Federal prosecutor: Couple ‘executed' for disrespecting mob

NEW YORK - A husband and wife who robbed gangland social clubs in the early 1990s - sometimes forcing their victims to drop their pants - were brutally killed for humiliating the mob, a prosecutor said Wednesday at closing arguments at a federal racketeering trial.

“This was not just murder; this was a public execution,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Paige Petersen.

Defense attorney Joseph R. Corozzo Jr., in his closing, argued that the evidence was too weak to prove his client, Dominick “Skinny Dom” Pizzonia, “had anything to do with these murders.”