What is this "cement boot action"!?!
I swear to God this is true:
When I lived in New Jersey, about three years ago, this happened, about 2 miles from my old house. Right after Thanksgiving, when it was about 30 degrees, a guy walked into a restaurant and told the manager there was a car in the parking lot that smelled bad and had flies buzzing around it. In 30 degrees! iLarry Ricci was stuffed in the trunk. It was the first time anyone saw him since he was supposed to have testified in a mob trial about 8 weeks before. No cement boots, just a bullet and a trunk.
They didn't make that sh!t up in The Sopranos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/n...Lawrence+Ricci&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Body Found in Car Is Said to Be Mob Figure's
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By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: December 1, 2005
Federal authorities believe that a decomposed body discovered yesterday in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner is that of a mob figure who disappeared during his federal fraud trial and was later acquitted, law enforcement officials said.
The man, Lawrence Ricci, 60, of Gillette, N.J., whom prosecutors have described as an acting captain in the Genovese crime family, was last seen by his girlfriend on Oct. 7.
F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, along with his lawyer, all said at the time that they feared he had been killed.
The body was taken to a hospital in Newark and an autopsy will be performed today.
The body was discovered at about 9 a.m. after a patron notified the manager of a foul odor and a mass of flies swarming around the trunk of a car in the back row of a large parking lot at the Huck Finn Diner on Morris Avenue in Union, several officials said.
Investigators believe the car, a silver Acura, had been parked in the lot, overlooking a Union High School athletic field, for about six weeks, one official said. Apparently, the diner manager had mistakenly believed that the car belonged to someone he knew. He approached the car, found it unlocked, retrieved the registration and notified the police.
When the police ran a license plate check on the car, they were alerted that it was being sought by federal authorities because Mr. Ricci had borrowed it from a cousin before he disappeared, the official said.
In the trunk, F.B.I. agents found the decomposed body, face down, an investigator said. The man appeared to be wearing khaki slacks and had a grey garment - a jacket or a sweatshirt - pulled over his head, the investigator said.
Mr. Ricci's lawyer, who won an acquittal on the fraud charges against him, said there had been no real hope that he was alive and the discovery of the body provided some relief to the family. "It's not the time of the year when one needs to have things like this going on in your life," he said, "and the sooner that closure is obtained in situations like this, the better for all concerned."
Several investigators have suggested that Mr. Ricci may have been slain because he refused to accept a plea agreement in the case, in which his two co-defendants were International Longshoremen's Association officials, and that his Genovese family superiors were unhappy to have a mob captain sitting at the defense table with the union leaders.
Yesterday, one official said that investigators were examining Mr. Ricci's relationship with Tino Fiumara, a feared and mob-connected New Jersey dock boss. The official noted that on the day Mr. Ricci disappeared, Mr. Fiumara, who was recently convicted of failing to report contact with a mob fugitive, sought permission from his probation officer to leave the state.
A lawyer for Mr. Fiumara, Gerald L. Shargel, said, "The idea that Tino Fiumara had anything to do with this is preposterous."
31.) Body in car may solve a mobster mystery
Police make grisly find at Union diner weeks after defendant in extortion trial vanished
Author: MARK MUELLER STAR-LEDGER STAFF
Publication: Star-Ledger, The (Newark, NJ)
Publish Date: December 1, 2005
Word Count: 886
Document ID: 10E3D98F80BBFD00
A body found in the trunk of a car behind a Union County diner yesterday is believed to be that of a New Jersey mobster who vanished eight weeks ago in the middle of a Mafia-studded Brooklyn trial.
Lawrence Ricci, a reputed capo in the New Jersey branch of the Genovese crime family and a defendant in the fraud and extortion trial, disappeared in early October, sparking fears he had been killed by his gangland associates.
Yesterday, FBI agents told Ricci's family the culated among