinging Sixties Senior Center (211 Ainslie Street) will feature the 2017 documentary Frank Serpico on September 18 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The film’s director, Antonino D’Ambrosio, will be present to discuss the film and Joseph Sciorra, PhD of the Calandra Institute will emcee. Ad...

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New York City cop Frank Serpico spent years telling his superiors that police officers were pocketing hefty sums of payoff money from gamblers and drug dealers. He, along with Detective David Durk, took the story to the New York Times in April 1970, and in February 1971, Serpico was bleeding outside a drug dealer’s door with a bullet that’s still l...

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Nearly 50 years after Frank Serpico exposed endemic corruption in the New York City Police Department, his name still divides people. For some, especially those on the left, Serpico is a whistleblower — a brave loner who took on a sinister system. For law-and-order types and many an ex-cop, he’s a rat who, for the sake of “a few bad apples,” betray...

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Francesco Vincent “Frank” Serpico was born on April 14th, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Vincenzo Serpico, was born in the town of Marigliano, in the province of Naples, in the region of Campania, Italy. His mother, Maria Giovanna, was born in Ohio but returned with her family when she was young to Italy where she later met and married Vin...

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L'ultima battaglia di Frank Serpico, la leggendaria 'talpa' della polizia di New York corrotta: l'eroe che smascherò il 'Blue Wall', il muro di tangenti e omertà del New York Police Department è oggi pronto a fuggire in Europa se non riuscirà a sventare il progetto di un costruttore italo-americano che minaccia l'oasi verde in cui si è rifugiato de...

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The Italian American Labor Council will honor one of its own as Man of the Year on Oct. 3 at Alta Villa Banquets in Addison. (312-822-3183, chicagoialc.com) This year's honoree will be IALC President Emeritus Joseph Serpico.   A past president of Local 1031 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the retired union services vice...

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The Comboni Mission Center will honor Jo Ann Serpico on Nov. 26 at Porretta's Banquets in Chicago. (708-354-1999). Jo Ann's prominence in the Chicago-area Italian-American community is a testament to her late father, Joseph R. Salerno. One of the founders of the Rosario D. Salerno Sons Funeral Homes, he was an early organizer of the Chicago-area It...

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di Riccardo Chioni   A Francesco Serpico, il determinato agente che ha lottato contro la corruzione divenuto famoso nel mondo con il film interpretato da Al Pacino, medaglia all'Onore della polizia di New York, tessera Nr. 3 dell'Associazione Nazionale Polizia di Stato di New York e New Jersey, è stata riconosciuta la cittadinanza italiana. Giov...

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