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NEW YORK (AP) - A husband and wife who robbed gangland social clubs — sometimes forcing their victims to drop their pants — were rubbed out for humiliating the mob, a prosecutor said Wednesday at closing arguments at a racketeering trial.
"This was not just murder; this was a public execution," Assistant U.S. Attorney Paige Petersen said.
During the trial, the jury heard testimony that in the early 1990s, the couple enraged the defendant, Dominick "Skinny Dom" Pizzonia, then a reputed soldier with the Gambino organized crime family, by ripping off card games at his club in Queens and others in Little Italy and elsewhere.
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