{"id":5118,"date":"2011-11-25T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:11:03","slug":"morning-read-3-american-crime-boss-found-dead-in-quebec-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/25\/morning-read-3-american-crime-boss-found-dead-in-quebec-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read 3:  American crime boss found dead in Quebec river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/527941.html\">Associated Press<\/a> is reporting that Salvatore Montagna, an alleged American mafia boss, has turned up dead in the L&#8217;Assomption River north of Montreal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI once called him the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family &#8211;  prompting one of New York&#8217;s tabloids to call him the &#8220;Bambino Boss&#8221;  because of his rise to power in his mid-30s. Nicknamed &#8220;Sal The Iron  Worker,&#8221; he owned and operated a successful steel business in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Montagna&#8217;s  death is the latest in a series of Mafia-related killings and  disappearances over the last two years. He was considered a contender to  take over the decimated Rizzuto family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Montagna was born in Montreal, raised in Sicily, but was active in the United States.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/527941.html\"> Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting that Salvatore Montagna, an alleged American mafia boss, has turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,4872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}