Genovese Mobster Anthony Romanello Accused of Punching Restaurateur to Collect Gambling Debt
An 86-year-old mobster is accused of shaking down Shuqeri 'Bruno' Selimaj and attacking him inside Lincoln Square Steak restaurant in Manhattan in 2017.
DailyMail.com cameras spotted Romanello headed into Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday with his wife wearing a blue windbreaker. Also seen, Genovese crime family soldier Joseph Chelso. who is alleged to taken part of the assault.
According to the Post, Selimaj recalled on Wednesday: 'Rom kept saying, 'I'd like to punch you' … I said, 'You have no guts to punch me. A few seconds later, he punched me.'
Selimaj also testified that he then informed the two men that they had been recorded on his restaurant's security camera, with Romanello telling Regan: 'Let's get out of here.'
Romanello's lawyer Jerry McMahon told the court that Selimaj had insulted him, saying he was a 'washed up Italian' that 'had no balls' and 'was nothing'.
Hong Kong Man Falls 5 Floors in Effort to Avoid Paying Gambling Debt
A Hong Kong man suffered multiple injuries from a fall on Wednesday after he tried to escape captors who had allegedly held him over a HK$2 million (US$255,832) football gambling debt.
The 23-year-old man attempted to climb out of a fifth-floor industrial building window, but fell onto the first-floor podium.
Emergency personnel were called to Yue Fung Industrial Building on Chai Wan Kok Street in Tsuen Wan at around 5.30am, after police were alerted to the incident by a passer-by who discovered the injured man.
- Nagesh Rath, Gambling911.com
