Octogenarian who died in horrific circumstances had troubled past, reveals New York Post.
On June 12, Anthony Conigliaro was crossing an intersection in Brooklyn, New York when a city truck making a turn fatally struck him, separating his head from his body. When help arrived, the head was several meters from the rest of the remains.
During his lifetime, the deceased was a mafioso, head of the famous Genovese family, one of the five main clans of the Big Apple formed between the end of the 19the century and the beginning of the 20the century.
During his criminal career, the man who bore the nicknames “Tony Cakes” and “Tony The Dessert Man” was an active member, loan shark and even “capo” of the Genovese clan.
He was arrested in 1999 for loan sharking crimes and a second time in 2006 for grand theft. He then pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, a crime for which he received 13 months in prison.
Anthony Conigliaro, however, had been leading a peaceful life for several years, in an apartment in the Bay Ridge neighborhood.
“He spent his life looking over his shoulder, but [cette fois-là] he forgot to look on both sides of the street before crossing it,” a police officer told New York Post.
