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Mob 'Acid' Hitman Gets Life Behind Bars

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 18, 2009 2:55 AM CDT

(Newser) – A mob hitman who used acid to melt his victims' bodies has been sentenced to life, reports the New York Daily News. Charles Carneglia smirked in a Brooklyn courtroom as he listened to statements from his four victims' relatives, including one who called him an "animal" with a "dark soul." Carneglia "led a profane life; his sole role in the Gambino family was to kill and dispose of bodies," said the prosecutor. "He relished the job." Carneglia claimed "liar after liar" testified against him.

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Charles Carneglia's mug shot. (AP Photo/Manhattan District Attorney's Office, File)

Killer Charles Carneglia is captured in this 1991 surveillance photo strolling with John "Junior" Gotti on the streets of New York. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of New York)

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