A horrific video captured the moment an elderly man was struck by a New York City Department of Transportation truck and decapitated as he crossed the street. The man was later identified as a former member of the Genovese crime family and known as "Tony Cheesecake," according to law enforcement sources who spoke to the New York Post. 'He spent his life looking over his shoulder ...' Anthony Conigliaro was 86 years old and living by himself in a small Bay Ridge apartment when a city truck plowed into him as he walked across a crosswalk in Brooklyn on Wednesday at about 3:30 p.m. Gruesome video surfaced on social media and TMZ showing the man being struck and then his decapitated head lying the street afterward. The Post then reported that the victim had a criminal past tied to the Genovese crime family. “He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” said a police source to the Post. Conigliaro worked in the wholesale cheesecake industry before he was convicted of racketeering conspiracy after the feds accused him of being a loan shark for the crime family in 2005. He received a 13-month sentence after a guilty plea. He was also arrested for criminal usury in 1999 and for grand larceny in 2009. People who live in the area of the accident said the crosswalk was a dangerous one. "Especially the walk sign. It turns on but by the time you're in the middle of the road, then it's gone. Somebody who is disabled or somebody who cannot walk fast- it's really really dangerous for them," said Samia Haq to News 12 Brooklyn. A mob lawyer who represented Conigliaro and also called him a friend said that he focused on the dessert business after his time in prison. “Later on in life he became known as Tony the Dessert Man,” said Mathew Mari. “He was a kind gentle soft spoken very quiet guy. Always trying to help people.”A neighbor who didn't know about the man's criminal past remembered him as a nice person. “We miss him. Everybody misses him,” the man said. The driver of the truck, who is 31 years old, appeared to be completely devastated by the incident, and the video captured him rocking back and forth as one bystander tried to console him. “Now we know why that DOT guy was crying ... he’s probably asking for witness protection,” one source said to the Post. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

During an appearance on "All-In," former President Donald Trump suggested that noncitizens who graduate from college should be allowed to remain in the U.S. after graduating. "I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card, to be able" to remain in the U.S., Trump indicated, noting that this would include "junior colleges too." 'Wrong.'But some Republicans, including GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, have pushed back against the proposed policy."Wrong," Roy tweeted, adding in another post, "1) our nation is a crap-show of unknown inhabitants after open borders, so secure first - 2) we have record foreign born as it is, 3) college mostly overrated anti-American garbage, 4) not all degrees / jobs are same, 5) stop paying people not to work / train Americans."Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky also disagreed with Trump's position."A two year degree in political science should NOT grant you legal U.S. residency. I'm for legal immigration. We should welcome skilled people who can strengthen our republic & who subscribe to the values enshrined in our Constitution. But this ain't it!" Massie declared. "I think he's politicking. His statement was an effort to endear himself to Nikki Haley voters, the Chamber of Commerce, west coast tech CEOs, and some segment of immigrants. The danger is many neocon republicans would do this in Congress in exchange for their war priorities," Massie wrote in another post. — (@) South Carolina State Rep. Adam Morgan — who recently lost a Republican primary for U.S. House to Trump-backed incumbent U.S. Rep. William Timmons — also disapproved of Trump's proposal."The insanity we've seen on college campuses lately makes me really want to give them all green cards… Hard pass," Morgan tweeted. "Also we KNOW Chinese spies (and likely spies from other nations) enroll in our universities. And not even limiting it to hard sciences or something useful? Baffling. This is a new frontier of 'open borders,'" he added.The Associated Press reported that Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, "President Trump has outlined the most aggressive vetting process in U.S. history, to exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges. He believes, only after such vetting has taken place, we ought to keep the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America. This would only apply to the most thoroughly vetted college graduates who would never undercut American wages or workers."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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