Johnny Martorano is the older brother of James "Jimmie" Martorano by eleven months.
21 Facts About Johnny Martorano
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Johnny Martorano's father, Angelo "Andy" Martorano was an immigrant from Riesi, Sicily, and with his family he emigrated to the United States around 1915, to East Boston.
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Johnny Martorano was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy.
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The Johnny Martorano family moved to the Irish enclave of East Milton.
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Johnny Martorano attended Mount Saint Charles Academy in Woonsocket, Rhode Island as a freshman while his brother remained in Milton, enrolling in Cunningham Junior High School.
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Later, in his freshman year, Johnny Martorano dropped out of Mount Saint Charles and joined Jimmie at Cunningham.
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Johnny Martorano committed his first murder at 24, when he allegedly killed Patriarca crime family made man Robert S Palladino, who was going to testify in a case involving the murder of prostitute Barbara Sylvester in his father's restaurant.
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Ralph DeMasi, a Boston mobster incarcerated in White Deer Township, Pennsylvania, would later write to the courts that when he was driving down Morrissey Boulevard with fellow Irish mobster William O'Brien in 1964, Johnny Martorano pulled up in a car alongside them and gunned down O'Brien, shooting him seventeen times with a machine gun and wounding DeMasi.
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Johnny Martorano rapidly became one of the Winter Hill Gang's most prolific enforcers under the tenures of Howie Winter and Whitey Bulger.
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In January 1968, after Hubert "Smitty" Smith, an African-American man, helped mobsters Rocco Lammattina and John Cincotti beat up Flemmi in an after-hours saloon, Johnny Martorano confronted Smith at the saloon the night after the beating.
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Johnny Martorano walked up to the car and killed all three occupants with his.
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On March 8,1973, Johnny Martorano machine gunned 30-year-old bartender Michael Milano to death as he was driving in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston after mistaking Milano for a rival gang leader, Al Notarangeli.
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Johnny Martorano spent the next 16 years as a fugitive, although he was frequently called on to take part in murders.
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Johnny Martorano was arrested in Boca Raton, Florida in January 1995.
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Johnny Martorano was charged, along with Flemmi and two Boston mafiosi, on a massive racketeering indictment; however, he abruptly agreed to a plea bargain deal in 1999.
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Johnny Martorano was angered that Bulger, Taylor, Vitale, and Flemmi hadn't made any effort to keep him out of the 1979 race-fixing indictment, but had persuaded FBI agent John Connolly to ensure they wouldn't be indicted.
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In return for confessing his murders, Johnny Martorano received a reduced prison sentence of 12 years.
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Johnny Martorano turned down an offer to enter the witness protection program and was still living in the Boston area as of 2008.
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On January 15,2008, Johnny Martorano was interviewed by Steve Kroft on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes.
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In June 2013, Johnny Martorano testified as a prosecution witness in Whitey Bulger's trial in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Johnny Martorano was married to Carolyn Wood, an Irish-American, with whom he fathered five children, including Vincent, John Jr.