A reputed Genovese capo admitted yesterday to spending more than a decade forging travel documents and switching residences in order to flee a New Jersey murder rap. "I agreed and acted with others to harbor and conceal me, to avoid my arrest by law enforcement," said Michael Coppola, 61, who got a 31/2-year sentence in return for his guilty plea to conspiracy to hide a fugitive. Coppola went on the lam in 1996, after New Jersey authorities investigating the 1977 killing of wiseguy John "Johnny Cokes" Lardiere served him with a court order for a DNA sample. .

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