1. Gennaro J Angiulo was born in 1919 to Italian immigrants Cesare and Giovannina "Jeannie" Angiulo, who owned the "Dog House", a mom-and-pop convenience store and luncheonette on Prince Street in the North End of Boston.
17 Facts About Gennaro Angiulo
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Gennaro Angiulo grew up with his siblings Nicolo, Donato, Francesco, Antonio, Michele and James.
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Efforts by local authorities to arrest and prosecute operators of the "Italian lottery" created an opening for them; the Gennaro 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.
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Gennaro Angiulo obtained Lombardi's permission to enter the bookmaking rackets in 1951.
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The Mafia's overreaction to the Kefauver hearings, which ultimately had little effect on organized crime in Boston, allowed Gennaro Angiulo to take control of the city's newly independent gambling operations.
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The payment allowed Gennaro Angiulo to become a full-fledged member of the Mafia without having to commit a murder, which is typically required for prospective mafiosi.
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Gennaro Angiulo retained the protection of Patriarca due to his high-earning status.
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The Gennaro Angiulo brothers were first publicly named as members of the Mafia during the Valachi hearings in 1963.
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From this perch, Gennaro Angiulo headed up Boston's underworld from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Gennaro Angiulo utilized two underlings, Stephen "the Rifleman" Flemmi and Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, to ensure he was acquitted by jury tampering.
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Gennaro Angiulo recruited the Winter Hill Gang for assistance in a war against the Somerville-based Notarangeli crew, headed by Alfred "Indian Al" Notarangeli.
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Gennaro Angiulo lived in a beachfront mansion in the suburb of Nahant and drove a Jeep with "Italian Stallion" inscribed on the license plate.
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On September 19,1983, following a three-year federal investigation, Gennaro Angiulo was arrested alongside his brothers Francesco and Michele at Francesco's Restaurant in the North End.
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In one conversation, Gennaro 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 Gennaro Angiulo crimes.
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Gennaro Angiulo, who had been incarcerated at the federal prison hospital in Devens, was paroled on September 10,2007.
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Gennaro Angiulo had been undergoing dialysis treatment since his release while living at his waterfront home in Nahant.
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Gennaro Angiulo died on August 29,2009, at the Massachusetts General Hospital of kidney failure from kidney disease.