{"id":3866,"date":"2008-10-08T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2008-10-08T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T18:06:00","slug":"where_have_you_gone_don_carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/where_have_you_gone_don_carlo.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Have You Gone, Don Carlo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remnants of the Gambino crime family have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10082008\/news\/regionalnews\/goons_in_wiener_roast_bust_132648.htm\">reduced to shaking down hot dog vendors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Three men &#8212; two of them Gambino crime-family associates &#8212; have been charged with shaking down a Bronx hot-dog vendor and beating him, cops said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The men &#8212; also suspected of torching his truck &#8212; allegedly demanded $200 a week in &#8220;protection&#8221; money from the vendor and attacked him when he refused to pay. <\/p>\n<p>Reputed Gambino associates Robert &#8220;Bobby Fingers&#8221; Francella, 49, and Patrick Lombardo, 47, along with Gregory Monzeglio, 44, met with the victim several times in a restaurant. <\/p>\n<p>When they couldn&#8217;t collect, they beat him with a hammer on Aug. 14, and assaulted him again on Sept. 8, cops said. The vendor suffered cuts and lacerations. <\/p>\n<p>The truck, parked in a vacant lot near the restaurant, was burned on Sept. 28.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remnants of the Gambino crime family have been reduced to shaking down hot dog vendors: Three men &#8212; two of them Gambino crime-family associates &#8212; have been charged with shaking down a Bronx hot-dog vendor and beating him, cops said yesterday. The men &#8212; also suspected of torching his truck &#8212; allegedly demanded $200 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,27,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-just_horrible","category-law_order","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}