Chapter 215

With 20 days left until the deadline, the old guard of the Valentino family had decided that Anthony Arcado would be their new leader. The younger faction had not yet made its decision.

A 'Meet and Greet' was arranged, with Don Jim Barbara, the head of the Staten Island Family. The location was secret, and Anthony Arcado was picked up by one of Barbara's men to escort him there. The meeting was held in an upscale Italian restaurant on a hill overlooking the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. While the meeting was going on, the entire building, and part of the hill that it was perched upon blew up. Everyone inside was incinerated in the blast. Federal, State City, and company investigators said the cause was a ruptured 6-inch natural gas line that ran under the site.

Joe Lombardo and Mike Caifano did not believe it for one second. Two Mafia Don's and a man that could have been the next Don of the Manhattan Family had perished in 10 days. These were not accident