Law & Order: Organized Crime

In the nation's largest city,

the vicious and violent members

of the underworld are hunted by the detectives

of the Organized Crime Control Bureau.

These are their stories.

This op is about to go live.

My job is to catch scumbags.

You wanna come at me, come at me.

We filed a lawsuit against the NYPD.

Does your wife, Sergeant Ayanna Bell,

support a lawsuit against her fellow officers?

Would you have our backs?

You can't handle this alone.

We can't just back down now.

We are out here with little backup.

Hands in the air! - Freeze!

Go ahead. Shoot me.

That's what you do.

Gina Cappelletti.

Tell us what happened.

I don't know!

We know you were there.

Are you in love with him?

Did she tell you she ordered the hit on your wife?

Ignore him, Elliot. This is what he does.

You know you're not the love of his life.

What was her name again, Elliot?

Docket ending 1122,

23, and 24.

People versus Richard Wheatley, Dana Wheatley,

and Richard Wheatley, Jr.

Defendants are charged with 23 counts of penal law,

section 46022,

aggravated enterprise corruption.

Penal law 47020,

money laundering in the first degree.

Penal law 22043,

criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.

And for the defendant Richard Wheatley only,

two counts of penal law section 12020,

murder in the second degree

for the murder of Manfredi Sinatra...

And the murder of Kathleen Marie Stabler.

Anything else you want to throw in there?

Shoplifting, jaywalking, maybe a little gangbanging?

Do you find this amusing, Mr. Wheatley?

No, Your Honor. I find it terrifying.

A man in my position is used to being targeted,

but it's a new low when my children,

just beginning their adult lives,

are attacked by a system

that view them as-- as suspect,

only because the color of their skin--

That's enough. - It's absolutely disgraceful.

That is enough, Mr. Wheatley.

His strategy is you can't prosecute us,

'cause my kids are Black?

Yeah, historically, that hasn't worked very well.

How do your clients plead? - Athena Davis,

for the defendant Richard Wheatley, Your Honor.

The defendant pleads not guilty.

Not guilty. - Not guilty.

People, I'll hear you on bail.

Your Honor, the defendants have been charged

in one of the most far-reaching organized crime cases

to come out of the city of New York in over a decade--

racketeering, money laundering. multiple murders,

including the targeted murder of a police officer's wife.

And all in addition to the grotesque acquisition

of millions of doses of COVID vaccines

for the express purpose of extorting developing nations.

In light of the charges and the multiple life sentences

that the defendants are facing,

the people request that all three be remanded without bail.

Defendants are remanded. Bailiff, take charge.

Go ahead.

Not a lot of fireworks.

So what is his strategy?

I'm sure we're gonna find out soon enough.

Here she is! Ms. Davis!

Ms. Davis, can you please just explain how...

Is he worried that his children are gonna make a deal

and testify against him?

Is it true Wheatley's ex-wife,

Professor Angela Wheatley,

is already cooperating with the prosecution?

Let me be very clear.

Richard Wheatley is the victim here.

Dana Wheatley and Richard Wheatley, Jr.

will not be testifying against their father

because there's nothing to testify to.

What you did not hear in that courtroom today,

is that the Organized Crime Task Force

that led this investigation

has a massive conflict of interest.

And that conflict of interest

just walked out the courthouse steps.

Head up, eyes forward. Just keep walking.

No comment.

No comment.

It's nice to know the department stands behind you

when you're pursuing justice for your family.

I imagine it would be.

Someday you won't have to imagine, Ayanna,

but we have to stay the course.

Stabler has my back.

I'm glad to have his.

As for Angela Wheatley,

I think it's just sad and pathetic

that after all these years,

she's still unable to let go

of the bitter vindictiveness

she has towards her ex-husband.

...Has led him to entertain

no one other than Richard Wheatley as a suspect,

which has led the full-scale railroading...

Hold up, Counselor.

You really gonna do this every time?

Has she eaten anything? - Barely.

She had a little fruit salad this morning.

I brought you the pappardelle al limone from I Sodi.

She can't resist that.

You can taste test it if you must,

or I will, and if I start to convulse--

Counselor, there's no outside food allowed, okay?

Everything has to come from the hotel kitchen

where we can control it.

Hey, man, I'm just trying to keep her safe, okay?

In case you get bored...

How many people do they have guarding me?

I don't know exactly.

I saw a couple plainclothesmen on my way in.

It won't stop him.

What about my children?

Still working on it.

If they let me talk to Richie,

I can get him to cooperate.

I know he's terrified-- he's never had to make

existential decisions all by himself--

Look, I'm doing my very best, Angela,

but he's about to be charged

as an accessory to the murder of a police officer.

I don't believe he was involved

in whatever happened to her.

Kay, I'ma wait to hear

if there's gonna be a grand jury.

Ellsworth.

Did you find out anything about that woman?

I did some checking.

It's probably just another bluff,

but a couple people thought that your ex might have been

referring to Detective Stabler's former partner,

Captain Olivia Benson.

Let me worry about Angela.

I'm pretty sure she'll make the right decision in the end.

Tell me where we are on the RICO charges.

Depends on what they have--

wiretaps, video surveillance,

confidential informants, bank records.

Let's assume they have it all.

Okay.

A case this sprawling and complex

might not see the inside of a courtroom

for a year, at least.

You will sit here, biding your time.

The hell I will.

If you're gonna play your card, Richard,

now's the time.

The Contrapos bank records go to 46022.

Except for payments for bulk orders.

Those go to CSCS. - Kay.

I'll take that over here.

I didn't find any case-related stuff

in her apartment.

Because she was a good undercover.

You got all her personal belongings?

They're in my car.

I wasn't sure what to do with it.

You can give them to me.

I'll make sure her brothers get them.

Her family didn't know she was a cop.

Cappelletti family mostly rolls with the other side.

I know what that's like.

Yeah. I know you do, Morales.

I appreciate you.

We just found out what Wheatley's strategy is:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Vince Baldi.

He's a clown.

Isn't he about to run for governor?

There's no better way to start off

your gubernatorial campaign than with a big,

splashy takedown of corrupt organizations.

He's gonna get Baldi to big foot our case.

He doesn't want a Manhattan D.A. to prosecute him.

He wants a federal trial.

Doesn't want a federal trial.

He wants a get-out-of-jail free card from the feds.

He's doing it to try and make a deal with Baldi.

What does Wheatley have that's worth so much?

I mean, I know he has dirt on people.