News about Frank Serpico

Frank Serpico, the famed NYPD detective, says cops 'purged' classified information from his files after being left to'bleed out' in a botched 1971 drug bust

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 3, 2023
Frank Serpico, a former NYPD whistleblower, claims he was planted in 1971 drug bust, where he was nearly shot dead. He continues to seek out the truth about what happened that night five decades later. However, the papers relating to the near-fatal on-duty shooting, which was filmed in an Oscar-nominated film starring Al Pacino, have vanished from his employment file without a trace. 'I got 11 boxes of b******t, but the essential stuff wasn't there,' he told DailyMail.com. They didn't lose anything.' The critical stuff had to be expunged with deliberate intention. Anything that reveals how I was supposed to die is missing.'

It's a Mexican superhero!PETER HOSKIN reviews DC's latest superhero offering Blue Beetle, which is different - until it's not

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 18, 2023
PETER HOSKIN: Now, in DC Comics' continuing fight to have a cinematic universe rival Marvel's, it is finally the turn of Blue Beetle. You know, the one that is blue. And a beetle. Blue Beetle, a 20-something guy who has been bonded with an alien artefact called the scarab, gives him great strength, dexterity, endurance, weaponry, and flight... all the traditional stuff. And, yes, he is blue when dressed in his amazosuit. And he does seem to be a beetle.