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.
Most Italian mobsters have big, traditional Catholic funerals:
http://www.funeralplan.com/funeralplan/idea/infamous.html
One exception was Tony Galante, who was refused a Catholic funeral Mass by Terence Cardinal Cooke.
More honorable than Ted Kennedy.
from the Wikipedia entry on the Angiulo brothers:
>>Even among organized crime members Gennaro Angiulo was unliked. He was an egomaniac and had his boat “Gennaro” named after himself. He had a habit of referring to Boston Police Department officers as “Irish pieces of s-—”, and he was even more obsessed than most mobsters with possessing money. The FBI had been after him since the early 1960’s when they planted an illegal bug in a bar he owned on Tremont Street. Gennaro Angiulo was granted parole and was released from federal prison on September 14, 2007. He was arrested in 1983 at his North End hangout, then convicted three years later on racketeering charges. Angiulo was brought down after the FBI planted bugging devices in his headquarters, with the help of FBI informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Steven Flemmi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiulo_Brothers
File under “Didn’t know he was still alive.”
The Herald reported on Aug 14 that Jerry was “nearing death”
>>Former longtime Boston Mafia godfather Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo was near death yesterday from kidney failure, sources told the Herald. The 90-year-old ex-mobster from Nahant has been on weekly dialysis treatments, sources said, and was hospitalized in Lynn where he was surrounded by family. A call to Union Hospital in Lynn last night to check on Angiulo’s condition was referred to the intensive-care unit. There, a medical official said the hospital was not allowed to discuss patients’ cases.
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090814ex-boston_capo_jerry_angiulo_reported_near_death/
LOL! This mobster was an altar boy compared to Teddy and his klan. Let’s hope they are both heaidng to Dante’s Inferno.
Howie Carr has referred to Teddy’s clan as “The Kennedy Crime Family” :)
Rac,
Although Jerry Angiulo was first listed on Howie Carr’s 18 August 2009 Death Pool...the only winner was the person who picked Teddy K.....I don’t think there’s more than a single winner for every pool. I supppose Howie will do another pool Monday or Tuesday...haven’t heard one way or the other.
It is important to note that Bush Senior (41) was too frail to attend Kennedy’s Memorial service.
Anyway, for those who missed it, here (once again), is the Howie Carr Show 8-18-2009 Death Pool:
* = “Quick Pick” supplied to caller
1. Jerry Angiulo (former Boston Mafia Underboss)
2. Rev. Billy Graham
3. Patrick Swayze
4. Senator Ted Kennedy
5. Elizabeth Taylor
6. Tim Guetner
7. B.B. King
8. Helen Thomas
9. Florence Henderson
10. Michael Vick
11. Senator Robert Byrd
12. James Arness
13. Andy Rooney
14. James Garner
15. * Kirk Douglas
16. * Olivia de Havilland
17. Barbara Walters
18. Wilford Brimley
19. Jean Kennedy Smith (Last of the Kennedy Siblings)
20. Jack La Lane
21. Sargent Shriver
22. Vern Troyer (Mini-Me)
23. Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
24. Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC)
25. Andy Griffith
26. John Goodman
27. Howie Carr
28. John Wooden
29. Johnnie Peske (Former Red Sox)
30. Art Linkletter
31. Bob Crane (former Mass State Treasurer)
32. George Stienbrenner
33. * Peter Graves
34. Dick Cheney
35. Queen Elizabeth Windsor
36. Harry Morgan (90+)
37. Russel Johnson (Last man standing,”The Professor” on “Gilligan’s Island”)
38. Mike Wallace
39. * Jack Klugman
40. Tony Bennet
41. Robert Culp (”I Spy”)
42. Phyllis Diller
43. Furlyn Husky
44. Annette Funicello
45. Senator Chris Dodd
46. Ernest Borgnine (”Mchale’s Navy”)
47. Ryan O’Neal
48. Nancy Reagan
49. Jerry Lewis
50. Fats Domino
51. Joan Rivers
52. Ariel Sharon
53. Kevin White (Former Mayor of Boston)
54. Betty White
55. George H.W. Bush - 41
oh that’s right we haven’t gotten to the death pool with Ted K as the winner yet! thanks for mentioning that. Whomever picked Jerry A. is out of luck I guess.
I missed the last one. Someone picked Howie? What was his reaction?
Woot!
Being 3rd generation Italian descent I say pox on all mafioso and spit on their murderous, criminal deeds. They are the scumbuckets of Italian blood.....Tasbards all...
Wow, two prominent figures in Boston crime families dead in one week.
Oops - sorry Jerry for lumping you in with “Uncle Ted”.
Perhaps you have to be Roman Catholic to understand how such people as mobsters receive traditional Catholic funerals. Looking from the outside in, it sends a confusing message. It can be interpreted in such a way that repentance is not required. God shows no partiality, but it has the appearance that if one is rich and powerful, he doesn’t have to worry about repentance.
What does that tell you?
Will he be getting full-on press coverage for his funeral and burial ? At least he’s a tad more respectable than a certain other fella...
Tells me I should get busy whoring.
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