{{Short description|American mobster (1919–2009)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Gennaro Angiulo | image = Gennaro Angiulo 1947.jpg | caption = Angiulo's May 31, 1947, mugshot | birth_name = Gennaro Joseph Angiulo | birth_date = {{birth date|1919|3|20}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|8|29|1919|3|20}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | allegiance = Patriarca crime family | other_names = "Jerry" | occupation = Crime boss | parents = Cesare Angiulo<br/>Giovannina Femiani | children = 3 | spouse = Barbara Lombard | criminal_status = Paroled/released in 2007 | criminal_penalty = Sentenced to 45 years in prison | criminal_charge = Racketeering, gambling, loan sharking, and obstruction of justice | years_active = 1963–1986 | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | allegiance = {{US}} | branch = {{navy|USA}} | service_years = 1941–1945 }} }} '''Gennaro Joseph''' "'''Jerry'''" '''Angiulo Sr.''' ({{IPA|it|dʒenˈnaːro ˈandʒulo}}; March 20, 1919 – August 29, 2009){{sfn |Reppetto |2007 |p=247}}<ref name="AP">{{cite web |date=August 30, 2009 |title=Former mob underboss Gennaro Angiulo dies |url=http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO123100/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901200224/http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO123100/ |archive-date=September 1, 2009 |access-date=September 2, 2009 |work=The Associated Press}}</ref> was an American mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Patriarca crime family of New England under Raymond L. S. Patriarca. He and his brothers oversaw the Boston, Massachusetts faction of the Patriarca family. Angiulo was convicted of racketeering in 1986 and was imprisoned until being released in 2007.<ref name="wbur">{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Steve |date=August 30, 2009 |title=One-Time Boston Mafia Boss Gennaro Angiulo Dead At 90 |url=http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/30/obit-angiulo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418155706/https://www.wbur.org/news/2009/08/30/obit-angiulo |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |access-date=September 1, 2009 |publisher=wbur.org}}</ref> According to Massachusetts State Police colonel Thomas J. Foley, Angiulo was "probably the last very significant Mafia boss in Boston’s history".<ref name="Globe">{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Shelly |date=August 31, 2009 |title=Gennaro 'Jerry' Angiulo, 90, New England mob underboss |url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/08/31/gennaro_jerry_angiulo_90_new_england_mob_underboss/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091117202615/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/08/31/gennaro_jerry_angiulo_90_new_england_mob_underboss?page=1 |archive-date=November 17, 2009 |access-date=September 1, 2009 |work=The Boston Globe |publisher=The New York Times Company}}</ref>
==Early life== Gennaro J. Angiulo was born in 1919 to Italian immigrants Cesare and Giovannina "Jeannie" (née Fimiani) Angiulo, who owned the "Dog House", a mom-and-pop convenience store and luncheonette on Prince Street in the North End of Boston.<ref name="Angiulo brothers">{{cite news |last=Sweeney |first=Emily |date=April 5, 2022 |title=Angiulo brothers, Whitey Bulger's family, other mobsters appear in newly released 1950 census records |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/05/metro/angiulo-brothers-whitey-bulgers-family-other-mobsters-appear-newly-released-1950-census-records/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220405172453/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/05/metro/angiulo-brothers-whitey-bulgers-family-other-mobsters-appear-newly-released-1950-census-records/ |archive-date=April 5, 2022 |work=The Boston Globe}}</ref> He grew up with his siblings Nicolo, Donato, Francesco, Antonio, Michele and James.<ref name="Globe" /> 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.{{sfn |Lehr |O'Neill |2000 |p=113}} Instead, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the beginning of World War II and served four years in the Pacific theater, achieving the rank of Chief Boatswain's Mate.<ref name="Johnson-2009">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=O'Ryan |date=September 3, 2009 |title=Gennaro Angiulo's military burial raises eyebrows, ire |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/09/03/gennaro-angiulos-military-burial-raises-eyebrows-ire/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418193751/https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/09/03/gennaro-angiulos-military-burial-raises-eyebrows-ire/ |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref> Upon completion of his service, he returned to the North End of Boston.
==Criminal career== Gennaro's brothers, who by now were all involved in Boston's criminal underworld, recruited him into their circle. Efforts by local authorities to arrest and prosecute operators of the "Italian lottery" created an opening for them; the Angiulo brothers found local businesses willing to serve as fronts for their bookies and gave them "discounts" on the bets in return, then reinvested their profits into legitimate enterprises such as nightclubs to launder them. The dominant Patriarca crime family co-opted the brothers, inducting them as members of the family and taking a cut of their action.
After the Kefauver hearings began in 1950, Joseph Lombardi, a senior member of the Mafia in Boston, ordered all bookmaking operations in the city to cease or to operate without a central layoff bank and without police protection, fearing the publicity from the hearings may expose his rackets. As a result, bookmakers lost the protection of the Mafia but gained freedom to operate independently.<ref name="Succession of Power">{{cite web |last=May |first=Allan |title=The Providence Mob: Succession of Power |url=https://www.crimelibrary.org/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/providence_mob/5.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418013236/https://www.crimelibrary.org/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/providence_mob/5.html |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=Crime Library}}</ref> Angiulo obtained Lombardi's permission to enter the bookmaking rackets in 1951.<ref name="New England Crime Family">{{cite web |last=May |first=Allan |title=The Providence Mob: New England Crime Family |url=https://www.crimelibrary.org/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/providence_mob/2.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418200513/https://www.crimelibrary.org/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/providence_mob/2.html |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=Crime Library}}</ref> The Mafia's overreaction to the Kefauver hearings, which ultimately had little effect on organized crime in Boston, allowed Angiulo to take control of the city's newly independent gambling operations.<ref name="Succession of Power"/>
By the late 1950s, Angiulo was being extorted by the ''mafioso'' Ilario "Larry Baione" Zannino.<ref name="Zannino">{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Howie |author-link=Howie Carr |date=September 6, 200 |title=Whitey World A-Z: Ilario Zannino (1920-1995) |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/09/06/whitey-world-a-z-ilario-zannino-1920-1995/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250419000327/https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/09/06/whitey-world-a-z-ilario-zannino-1920-1995/ |archive-date=April 19, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref> To end the shakedown, Angiulo paid $50,000 to Raymond "the Man" Patriarca, the boss of the Patriarca crime family in Providence, Rhode Island, in exchange for being inducted as a "made" member of the family, agreeing to pay an additional $100,000 per year. The payment allowed Angiulo to become a full-fledged member of the Mafia without having to commit a murder, which is typically required for prospective ''mafiosi''. The relationship between Angiulo and Patriarca was strictly financial. Although Angiulo was not popular or well-respected in Providence, he retained the protection of Patriarca due to his high-earning status.<ref name="Succession of Power"/>
In around 1962, one mobster, Vincent "Fat Vinny" Teresa, drew the ire of Angiulo when he beat up an associate of Joseph Paterno, a New Jersey-based ''caporegime'' in the Gambino crime family. Paterno complained to Angiulo, who never like Teresa and solicited to have him killed over the beating. Only the intervention of Patriarca saved Teresa's life. Teresa became a confidential informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) afterwards.<ref name="Teresa cooperated">{{cite web |last=Valin |first=Edmond |title=Vinnie Teresa cooperated much earlier than he let on |url=https://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/vinteresa.html#t4 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220831090859/https://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/vinteresa.html#t4 |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |work=The American Mafia}}</ref>
=== Underboss === The Angiulo brothers were first publicly named as members of the Mafia during the Valachi hearings in 1963.<ref name="Prosecutors Hope To Expose Mafia">{{cite news |last=Butterfield |first=Fox |date=February 18, 1985 |title=U.S. Prosecutors Hope To Expose A 'Mafia' At Coming Boston Trial |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/18/us/us-prosecutors-hope-to-expose-a-mafia-at-coming-boston-trial.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240308170011/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/18/us/us-prosecutors-hope-to-expose-a-mafia-at-coming-boston-trial.html |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Gennaro's reputation for being a shrewd businessman, along with his successful racketeering, led to Patriarca appointing him underboss of the Patriarca family.<ref name="Globe" /> From this perch, Angiulo headed up Boston's underworld from the 1960s to the 1980s.<ref name="wbur" /> As family underboss, he oversaw all Mafia rackets between Boston and Worcester.<ref name="Globe" /> Angiulo's closest ''capo'' was Zannino, who Angiulo relied on to provide "muscle" to the Boston faction of the family.{{sfn |Lehr |O'Neill |2000 |p=11}}
Gennaro and his brothers ran the criminal organization out of their headquarters, the "Dog House", located at 98 Prince Street in the North End,<ref name="wbur" /> which was the location of the Angiulo family home and former premises of the luncheonette operated by their parents in the 1940s.<ref name="A Deal with the Devil">{{cite episode |title=A Deal with the Devil |series=Bloody Boston |network=Reelz |date=April 5, 2022 |season=1 |number=2}}</ref><ref name="Last link to mob family">{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Howie |author-link=Howie Carr |date=June 2, 2015 |title=Carr: Last link to epic Boston mob family gone |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2015/06/02/carr-last-link-to-epic-boston-mob-family-gone/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418214022/https://www.bostonherald.com/2015/06/02/carr-last-link-to-epic-boston-mob-family-gone/ |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref> Gennaro and his brothers were popular figures in the Italian enclave.<ref name="Two Dons">{{cite news |last=Boeri |first=David |date=September 3, 2009 |title='The Two Dons Are Dead' |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2009/09/03/angiulo-remembrance |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418233738/https://www.wbur.org/news/2009/09/03/angiulo-remembrance |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=WBUR-FM}}</ref>
A period of gang warfare erupted in Boston beginning in September 1961 and involving the rival Irish mob groups, the McLaughlin Gang of Charlestown and Somerville's Winter Hill Gang.<ref name="Boston Irish Gang Wars">{{cite web |title=The Boston Irish Gang Wars Terrify a City |url=https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-irish-gang-wars-terrify-a-city/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250413172309/https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-irish-gang-wars-terrify-a-city/ |archive-date=April 13, 2025 |website=New England Historical Society |date=April 17, 2022 }}</ref> The feud resulted in over 50 murders.<ref name="Angiulo talks about gang warfare">{{cite news |date=September 4, 1985 |title=Angiulo talks about gang warfare on FBI tapes |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/09/04/Angiulo-talks-about-gang-warfare-on-FBI-tapes/3160494654400/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418162438/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/09/04/Angiulo-talks-about-gang-warfare-on-FBI-tapes/3160494654400/ |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=United Press International}}</ref> Many gangsters went into hiding to avoid the bloodshed, resulting in their illicit operations being neglected and Patriarca receiving less money from the Boston rackets. Patriarca threatened to "declare martial law" and ordered the leaders of both gangs to hold peace talks in January 1965, but the negotiations failed.<ref name="Boston Irish Gang Wars"/> Angiulo and Patriarca sought advice from the New York crime boss Vito Genovese, who advised them to cede some territory to appease the Irish gangs.<ref name="Angiulo talks about gang warfare"/> Determined to end the war, Patriarca decided to back the Winter Hill Gang to eliminate the McLaughlin Gang.<ref name="Boston Irish Gang Wars"/> Angiulo claimed to have killed twenty Irish mobsters to quell the gang war, saying he and his brothers "buried 20 fucking Irishmen to take this fucking town over".<ref name="Angiulo talks about gang warfare"/>
On August 8, 1967, Angiulo was indicted by the Suffolk County Grand Jury on charges of conspiracy to murder Rocco DiSiglio, a Mafia associate and former boxer who was shot five times and left in a sports car in Topsfield in June 1966. Angiulo allegedly incited three others—Richard DeVincent, Marino LePore, and Bernard "Bernie" Zinna, who were each charged with first-degree murder—to kill DiSiglio. The indictments were the result of the Grand Jury testimony of former hit man Joseph "the Animal" Barboza.<ref name="Angiulo Indictment">{{cite news |date=August 11, 1967 |title=Angiulo Indictment Gives Boston A Break in Gang-Busting Attempt |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1967/8/11/angiulo-indictment-gives-boston-a-break/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418205642/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1967/8/11/angiulo-indictment-gives-boston-a-break/ |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> Angiulo utilized two underlings, Stephen "the Rifleman" Flemmi and Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, to ensure he was acquitted by jury tampering.<ref name="Former mob boss tells of access">{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Shelley |date=February 13, 2004 |title=Former mob boss tells of access to FBI |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/13/former_mob_boss_tells_of_access_to_fbi/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040216213205/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/13/former_mob_boss_tells_of_access_to_fbi/ |archive-date=February 16, 2004 |work=The Boston Globe}}</ref> In 1968, Anguilo and his co-defendants were found not guilty.<ref name="Bernard Zinna">{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Howie |author-link=Howie Carr |date=August 12, 2007 |title=Mobster of the Week: Bernard Zinna |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2007/08/12/mobster-of-the-week-bernard-zinna/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250419002537/https://www.bostonherald.com/2007/08/12/mobster-of-the-week-bernard-zinna/ |archive-date=April 19, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref>
Angiulo recruited the Winter Hill Gang for assistance in a war against the Somerville-based Notarangeli crew, headed by Alfred "Indian Al" Notarangeli.<ref name="Trail of corpses">{{cite news |date=June 2, 2013 |title=Trail of corpses and grief |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2013/06/02/trail-of-corpses-and-grief/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220230724/https://www.bostonherald.com/2013/06/02/trail-of-corpses-and-grief/ |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref><ref name="Leader Killed After Altercation">{{cite news |date=August 9, 2011 |title=Testimony: Rival Gang Leader Killed After Altercation With Patriarca Crime Family |url=https://www.wcvb.com/article/al-notarangeli/8165668 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250307024339/https://www.wcvb.com/article/al-notarangeli/8165668 |archive-date=March 7, 2025 |work=WCVB-TV}}</ref> Notarangeli's gang had begun extorting bookmakers who were under the protection of the Patriarca family,<ref name="11 murders">{{cite news |date=August 12, 2013 |title=James 'Whitey' Bulger linked to 11 murders |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/12/justice/whitey-bulger-families/index.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250217220033/https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/12/justice/whitey-bulger-families/index.html |archive-date=February 17, 2025 |work=CNN}}</ref> and while on furlough from prison in 1972, Notarangeli murdered one of Angiulo's bookies, Paulie Folino.<ref name="Leader Killed After Altercation"/><ref name="Joe Notarangeli">{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Howie |author-link=Howie Carr |date=May 22, 2011 |title=Joe Notarangeli, 1937-1973 |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2011/05/22/joe-notarangeli-1937-1973/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250307024843/https://www.bostonherald.com/2011/05/22/joe-notarangeli-1937-1973/ |archive-date=March 7, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref> Folino disappeared in September 1972 and his remains were discovered in a shallow grave in Boxford a month later.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 5, 1972 |title=Surviving Killeen ready to quit gambling |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-quitting-gambling/74247170/ |work=The Boston Globe |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
In March and April 1973, the Winter Hill Gang carried out a series of hits, resulting in the deaths of mobsters Michael Milano, Al Plummer, William O'Brien, James Leary, and Joseph "Indian Joe" Notarangeli.<ref name="Pleads Guilty">{{cite press release |title=Winter Hill Gang Leader Pleads Guilty |date=October 14, 2003 |url=https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/pubs/states/newsrel/boston101403.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715180304/https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/pubs/states/newsrel/boston101403.html |archive-date=July 15, 2021 |website=Drug Enforcement Administration}}</ref> After several failed attempts on his life,<ref name="A Look">{{cite news |date=August 12, 2013 |title=A Look At The 19 Murder Victims In Bulger Trial] |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/a-look-at-the-19-murder-victims-in-bulger-trial/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250217220600/https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/a-look-at-the-19-murder-victims-in-bulger-trial/ |archive-date=February 17, 2025 |work=CBS News}}</ref> Al Notarangeli was shot in the head and left in the trunk of his car by the Winter Hill Gang on February 22, 1974, at the request of the Patriarca family.<ref name="Addled">{{cite news |date=June 24, 2011 |title=Caught In Santa Monica, Mobster Appears Addled |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2011/06/24/caught-in-santa-monica-mobster-appears-addled/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250217214924/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2011/06/24/caught-in-santa-monica-mobster-appears-addled/ |archive-date=February 17, 2025 |work=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref><ref name="Ex-hit man">{{cite news |date=June 17, 2013 |title=Ex-hit man John Martorano ties Whitey Bulger to murder as federal trial continues in Boston |url=https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/06/17/ex-hit-man-john-martorano-ties-whitey-bulger-to-murder-as-federal-trial-continues-in-boston/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250217215627/https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/06/17/ex-hit-man-john-martorano-ties-whitey-bulger-to-murder-as-federal-trial-continues-in-boston/#selection-1963.0-1970.0 |archive-date=February 17, 2025 |work=Boston.com}}</ref>
Angiulo became a multimillionaire.<ref name="Mobster keeps truckin’">{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Howie |author-link=Howie Carr |date=July 8, 2007 |title=Mobster keeps truckin' at 88: Bigmouth set to get out of big house |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2007/07/08/mobster-keeps-truckin-at-88-bigmouth-set-to-get-out-of-big-house/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250425005315/https://www.bostonherald.com/2007/07/08/mobster-keeps-truckin-at-88-bigmouth-set-to-get-out-of-big-house/ |archive-date=April 25, 2025 |work=Boston Herald}}</ref> He lived in a beachfront mansion in the suburb of Nahant and drove a Jeep with "Italian Stallion" inscribed on the license plate.<ref name="Boston indictments">{{cite news |last=Lion |first=Ed |date=September 25, 1983 |title=Boston indictments give glimpse into mob |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Boston-Indictments-give-glimpse-into-mob/2143433310400/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220005810/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Boston-Indictments-give-glimpse-into-mob/2143433310400/ |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |work=United Press International}}</ref>
==Capture==
===Arrest=== 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 |title=Bulger's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert |url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/bulger.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901184517/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/bulger.htm |archive-date=September 1, 2009 |access-date=September 2, 2009 |work=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref> and Stephen Flemmi (the latter of whom was a longtime friend of the Angiulo brothers) drew a diagram for FBI agents telling them where to plant the bugs.<ref name="Globe" /> During one taped conversation between Angiulo and Zannino, Angiulo said: "I wouldn't be in legitimate business for all the fucking money in the world. We're shylock. We're a fucking bookmaker. We're selling marijuana. We're illegal here, illegal there. Arsonists! We're every fucking thing".<ref name="A Deal with the Devil"/>
On September 19, 1983, following a three-year federal investigation, Angiulo was arrested alongside his brothers Francesco and Michele at Francesco's Restaurant in the North End. Donato Angiulo was arrested nearby.<ref name="U.S. Investigation">{{cite news |date=September 21, 1983 |title=U.S. Investigation of Boston Mob Yields Indictments Against 7 Men |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/21/us/us-investigation-of-boston-mob-yields-indictments-against-7-men.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219012825/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/21/us/us-investigation-of-boston-mob-yields-indictments-against-7-men.html |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> As Angiulo was being taken in handcuffs from the restaurant, he yelled, "I'll be back before my pork chops get cold."<ref name="Globe" /> The four, along with a fifth Angiulo brother, Vittore, as well as Ilario Zannino and Samuel Granito were indicted on racketeering charges involving murder, loan sharking, obstruction of justice, obstruction of law enforcement, interstate travel involving racketeering and illegal gambling.<ref name="U.S. Investigation"/> The indictment listed six murders, including that of Joseph Barboza.<ref name="Reputed head">{{cite news |last=Poole |first=William |date=September 20, 1983 |title=Reputed head of Boston underworld and five deputies arraigned |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/20/The-reputed-head-of-Bostons-underworld-and-five-top/6311432878400/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220011012/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/20/The-reputed-head-of-Bostons-underworld-and-five-top/6311432878400/ |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |work=United Press International}}</ref> Angiulo and his associates allegedly made $250,000 per week from the rackets.<ref name="Authorities hope">{{cite news |last=Lion |first=Ed |date=September 26, 1983 |title=Authorities hope arrest of Boston 'godfather' will crack mob |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/26/Authorities-hope-arrest-of-Boston-godfather-will-crack-mob/5869433396800/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220005611/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/26/Authorities-hope-arrest-of-Boston-godfather-will-crack-mob/5869433396800/ |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |work=United Press International}}</ref>
After the death of Patriarca in July 1984, Angiulo sought the leadership of the family. His closest lieutenant, Zannino, instead lent his support to Patriarca's son, Raymond Patriarca Jr., however, who promoted Zannino to ''consigliere'' after he was appointed the successor to his father.<ref name="Prosecutors Hope To Expose Mafia"/> Following Angiulo's arrest, and amid newspaper reports that revealed his carelessness in allowing the FBI to infiltrate the Boston mob, the Patriarca family formally demoted him to the rank of soldier as a symbolic rebuke.<ref name="Globe" /> Francesco "Paul" Intiso succeeded Angiulo as underboss.<ref name="Mob War">{{cite web |last=May |first=Allan |date=September 4, 2000 |title=Mob War in Beantown |url=https://www.americanmafia.com/Allan_May_9-11-00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418220243/https://www.americanmafia.com/Allan_May_9-11-00.html |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |work=American Mafia}}</ref>
===Trial=== At the highly publicized trial, which lasted eight months, jurors heard hours of taped conversations of Angiulo and his associates discussing and planning numerous illegal activities, including murder, gambling, loan sharking and extortion. In one conversation, Angiulo ordered the murder of a bartender employed in one of his clubs after learning that he had agreed to testify to having overheard incriminating details of Angiulo crimes. The FBI thwarted the plot by warning the witness.<ref name="Globe" />
While sitting in court, the mobster often sarcastically commented on the evidence presented and cracked jokes, prompting District Court Judge David Nelson to repeatedly reprimand him for contemptible behavior.<ref name="wbur" />
==Sentence and later life== On February 27, 1986, Angiulo and his co-defendants were convicted of "an avalanche of charges".<ref name="4 Convicted">{{cite news |last=Wald |first=Matthew L. |date=February 27, 1986 |title=4 Convicted By U.S. Jury In Boston Rackets Trial |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/27/us/4-convicted-by-us-jury-in-boston-rackets-trial.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220005936/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/27/us/4-convicted-by-us-jury-in-boston-rackets-trial.html#selection-695.0-704.0 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> On April 3, 1986, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison on 12 counts of racketeering, gambling, loan sharking, and obstruction of justice.<ref name="Reputed Mafia boss">{{cite news |last=Davies |first=Karin |date=April 3, 1986 |title=Reputed Mafia boss Angiulo sentenced |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/03/Reputed-Mafia-boss-Gennaro-J-Angiulo-convicted-on-federal/9854102815880/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220005916/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/03/Reputed-Mafia-boss-Gennaro-J-Angiulo-convicted-on-federal/9854102815880/ |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |work=United Press International}}</ref> As his own lawyer, Angiulo argued numerous times, unsuccessfully, to have his conviction overturned. One argument claimed that he was framed by the FBI, Bulger, and Flemmi.<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 Devens, was paroled on September 10, 2007. He had been undergoing 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 web |title=Boston mafia leader, 88, to be freed from prison |url=https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/worcester/2007/07/08/boston-mafia-leader-88-to/52855680007/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250418184651/https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/worcester/2007/07/08/boston-mafia-leader-88-to/52855680007/ |archive-date=April 18, 2025 |access-date=March 22, 2024 |website=The Worcester Telegram & Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> with whom he had three children.
== Death == Angiulo died on August 29, 2009, at the Massachusetts General Hospital of kidney failure from kidney disease.<ref name="Globe" /> A funeral mass was said in Angiulo's honor at St. Leonard's Church in Boston's North End on May 8, 2009.<ref>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Shelley |date=May 5, 2009 |title=Donato Angiulo, 86, part of family that ran Boston mob. |publisher=Boston Globe |page=B14}}</ref> He received a military burial at an undisclosed cemetery following his death.<ref name="Johnson-2009"/>
==In popular culture== In the Whitey Bulger biopic ''Black Mass'' (2015), Angiulo is portrayed by Bill Haims.
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==Sources== * {{cite book |last1=Lehr |first1=Dick |url=https://archive.org/details/blackmassirishmo00lehr |title=Black mass: the Irish mob, the FBI, and a devil's deal |last2=O'Neill |first2=Gerard |publisher=PublicAffairs |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-891620-40-9 |access-date=September 2, 2009 |url-access=registration}} * {{cite book |last=Reppetto |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-AFhs0RrKIC&q=Gennaro+Angiulo+eleven |title=Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia |publisher=Macmillan |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8050-8659-1 |edition=reprint |access-date=September 2, 2009}}
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