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An 86-year-old former mob boss known as “Tony Cakes” was killed in an apparent “accident” involving a department of transportation vehicle in New York City.
The man, whose given name was Anthony Conigliaro, was a former acting captain for the Genovese crime family according to the New York Post.
Conigliaro was allegedly struck by the vehicle while walking in a crosswalk in Brooklyn. The accident left Conigliaro headless. The reported driver of the vehicle appeared inconsolable, understandably.
The New York Police Department told the New York Post that an investigation is ongoing. But no arrests have been made.
Police state that Conigliaro was crossing Dahlgren Place against a “don’t walk” sign in a marked crosswalk when the 31-year-old driver of a Ford F550 truck was turning on a green light and struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
“He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” one police source reportedly told the New York Post.
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Conigliaro reportedly worked in the wholesale cake business across New York City. He also ran an Italian ice and gelato stand in Little Italy according to Fox News.
In 2005, he was accused by federal prosecutors of being a soldier in the Genovese crime family.
Mathew Mari, a mob lawyer who counted Conigliaro as a friend and client, told the paper Conigliaro became successful in the dessert business after serving his prison time.
“Later on in life he became known as Tony the Dessert Man,” lawyer Matthew Mari, who considered himself a friend of Conigliaro, told the New York Post. “He was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken, very quiet guy. Always trying to help people.”