By KATI CORNELL
Posted: 4:33 am
October 11, 2008
The operators of the Sikorski Meat Market in Brooklyn had a lot to hide, and it had nothing to do with sausage.
The feds rounded up more than a dozen accused drug traffickers who bought and sold cocaine out of the Greenpoint butcher shop, including a Sanitation Department cop who is the nephew of ex-NYPD detective and convicted mob hit man Louis Eppolito.
The ring tried to cover its tracks by discussing the drugs in code - dubbing cocaine "hot kielbasa" - but they were cooked after an FBI informant became a customer of the business, according to a complaint unsealed yesterday in Brooklyn federal court.
"Come to the store. I have hot kielbasa for you," Andrzej Filipkowski, 40, a meat market employee, allegedly told the informant last Dec. 15.
Among those arrested yesterday was John Guarneri, 31, a Sanitation Department police lieutenant and the nephew of disgraced "Mafia cop" Eppolito, who faces life behind bars for racketeering.
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