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Bartolomeo “Bobby Glasses” Vernace

Bartolomeo “Bobby Glasses” Vernace

A powerful mafia boss  who sits on the Gambino crime family’s ruling panel helped in a double  murder decades ago because of a simple spilled drink in a smoky Queens tavern, prosecutors said today.

Bartolomeo “Bobby Glasses” Vernace — now a 63-year-old Gambino capo who sits on the crime family’s ruling commission — took up arms with colleagues against a pair of bar owners who they “murdered in cold blood” at a Woodhaven tavern in 1981.

read rest  By Mitchel MadduxNew York Post