The NYC man killed in a traffic accident was reportedly a former mafia boss

A New York City man who died last week after being decapitated by a truck while crossing a New York street has been identified as a former captain in the Genovese crime family.

New York police told Fox News Digital that the victim was identified as Antonio Conigliaro. Conigliaro, 86, who was known by the nicknames “Tony Cakes” and “Tony the Dessert Man,” formerly served as a capo for the Mafia family, the New York Post reported.

He died on June 12 when he was hit by a city Department of Transportation truck in Brooklyn.

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NYPD investigators at the scene where Antonio Conigliaro was struck and killed by a city transit truck. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)

“He has been looking over his shoulder all his life, but he forgot to look left and right before crossing the street,” a police source said.

Authorities said Conigliaro was crossing Dahlgren Place, ignoring a “no walking” sign at a marked crosswalk, when the 31-year-old driver of a Ford F550 truck turned on a green light and struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver was still at the scene of the accident and no arrests were made, police said.

Conigliaro, who worked for years in the cake wholesale business, sold candy throughout the New York metropolitan area and operated an Italian ice cream and gelato stand in Little Italy, was charged by federal prosecutors in 2005 with being a soldier for the Genovese crime family.

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Antonio Conigliaro, 86, a former mafia member, was killed on June 12 when he was hit by a truck, police said. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital; obtained from the New York Post)

Conigliaro worked for the family as a loan shark, prosecutors said. He eventually pleaded guilty to organized crime conspiracy and was sentenced to 13 months in prison, court records show, the Post reported.

The former foot soldier was also arrested on charges of criminal usury in 1999 and aggravated theft in 2006, law enforcement sources told the newspaper.

Mathew Mari, a Mafia lawyer who counted Conigliaro among his friends and clients, told the newspaper that Conigliaro became successful in the dessert business after serving his prison sentence.

“Later in life he became known as Tony the dessert man,” Mari said. “He was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken, very quiet guy. He was always trying to help people.”

NYPD officers at the scene where Antonio Conigliaro was fatally struck by a truck in Brooklyn last week. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)

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The Genovese crime family is one of the Five Families, an Italian-American syndicate that has long dominated organized crime in New York City. The other members are the Gambino, Lucchese, Bonanno and Colombo families.