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A shocking and disturbing video has surfaced, showing an 86-year-old man being struck and decapitated by a DOT truck in Brooklyn, leaving everyone stunned. The story took an even more dramatic turn when the victim was identified as the infamous mobster, ‘Tony Cakes’—real name Anthony Conigliaro, a former acting captain of the Genovese crime family. Police said that although Tony spent his life “looking over his shoulder,” tragically, he failed to look both ways before crossing the street. This one mistake led to one of the most gruesome traffic deaths ever.

The New York Post:

The 86-year-old man who was decapitated by a truck that plowed into him at a Brooklyn crosswalk is a former acting captain for the Genovese crime family, The Post can exclusively reveal.

Anthony Conigliaro — a one-time mafioso known as “Tony Cakes,” “Tony the Dessert Man,” among other dessert-themed sobriquets — died June 12 in an accidental hit by a city Department of Transportation truck, his lawyers and law-enforcement sources said.

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Before Conigliaro’s gruesome death, he apparently lived a quiet life by himself in a small Bay Ridge apartment building on Dahlgren Place.

A neighbor told The Post that Conigliaro, a dad of two, always looked out for others.

“We miss him. Everybody misses him,” he said.

But the neighbor didn’t know about Conigliaro’s past — which not only included a connection to the mafia, but also a nearly two-decade-old racketeering case.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors in 2005 accused Conigliaro — who toiled for years in the wholesale cake business, selling sweets across the New York City area and running an Italian ice and gelato stand in Little Italy, according to court documents — of being a soldier in the Genovese crime family.

Conigliaro worked as a loan shark for the Genovese, the feds said in a four-count indictment.

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The video of the accident is below. Warning: graphic content.

Dom Lucre:

🔥🚨BREAKING: A Genovese mobster known as ‘Tony Cakes’ has been ID’d as elderly NYC pedestrian decapitated by DOT truck.

“He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” one police source said.
Before Conigliaro’s gruesome death, he apparently lived a quiet life by himself in a small Bay Ridge apartment building on Dahlgren Place.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors in 2005 accused Conigliaro — who toiled for years in the wholesale cake business, selling sweets across the New York City area and running an Italian ice and gelato stand in Little Italy, according to court documents — of being a soldier in the Genovese crime family.

Conigliaro worked as a loan shark for the Genovese, the feds said in a four-count indictment

He eventually copped a guilty plea to a racketeering conspiracy charge, for which he received a 13-month sentence, court records state.

Many who saw the video think it could have been an “execution,” not an accident. They point out that he was clearly in the crosswalk for quite a while, and the slow-moving truck suggests the driver might have been distracted, possibly on his phone, or that the hit was intentional.

One retired police chief on X had this to say about the accident:

I’ve worked any number of fatality accidents and how he didn’t see him is beyond me. My guess is the cops are going thru his cell phone to see if it was in use at the time of the accident. My guess is that it was. He was either texting or talking.

Either way, what an incredible twist of fate—probably a death far worse than anything “Tony Cakes” could have imagined, even during the peak of his mobster days.

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