Frank Serpico

As a police officer he was a star witness in corruption hearings. Imprisoned for murder, he claimed he’d been falsely prosecuted for speaking out.

He was chief counsel to the New York commission formed after Frank Serpico’s revelations about systemic graft and the department’s lax response.

Friday: The current scenario in Washington is “so parallel to my situation,” said Frank Serpico, who in the 1970s spoke up about widespread corruption in the Police Department.

The real Frank Serpico proves to be a compelling figure in a documentary that picks up where the classic Hollywood film left off.

Frank Serpico, whose whistle-blowing in the New York Police Department made him a household name, is running for office in Stuyvesant, N.Y.

Frank Serpico was issued a subpoena ordering him to turn over any documents or materials he might possess related to the trial of a New York police officer, Adrian Schoolcraft, who is suing the city.

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.

Frank Serpico, who helped uncover wrongdoing by the New York police decades ago, is at odds with a neighbor over property overlooking the Hudson.

Looking back on the New York films of Sidney Lumet, who died April 9, we may miss their present-tense urgency and journalistic clarity.

Forty years after getting shot in a drug bust and testifying against police corruption, retired Detective Frank Serpico is still trying to heal.