Cops See Mob Link In Cleaver Attack At Italian-American Club

060909marty.jpg The manager of an Italian-American social club in New Rochelle almost lost a hand Sunday night because he may have owed the mob money, police suspect. Lt. Christopher Hearle tells CBS2 that 42-year-old club manager Vincent Zarcone "owed a substantial amount of money, and apparently Mr. Calise was unhappy with the payment schedule that had been worked out. Basically, [he] severed his right hand with a meat cleaver." Christopher Calise is accused of attacking Zarcone with the cleaver while an accomplice, Maurice Mann, held him in a bear hug. (Whatever happened to just wrapping a telephone cord around the guy's neck until his toupee falls off?) A patrolman caught the suspects as they fled the scene in a rented Cadillac, and Zarcone, who has a 2005 conviction for promoting gambling, required surgery to get his hand reattached. Now the FBI's Organized Crime task force is looking into the club, but Zarcone's cleaning lady insists he's a good fellow, telling CBS2, "He works downstairs, the computer."

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What am I, some sort of schmuck on wheels?

I never agreed to three points above the vig.

you need some new material.

These double and triple posts are, to say the least, annoying. I have been commenting on them for months, trying to get Gothamist to eliminate them. Every photo site that I know of has software that will reject duplicate photos that are being imported. It's got to be even easier with language. That said I will look for newer synonyms, euphemisms and/or alternatives.

ah, thanks for explaining.

i too have written them to inquire about the commenting problems, either double/triple posts or one's that never show up. since i'm equipped with a big mouth but no programming expertise, i'll just have to suffer through it.

good luck with your new synonyms, etc.

a rented Cadillac...lol

Keeping to script, that's all they were doing.

"Zarcone's cleaning lady insists he's a good fellow." Did she mean Goodfella?

Cleaver! Written by Chris "Tennessee" Moltisanti.

A major recession:
When the only people still in the business of making unsecured loans for outrageous terms is the mob.

EY! CAPICE! [doing the menacing Sicilian-wagging-the-pinched-fingertips gesture]

There's a movie here, right? The hand begins to think for itself and goes on a murderous rampage of revenge? And makes love to Linda Hamilton?

Fuck him in the ear...fuck him in the other ear

ahhhh finally this blog is making me laugh again

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