The Mafia forgives and forgets — for a price!
The mobbed-up owner of a posh Staten Island eatery was nearly whacked for fooling around with a wiseguy’s wife — but dodged the bullet after ponying up a $50,000 “tax” instead. By JOSH MARGOLIN and KATE SHEEHY, NY Post
“They wanted to take him to the basement of the restaurant and kill him,” recalled the cuckolded hubby, low-level Bonanno associate Salvatore Volpe, of the nearly rubbed-out restaurateur while on the stand in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.
The eatery owner — only identified as “Anthony” of Staten Island’s Trattoria Romana — was an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family of New Jersey
