This Still Happens?

Things I’d rather not know about include extrajudicial mafia justice:

The Gambino organized-crime family, furious at the shooting of one of its bosses, is calling for a sit-down with the rival Bonannos to decide the fate of the ex-cop who allegedly pulled the trigger, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The Gambinos are absolutely livid because the victim, Carmine Sciandra, who runs the Top Tomato produce market, is a top captain in the Mafia family and was once considered a successor to “teflon don” John Gotti, the sources said.

Both residents and law-enforcement officials fear that unless the dispute is resolved, it could lead to war between the two families.

Sciandra was shot in the belly outside the market on Dec. 7 by former cop Patrick Balsamo, who brought along two Bonanno thugs to use as muscle, police said.

Balsamo was angry because he believed Carmine’s brother, Salvatore, groped the cop’s 18-year-old daughter, Maria, a College of Staten Island student. The teen had worked as a cashier at the market before being fired.

Swinging a baseball bat, Balsamo smashed several windows before a melee erupted. During the fracas, the ex-cop drew a gun and blasted Sciandra, police said.

You may be thinking, “Eliot Ness wouldn’t allow these produce-pimping monsters get away with this!” but apparently the feds are watching them:

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn and the FBI’s organized crime task force are watching to see if any mobsters retaliate.

The feds fear a mob war could erupt because the brazen attack on Sciandra was not approved by other bosses.

“This was a renegade act,” a police source said.

And yet, the Top Tomato Code of Silence stays intact:

At the time of the shooting, witnesses said that they heard a shot and saw Sciandra go down.

Then they saw several men with baseball bats chase a sedan out of the parking lot.

Top Tomato employees would say only, “I don’t know nothin’.”