Two men were shot execution-style inside a mortgage business on Staten Island Tuesday night, sources said.
The owner Michael Genovese and his colleague Carl Clark were in the office of Universal Merchant Funding in Midland Beach at around 6:30 p.m. when a masked man walked in and shot them both twice in the back of the head, law-enforcement sources said.
A former employee of the business who appeared at the building Tuesday night described Genovese as a “good guy” and “a little wild.”
“He knew how to run his business. He did things his way,” the employee, Devon Rocco, said, adding that Genovese was “a character.”
Reached at home Genovese’s wife said she had just received word of her husband’s death.
“I’m with my children right now and we’re grieving,” Ann Genovese said. “We don’t know anything right now.”
Clark was formerly an employee at the financial planning company Georgeson, where he was fired after blowing the whistle on a money scandal.
“He was one of a kind. The world is a darker place without him,” Clark’s friend Mike Buffo told The Post.
“As far as I know, as the whistle-blower, he was the state’s only witness.”
Cops were searching for one man who was seen leaving the establishment in a silver sedan after the killings.
Additional reporting by Tina Moore and Alex Taylor