City Worker Whacks Beloved Ex-Mobster

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The city worker had no idea he ran over, and decapitated, a pedestrian.
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The city worker had no idea he ran over, and decapitated, a pedestrian. It was totally an accident. When he learned who the victim was, he started asking for witness protection. 86-year-old Antonio Conigliaro “was revealed to have been a former mobster-turned-baker once known as ‘Tony Cakes.” The “soldier” of the Genovese Crime Family crossed against the light but the driver is well aware of the family’s reputation for vengeance. Accident or not.

City worker whacks mobster

Police in Brooklyn, New York, have no plans to charge the 31-year-old Department of Transportation worker involved in an unfortunate accident. Whether the Genovese family decides to prosecute him unofficially is an entirely different matter.

Around 3:30 pm on June 12, the truck driver struck and decapitated Conigliaro, apparently without ever seeing him. NYPD relates that Tony Cakes was crossing the street, at the intersection of 92 Street and Dahlgren Place in Bay Ridge, “against the don’t walk sign in a marked crosswalk.

The first thing the worker noticed was the thump. Also trading under the names “Tony Watches” and “Little Tony,” Conigliaro took a plea on 2005 federal racketeering charges.

After doing his 13 months hard time, Conigliaro retired from the mob business to concentrate on running a bakery. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t available for “consultation” from time to time.

Back in the day, while “acting mob captain,” Tony owned a “cheesecake distribution dessert business.” Eventually, as related by friend and former lawyer Mathew Mari, “he became known as Tony the Dessert Man.

The police were full of pithy observations. One unnamed source quipped, “he spent his life looking over his shoulder, but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

86-year-old Antonio Conigliaro “was revealed to have been a former mobster-turned-baker once known as ‘Tony Cakes.'”

Pronounced dead at the scene

Paramedics had no trouble concluding he was dead at the scene. the DOT worker wasn’t arrested but “the investigation into the incident is ongoing.” It was another inside source who provided the remark “now we know why that DOT guy was crying… he’s probably asking for witness protection.” That’s really no laughing matter.

The Genovese crime family is one of New York’s so-called Five Families of Italian-American mafiosi, whose power reached its height between the 1940s and the 1970s.” They still manage to keep their hand in things.

Tony’s court documents verify that he “worked as a loan shark for the family.” The “kind, gentle, soft-spoken, very quiet guy” who was “always trying to help people” wouldn’t hesitate to break your knee if you didn’t pay up. You won’t be hearing from that DOT worker for a while.

Originally founded by Charles “Lucky” Luciano, the family “rebranded” in 1957 “when it was renamed after boss Vito Genovese.” They quickly seized “control of the waterfront on the West Side of Manhattan as well as the docks and the Fulton Fish Market on the East River waterfront.

For years, the family was managed by “The Oddfather.” You may remember Vincent “The Chin” Gigante. He’s the one who “feigned insanity by shuffling unshaven through New York’s Greenwich Village wearing a tattered bath robe and muttering to himself incoherently to avoid prosecution.

Just because a Genovese family member is “retired” doesn’t mean they’re safe to run over. That’s why the worker is glad nobody is printing his name and laying low as a precaution.

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