A horrifying video has emerged showing the moment an elderly man was struck and decapitated by a New York City Transit truck while crossing the street.
Police sources said the man was later identified as a former member of the Genovese crime family known as “Tony Cheesecake.” New York Post.
“He spent his life reflecting…”
Anthony Conigliaro was 86 years old and lived alone in a small apartment in Bay Ridge when a city truck plowed into him as he was crossing a street in Brooklyn on Wednesday around 3:30 p.m.
The brutal video surfaced on social media, TMZ screened The man was beaten and his severed head was later found lying in the street.
The Washington Post later reported that the victim had a criminal history with ties to the Genovese family.
“He kept looking back and forgot to look both ways before crossing the road,” a police source told The Post.
Conigliaro worked in the wholesale cheesecake industry before he was charged by the FBI with being a loan shark and convicted of organized crime conspiracy in 2005. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty. He was also arrested in 1999 on loan shark charges and in 2009 on grand larceny charges.
Residents near the accident site said the crossing was dangerous.
“Especially the pedestrian signs. They light up, but when you get to the middle of the road they go out. It’s really, really dangerous for people with disabilities or who can’t walk fast enough.” Said Samia Haq speaks to News 12 Brooklyn.
A Mafia lawyer who represented Mr. Conigliaro and called him a friend said that after he got out of prison he focused on his dessert business.
“In later years he became known as Tony the Desert Man,” Matthew Mari said. “He was a kind, gentle, very quiet person. Always trying to help people.”
Neighbors who were unaware of the man’s criminal history remembered him as a good person.
“We miss him so much. We miss everyone,” the man said.
The truck driver is 31 years old and is completely Devastating The incident left him in shock and he was seen on video rocking him back and forth while a passerby tried to comfort him.
“Now we know why that Department of Transportation guy was crying… he’s probably seeking witness protection,” a source told The Post.
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