New York pedestrian decapitated by metropolis truck was Genovese household mobster

An 86-year-old man who was decapitated after being struck by a truck in Brooklyn was revealed to have been a former mobster-turned-baker as soon as often known as “Tony Desserts.”

Antonio Conigliaro, was hit by a 31-year-old Division of Transportation truck driver at 3.30pm on June 12 when the 86-year-old was crossing the road “in opposition to the don’t stroll check in a marked crosswalk,” NYPD instructed The Unbiased in a press release. The incident occurred on the intersection of 92 Road and Dahlgren Place in Bay Ridge.

Conigliaro was as soon as a “soldier” of the Genovese Crime Household and was additionally known as “Tony Desserts,” “Tony Watches” and “Little Tony,” a 2005 federal indictment revealed. He pleaded responsible to the racketeering prices and was sentenced to 13 months in jail, information present.

Years later, he transitioned from crimes to muffins. The as soon as performing mob captain additionally owned a “cheesecake distribution dessert enterprise,” court docket information present.

“Afterward in life he grew to become often known as Tony the Dessert Man,” Mathew Mari, Conigliaro’s buddy and former lawyer, instructed the New York Submit, which first reported on Conigliaro’s background.

One police supply remarked on the ironic finish to Conigliaro’s life, telling the New York Submit: “He spent his life wanting over his shoulder, however he forgot to look each methods earlier than crossing the road.”

Conigliaro was pronounced lifeless on the scene, whereas the Division of Transportation (DOT) driver was not arrested, police mentioned, including that the investigation into the incident is ongoing.

One supply instructed the outlet: “Now we all know why that DOT man was crying… he’s most likely asking for witness safety.”

The Genovese crime household is certainly one of New York’s so-called 5 Households of Italian-American mafiosi, whose energy reached its top between the Forties and the Nineteen Seventies.