The threat was found on a Monday morning, tucked beneath the windshield wiper of a car that did not belong to the person who found it.
Armand Vesci, a De Luca Enterprises business partner of eleven years, had walked to his car in a midtown parking structure at 8:14 a.m. and found a plain white envelope with his name on the front in printed text. He had opened it, which was a mistake, but a human one, and read the contents, and called Marco before he had reached the elevator.
The note was short. Six lines, printed, no signature. It referenced Vesci’s current deal structure with De Luca Enterprises, with a specificity that confirmed the writer had access to information that was not publicly available. It referenced the timeline of their partnership. And at the bottom, separated from the bo
