Body found in trunk ID'd as that of mobster

NEW YORK (AP) -- A body found last week in the trunk of a car parked behind a New Jersey diner has been identified as a mobster who vanished during his waterfront corruption trial, authorities said Wednesday.
Lawrence Ricci, a reputed Genovese family capo last seen Oct. 7, was shot in the back of head and in the back, authorities said.
His badly decomposed body was identified through dental records.
Ricci was acquitted in federal court in Brooklyn after he disappeared.
The 60-year-old had been accused of steering a dockworkers union contract to a mob-connected pharmaceutical company.
His body was discovered Nov. 30 in a car parked outside the Huck Finn Diner in Union, N.J.
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