New York Post

Burial paid for with a suitcase full of cash

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It’s a burial spot to die for — purchased in true mob style.

Slain Gambino boss Francesco “Franky Boy’’ Cali was laid to rest in a red-marble mausoleum with white pillars on Staten Island Tuesday — after his associates “came in with a suitcase on Saturday and paid my boss $45,000 in cash,’’ a gravedigge­r there told The Post.

“He’s up in the mausoleum, in the middle section,’’ the longtime worker said of Cali’s final resting place at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, pointing to the top of a sprawling hill where the murdered mob chief now occupies a space on the lower level of the two-tiered structure.

About three dozen longstemme­d white roses were scattered in front of Cali’s crypt, which bore a temporary white-tape label that read “FRANCESCO CALI 1965 2019.’’

The worker said that after Cali’s entombment, a small group of mourners walked to the parking area near the cemetery’s chapel and office.

“Some guy from ABC [News] was asking a question in the office. And [a] mob guy said, ‘Get the f--k out of here before I blow your f--king head off,’ ” the worker said, chuckling.

Near Cali’s crypt are the graves of two “family’’ cohorts: Gambino underbosse­s Frank DeCicco and Thomas Bilotti, both the victims of mob hits.

Also buried in the cemetery is Gambino boss Paul Castellano, who was gunned down outside Sparks Steak House in Midtown along with Bilotti, his driver, in 1985.

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