{"id":539,"date":"2005-12-15T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/this_still_happens.html"},"modified":"2005-12-15T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T17:37:08","slug":"this_still_happ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/this_still_happ.html","title":{"rendered":"This Still Happens?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things I’d rather not know about include extrajudicial mafia justice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Gambino organized-crime family, furious at the shooting of one of its bosses, is calling for a sit-down with the rival Bonannos to decide the fate of the ex-cop who allegedly pulled the trigger, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.<\/p>\n

The Gambinos are absolutely livid because the victim, Carmine Sciandra, who runs the Top Tomato produce market, is a top captain in the Mafia family and was once considered a successor to “teflon don” John Gotti, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Both residents and law-enforcement officials fear that unless the dispute is resolved, it could lead to war between the two families.<\/p>\n

Sciandra was shot in the belly outside the market on Dec. 7 by former cop Patrick Balsamo, who brought along two Bonanno thugs to use as muscle, police said.<\/p>\n

Balsamo was angry because he believed Carmine’s brother, Salvatore, groped the cop’s 18-year-old daughter, Maria, a College of Staten Island student. The teen had worked as a cashier at the market before being fired.<\/p>\n

Swinging a baseball bat, Balsamo smashed several windows before a melee erupted. During the fracas, the ex-cop drew a gun and blasted Sciandra, police said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may be thinking, “Eliot Ness wouldn’t allow these produce-pimping monsters get away with this!” but apparently the feds are watching them:<\/p>\n

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn and the FBI’s organized crime task force are watching to see if any mobsters retaliate.<\/p>\n

The feds fear a mob war could erupt because the brazen attack on Sciandra was not approved by other bosses.<\/p>\n

“This was a renegade act,” a police source said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet, the Top Tomato Code of Silence stays intact:<\/p>\n

At the time of the shooting, witnesses said that they heard a shot and saw Sciandra go down.<\/p>\n

Then they saw several men with baseball bats chase a sedan out of the parking lot.<\/p>\n

Top Tomato employees would say only, “I don’t know nothin’.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things I’d rather not know about include extrajudicial mafia justice: The Gambino organized-crime family, furious at the shooting of one of its bosses, is calling for a sit-down with the rival Bonannos to decide the fate of the ex-cop who allegedly pulled the trigger, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The Gambinos are absolutely livid because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_screenwriters_idea_bag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}