The lawyer in charge of liquidating the assets of Sindona's fraudulently collapsed financial empire was himself liquidated in Milan in 1979 by a small-time Italo-American mafioso (Stajano 1991).

QUESTION: The word 'liquidated' here signals dark humor — the liquidation of assets becomes literal liquidation of a person. Worth noting the deliberate wordplay.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 413