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Post: They Just Don’t Make Mobs Like They Used To

Mobsters getting things done.

The New York Post hates having to spill precious ink reporting on sloppily done organized crime. Time was, being a mob hit man stood for something. These things were done nicely, quietly, in the proper location. No more:

This alleged hit man should have watched "The Godfather" a few more times to see how it's done.

Unlike Al Pacino's cool-headed Michael Corleone, suspected Albanian Mafia gangster Bajram Lajqi allegedly blew a planned hit on another gangster because he let his temper get the best of him.

Lajqi turned what might have been a quiet murder on a darkened New York street into a public spectacle in a crowded restaurant, according to an account filed by Brooklyn federal prosecutor Steven Tiscione.

"Alleged" manages to read like an insult there — you wish you could call yourself a hit man.

'Mob hit' is poorly executed [NYP]

Photo: Paramount Pictures