by Pogo The Clown » Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:27 am
Looks like it was over a loansharking debt.
A man was charged Saturday with gunning down a member of the Gambino crime family outside a hospital in a $50,000 contract killing ordered to settle a loan-sharking dispute.
Ernesto Rodriguez, 59, was arrested Friday night while hiding in a house, said Capt. John Hill, Manhattan chief of detectives.
Rodriguez was charged with attempted murder and assault in the April 11 shooting of “Handsome” Jack Giordano, a reputed captain in the Gambino family.
A bullet severed Giordano’s spinal cord and he is paralyzed from the neck down.
Another mobster ordered the hit because Giordano, 49, was pressing him for repayment of a loan, Hill said. “They were trying to get Jack off their back.”
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/ ... mafia-hit/
Looks like it was over a loansharking debt.
[quote]A man was charged Saturday with gunning down a member of the Gambino crime family outside a hospital in a $50,000 contract killing ordered to settle a loan-sharking dispute.
Ernesto Rodriguez, 59, was arrested Friday night while hiding in a house, said Capt. John Hill, Manhattan chief of detectives.
Rodriguez was charged with attempted murder and assault in the April 11 shooting of “Handsome” Jack Giordano, a reputed captain in the Gambino family.
A bullet severed Giordano’s spinal cord and he is paralyzed from the neck down.
Another mobster ordered the hit because Giordano, 49, was pressing him for repayment of a loan, Hill said. “They were trying to get Jack off their back.”[/quote]
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/aug/20/suspect-arrested-in-mafia-hit/