Posted on 08/29/2009 7:26:38 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, who ruled Boston’s Mafia with an iron fist for two decades, died today, sources have confirmed.
Angiulo suffered a broken hip earlier this month while fighting a losing battle with kidney failure.
The ex-gangster was 90 years old.
Angiulo had returned to his compound in Nahant upon his release from prison in 2007 after a 21-year stint behind bars for his 1986 conviction on federal racketeering, loansharking and illegal gambling charges.
The reign of the former New England La Cosa Nostra underboss was ended by his rivals in the South Boston Irish mob, James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi, who infamously helped the FBI bug the Mafia’s North End headquarters at 98 Prince St.
Flemmi is today serving life for multiple murders. Bulger, who turns 80 Thursday and is wanted for the serial slayings of 19 men and women, has been a fugitive since 1995. The FBI is offering a $2 million reward for information leading to his capture.
"He can't be dead! He owes me $13,000!"--Jerry Anguilo
Howie Carr list ping. Ding! Another death pool winner.
Oh, goody. He and Teddy can hold hands while falling through the earth together.
>>Angiulo had returned to his compound in Nahant
(shots of his Nahant house—I grew up in Nahant btw—from a helicopter)
“And we look down now upon the Angiulo compound as this massive funeral is about to take place...celebrities will take part in the memorial service...and the era of Mob Camelot comes to an end...”
So in some respects its been a good week
If his last name was Kennedy, he would be lying in state by now.
Will Zero be speaking at his funeral, too?
Wow, Kennedy and Anguilo in the same week.
Some sort of wheel has turned.
Anguilo upon learning one of his loansharking victims died:
‘He can’t be dead! He owes me $13,000!’
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“I don’t need tough guys, I need intelligent tough guys.”
Looks just like another organized crime thug!
This guy was featured in a couple of episodes of “Sopranos”.
Of course he was fictionalized as the old guy Tony went up to see about a particular “problem”.
The one episode was funny as hell. The old house was full of religious artifacts. The old maid daughter waited on the old mobster hand and foot. An elderly priest stopped in for tea.
Kinda like the Kennedys—using religion as a prop.
From Howie Carr’s WHITEY WORLD
http://thebrothersbulger.com/Gennaro%20Angiulo.htm
This is Gerry Angiulo, the “underboss” to Raymond L.S. Patriarca, “the Man” in Providence. In 1980, Angiulo was 63, doing business out of his family’s building on Prince Street, “The Doghouse.” Whitey Bulger owed him $245,000 in loans (with interest) that Angiulo had made to the Winter Hill Gang several years earlier, when the gang lost its shirt in the football-card racket. But Whitey had no intention of repaying the loan, because he knew, from his mobbed-up FBI agent Zip Connolly, that the feds were planning to put a bug in the Doghouse, which would result in long prison sentences for everyone in the Boston LCN.
Gerry Angiulo is 85 now (make that 90...and dead, Howie), and isn’t scheduled to be released from federal prison until May 2010 (again, dead), and his convict ID number is 03583-016. Until 1983, he ran the Mafia in Boston, and he was trying to teach his older son Jason the family business.
>>upon his release from prison in 2007
so yeah they let him out early...Howie’s book is a couple yrs old
LOL!!!
Quick match!
Ha! from the comments on Boston Herald site:
>>Wow!....Two prominent figures in Boston crime families dead in one week.
You don’t think Joe Kennedy didn’t do business with him.
At least this guy faced justice in the criminal courts. Another difference between him and Fat Ted is that at least guy was honest enough to admit he was a crook and a thug.
And served time.
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