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

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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By John Del Signore in News on June 9, 2009 11:51 AM

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NannyState

"Every time he tries to wipe his ass, he'll remember..."

Fritzdecat

ahhhh finally this blog is making me laugh again

Thank you commenters

rdsizzle

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

r1b2

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?

Think2wice

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

RevWaldo

A major recession:

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

Mr Mel

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

robingee

Cleaver! Written by Chris "Tennessee" Moltisanti.

Snoopy

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

maryjr

a rented Cadillac...lol

Snoopy

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

hotstepper

bad ass.

Mr Mel

Two in a row.

hotstepper

you need some new material.

Mr Mel

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.

hotstepper

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.