Angiulo brothers

Angiulo Brothers

Founded by	Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo
Founding location	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Years active	1960–1983
Territory	North End, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Ethnicity	Italian American
Membership (est.)	7
Activities	Murder, extortion, gambling, loan sharking, obstruction of justice
Allies	Patriarca crime family
Rivals	Winter Hill Gang

The Angiulo Brothers (Italian: [ˈandʒulo]; Antonio, July 4, 1925 – August 4, 1976, Donato, March 21, 1923 – May 3, 2009, Francesco, January 13, 1921 – May 30, 2015, Gennaro, March 20, 1919 – August 29, 2009, Michele, July 20, 1927 – November 26, 2006, Nicolo, March 4, 1916 – September 13, 1987 and James, 1939 – August 2, 2014), were the leading Italian-American crime group from Boston's North End, during the late 1960s until the mid 1980s. Also, the street crew extended into East Boston, Roxbury, Waltham, Newton, Watertown, parts of Revere, and all other predominity Italian American neighborhoods in Eastern Massachusetts. Their criminal organization was dubbed "In-Town," because one had to go in to town to visit the Angiulo Brothers.

As made men in the Patriarca crime family, they were placed in control of the racketeering throughout Massachusetts, until Irish Mob groups such as the Winter Hill Gang and the Charlestown Mob decided to run the rackets in their own neighborhoods. During this time Winter Hill Gang members Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi were informing on their Italian mob colleagues by allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to bug their headquarters during the early 1980s.

Nicolo Angiulo

• Vittore Nicolo "Nick" Angiulo was the first-born of the italian immigrants Cesare (1889 – 1951) and Giovannina (née Femiani) Angiulo (1893 – 1975). He was born on 4 March 1916, and married Janet Vincenza (Piccinni) Angiulo (1925 – 1985). He was alleged consigliere of the organization and he never went to trial because of illness. He died on September 13, 1987, from a kidney ailment, and his funeral took place on September 17 in the Boston's North End.

Gennaro Angiulo

• Gennaro Jay "Jerry" Angiulo Sr. was born in Boston’s North End on March 20, 1919. He grew up with his sister Stella Maria Angiulo Orlandella (1917 – 2007), and his late siblings, Nicolo, Francesco, Donato, Antonio, and Michele Angiulo. Gennaro Angiulo enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the beginning of World War II and served 4 years in the Pacific Theatre. He achieved the rank of Chief Boatswain's Mate. Upon completion of his service to the United States, he moved back to the North End of Boston. The FBI had been after him since the early 1960s. With the help of the FBI's own criminal informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, they were able to gain a great deal of incriminating information regarding Angiulo's racketeering operations. The FBI was able to successfully plant listening devices in a bar he owned on Tremont Street. He was arrested September 19, 1983, at his North End hangout, then convicted three years later on racketeering charges. Gennaro Angiulo was granted parole and was released from federal prison on September 10, 2007. He died from kidney failure at Massachusetts General Hospital on August 29, 2009. He married Barbara Lombard Angiulo, and he had two sons, Jason Brion (born 1957), Gennaro Jay Jr. (born 1971), and one daughter, Barbara Jay Angiulo (born 1977).

Francesco Angiulo

• Francesco J. "Frank" Angiulo, also known as "Frankie the Cat" was born on January 13, 1921. He served in the Merchant Marines in World War II and he was personally arrested by FBI agent John Connolly in 1983. He did not marry, and was a long-time companion of Laurie Naimo (1933 – 1998). Angiulo spent 14 years in prison because of racketeering and returned home in 2000. He died on May 30, 2015 at Massachusetts General Hospital heart failure.

Donato Angiulo

• Donato F. "Danny" Angiulo, also known as "Laughing Fox" was born on March 21, 1923. In 1956, he married Marguarite E. "Margo" (McMunn) Angiulo (1928 – 2005), from which he had a son, Caesar A. Angiulo (born 1957) and a daughter, Nina M. Angiulo Silk. He was freed from federal prison in 1997, after serving 11 years, and returned to his Medford home. He died on May 3, 2009 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after of heart failure.

Antonio Angiulo

• Antonio R. "Anco" Angiulo was born on July 4, 1925. He was the husband of Dorothy M. "Dottie" Angiulo (1930 – 2004). He died on August 4, 1976.

Michele Angiulo

• Michele A. "Mike" Angiulo was born on July 20, 1927. In 1952 he married Concetta E. "Connie" Capodilupo, and became the father of Michael J. (1951 – 1995) and Joseph M. Angiulo (1962 – 1994). He served three years in prison for gambling and died on November 26, 2006.

James Angiulo

• James William Angiulo, also known as "Jimmy Jones" was born in 1939. He died on August 2, 2014, in Cape Coral, Florida at 74 years old.

References

2. The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family by Gerard O'Neill and Dick Lehr, 1989

3. Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld by Howie Carr, 2011

External links

• Former Boston mob boss Jerry Angiulo dead at 90
• Frank Angiulo, former member of Mafia hierarchy, dies at 94