Arthur Mondella

In February 2015, the unassuming facade of a family-owned cherry factory in Brooklyn, New York, became the scene of a shocking discovery and a personal tragedy. Arthur Mondella, the 57-year-old male owner of Dell's Maraschino Cherries, a business that had been in his family for generations, ended his own life as investigators closed in on a secret he had hidden beneath the factory floor. The business, a major supplier to national restaurant chains, was known in the Red Hook neighborhood as a leg ...

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