Corpse found in water identified as mob family member

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A corpse wearing cement overshoes and found in the waters off Brooklyn over the weekend has been identified as a member of a notorious local mob family, police said Tuesday. The body of Carmine Carini, 35, was found Saturday near East 58th Street and Avenue U near his residence in Mill Basin - with a cinderblock brick bound to his legs by an electrical cord and his body wrapped in a blue tarp and sealed with duct tape. "The victim was a reputed mobster's son," said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce at a press conference Tuesday. "His father had the O-C [Organized Crime] ties, not him. Right now, we're in an active investigation to see who was in his life at the time." Carini was identified ...

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