A pair of former NYPD officers who moonlighted for a crime family were convicted of murder Thursday in Brooklyn federal court.

A jury returned the guilty verdict after two days of deliberations. Veteran cops Louis Eppolito, 57, and Stephen Caracappa, 64, face life sentences. Prosecutors argued the detectives took part in eight murders between 1986 and 1990 while working for Luchese underboss Anthony ?Gaspipe? Casso. Authorities linked the men to the notable killings of a mobster during a fake traffic stop and the slaying of an innocent man.

Eppolito and Caracappa were arrested in March 2005 and maintain they are innocent. They spent a combined 44 years on the police force and were highly decorated.