Gennaro Angiulo: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[North End, Boston|North End]], [[MassachusettsBoston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.]]

| death_place = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, U.S.

| allegiance = [[AngiuloPatriarca Brotherscrime family]]

| occupation = [[MobsterCrime boss]]

'''Gennaro JayJoseph''' "'''Jerry'''" '''Angiulo Sr.''' ({{IPA-|it|dʒenˈnaːro ˈandʒulo}}; March 20, 1919 – August 29, 2009)<ref>Reppetto, ''Bringing Down the Mob'', p. 247</ref><ref name="AP">{{cite web |url=http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO123100/ |title=Former mob underboss Gennaro Angiulo dies |date=August 30, 2009 |work=[[The Associated Press]] |accessdateaccess-date=2009-09-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901200224/http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO123100/ |archivedatearchive-date=2009-09-01 }}</ref> was an [[Italian Americans|Italian-American]] New England mob [[underbossmobster]] who rose throughto the Mafiaposition underof [[Raymond L. S. Patriarcaunderboss]] in the [[Patriarca crime family]] of New England under [[Raymond L. HeS. Patriarca]]. Angiulo was convicted of [[racketeering]] in 1986 and was in jailimprisoned until being released in 2007.<ref name="wbur">{{cite web|url=http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/30/obit-angiulo|title=One-Time Boston Mafia Boss Gennaro Angiulo Dead At 90|last=Brown|first=Steve|date=August 30, 2009|publisher=wbur.org|accessdateaccess-date=2009-09-01}}</ref> OneAccording to a member of the [[Angiulo Brothers]], Angiulohe was "probably the last very significant Mafia boss in Boston’s[[Boston]]’s history".<ref name="Globe">{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/08/31/gennaro_jerry_angiulo_90_new_england_mob_underboss/|title=Gennaro 'Jerry' Angiulo, 90, New England mob underboss|last=Murphy|first=Shelly|date=August 31, 2009 |work=[[The Boston Globe]]|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|accessdateaccess-date=2009-09-01}}</ref>

Gennaro J. Angiulo was born in 1919 to Italian immigrants Cesare and Giovannina "Jeannie" (née FemianiFimiani) Angiulo, who owned a [[mom-and-pop|small]] grocery store. He grew up with his siblings Nicolo, Donato, Francesco, Antonio, Michele and James. Even though he was from the North End neighborhood, he graduated from [[Boston English High]] School in 1936, where his ambition was to attend [[Suffolk Law School]] and become a criminal lawyer.<ref>Lehr and O'Neill, ''Black mass'', p. 113</ref> Gennaro Angiulo enlisted in the [[U.S. Navy]] at the beginning of [[World War II]] and served 4 years in the [[Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II|Pacific theater]]; he achieved the rank of Chief [[Boatswain's Mate (United States Navy)|Boatswain's Mate]].<ref name="Globe" /> Upon completion of his service, he moved back to the North End of Boston. He had a regular table in the back room of an Italian dinery called Francesca's Restaurant on North Washington Street in [[North End, Boston]].

The Angiulo brothers who had only minor previous involvement in crime realized that as a result of convictions of previous operators there was an opening for numbers game operation. They offered small business people such as barbers and convenience store owners the opportunity to get a wholesale discount on bets on individual numbers. The Angiulo brothers were able to build a network converting these businesses into points of sale and bookies. This succeeded in attracting the interest of the Mafia and the Angiulo brothers offered the Patriarca family a cut rather than resist them.

The Angiulo brothers, who owned nightclubs, were publicly named as members of Cosa Nostra, more commonly known as the [[American Mafia]]. In 1963, Gennaro's reputation for being a shrewd businessman, along with his successful racketeering, led to Patriarca appointing him underboss of the [[Providence, Rhode Island]]-based–based [[Patriarca crime family]].<ref name="Globe" /> Angiulo later headed up Boston's underworld from the 1960s to the 1980s. He and his brothers ran the criminal organization out of their headquarters at 98 [[Prince Street]] in the North End, the neighborhood in which he grew up.<ref name="wbur" />

In 1981, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) placed wiretaps in the headquarters and at a nearby social club, located at 51 North Margin Street, for three months.<ref name="Globe" /> It was later revealed in a federal court that rival gangsters [[Whitey Bulger]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/bulger.htm|title=Bulger's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert|work=Federal Bureau of Investigation|accessdateaccess-date=2009-09-02|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901184517/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/bulger.htm|archivedatearchive-date=2009-09-01}}</ref> and [[Stephen Flemmi]] drew a diagram for FBI agents telling them where to plant the bugs.<ref name="Globe" /> As Angiulo was being taken in handcuffs from the restaurant on September 19, 1983, he yelled, "I'll be back before my pork chops get cold."<ref name="Globe" />

In an [[affidavit]] filed in federal court in 2004, he wrote that he was in poor health and his term was "tantamount to an illegal death sentence". Angiulo, who had been incarcerated at the federal prison hospital in [[Federal Medical Center, Devens|Devens]], was paroled on September 10, 2007. He had been undergoing [[Kidney dialysis|dialysis]] treatment since his release while living at his waterfront home in [[Nahant]]. Prior to his death, he was spending time with his wife, Barbara,<ref>{{Cite withweb whom|title=Boston hemafia hadleader, three children88, Jasonto Brion,be Gennarofreed Jayfrom Jrprison |url=https://www.,telegram.com/story/news/local/worcester/2007/07/08/boston-mafia-leader-88-to/52855680007/ and|access-date=2024-03-22 Barbara|website=The JayWorcester AngiuloTelegram & Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> with whom he had three children.

Angiulo died on August 29, 2009, at the [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] of [[kidney failure]] from kidney disease. His funeral was at the Joseph A. Langone Jr. Funeral Home in Boston's North End.<ref name="Globe" />

==In popularepopular culture==

* {{cite book|last=Dick Lehr|first= Gerard O'Neill|title=Black mass: the Irish mob, the FBI, and a devil's deal |publisher=PublicAffairs|year=2000|isbn=978-1-891620-40-9|url=https://archive.org/details/blackmassirishmo00lehr|url-access=registration|quote=Gennaro Angiulo racketeering.|accessdateaccess-date=2009-09-02}}

* {{cite book|last=Reppetto|first=Thomas|title=Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|edition=reprint|isbn=978-0-8050-8659-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-AFhs0RrKIC&dqq=Gennaro+Angiulo+eleven|accessdateaccess-date=2009-09-02}}

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