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Dec 5, 1973 · Serpico: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire. An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Serpico. Serpico is a 1973 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book of the same name written by Peter Maas with the assistance of its subject, Frank Serpico.
Feb 4, 2022 · By John Annese New York Daily News. NEW YORK — Frank Serpico has finally gotten his due from the New York Police Department. The legendary police whistle-blower got his proper police Medal of Honor and its accompanying certificate after Mayor Eric Adams stepped in and said he’d make sure Serpico got the accolade, ending Serpico’s five-decade fight with the department.
Serpico at Home. Four decades after battling corruption in the New York City Police Department, Frank Serpico, 77, is now battling a developer building a luxury home next to his upstate refuge ...
Feb 4, 2022 · NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico honored 50 years late Serpico testified in December 1971 to a panel appointed by Mayor John Lindsay to investigate police corruption, breaking the “blue wall of ...
At 75, Frank Serpico has come a long way from the days when he exposed rampant corruption in the New York Police Department in the 1960s, got shot in the face during a drug bust and subsequently ...
Biography. Frank Serpico was born in Brooklyn, New York. When he was eighteen, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for two years in Korea. After military service, he worked part-time and attended college, joining the New York City Police Department at the age of twenty-three. His police career has been well-documented in Peter Maas’s best ...
