22 Facts About Mikey Coppola

Mikey Coppola made national headlines when he went into hiding for 11 years to avoid a possible murder conviction.

Michael Coppola has been working for the Genovese family since the 1960s.

Mikey Coppola became a made man in the late 1970s and was part of a Genovese hit team known as "The Fist", according to government documents.

Mikey Coppola was involved in labor racketeering in the trucking industry and New Jersey docks.

Mikey Coppola served almost five years in prison from 1979 to 1983 for conspiracy and extortion.

Mikey Coppola became an acting caporegime while Tino Fiumara was in prison in the 1980s and 1990s, running the day-to-day activities of the New Jersey faction Fiurama had orders relayed to him.

In 1996, Mikey Coppola was charged in the 1977 killing of John "Johnny Cokes" Lardiere.

Mikey Coppola told the FBI that Lardiere's killer was Coppola.

Ricciardi told police that he heard the entire story of Lardiere's murder from Mikey Coppola while talking about mob murders with Michael Taccetta at a party in 1983.

Since the advancement of forensics since 1977, a judge ordered Mikey Coppola to submit a DNA test.

Mikey Coppola spent most of his time moving between apartments in San Francisco and New York City.

Mikey Coppola pleaded guilty to fugitive charges and was given a 42-month sentence.

In 2009, the FBI believed that Mikey Coppola was going to turn state's evidence against the Genovese family and cooperate with the FBI.

Mikey Coppola waived a speedy arraignment and spent the next two nights sleeping at FBI headquarters in lower Manhattan at an undisclosed hotel.

Mikey Coppola met with a government arranged lawyer known as a shadow counsel.

In July 2009, Mikey Coppola was put on trial for murder, racketeering and extorting the Local 1235 of the International Longshoremen's Association for over 30 years.

Defense lawyer Henry Mazurek told jurors that Mikey Coppola admitted to making a "rash" decision to flee, but that it didn't prove he's a killer.

Mikey Coppola hid because he didn't want to face a jury like you.

On July 21,2009, Mikey Coppola was acquitted of the murder, partially due to the DNA test proving inconclusive since it matched 11 million white men in America.

Mikey Coppola was then taken into custody already serving time for his original fugitive sentence in the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn.

Mikey Coppola served most of his time at the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta before being sent to Residential Reentry Management in Brooklyn in 2021.

Mikey Coppola was released from federal custody on October 20,2022.