Jerry Angiulo dies at 90

Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo, 90-year-old former underboss of the New England Crime Family, died today of kidney failure at Massachusetts General Hospital.

New England mobster Danny Angiulo dies

Donato "Danny" Angiulo, convicted New England Mafia racketeer, has died at the age of 86, according to reports by the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald.

Angiulo (left) died Sunday night at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after a long illness. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Dello Russo Funeral Home in Medford, Massachusetts, Angiulo's hometown. A funeral Mass is scheduled for Friday, May 8, 11 a.m., at St. Leonard Church in Boston's North End.

Angiulo, once a caporegime in New England's crime family, served 11 years in prison after a 1986 conviction for racketeering, gambling and loansharking. Upon his release from prison in 1997, some wondered if he would take control of what remained of the Patriarca crime family, then decimated by successful prosecutions. Donato Angiulo's brother, Gennaro Angiulo, once served as underboss of the crime family. Gennaro also was sentenced to a long prison term in 1986. He was paroled in 2007 and is now 90 years old.

An electronic listening device installed in the crime family's North End headquarters in 1981 gathered evidence of Angiulo illegal activities. Two other brothers, Francesco and Michele, were also convicted of participating in those activities.

Former NE underboss to be paroled

Gennaro Angiulo, former underboss of the New England Mafia family, is due to be paroled on Sept. 18, according to a story by Shelley Murphy and Megan Tench in today's Boston Globe.

Angiulo (right), now 88, has been serving a 45-year federal sentence for racketeering. That sentence will not expire until May 2010. Angiulo is now confined in the prison hospital at Devens. The U.S. Parole Commission granted his latest parole request on June 22 but remained mum. The Globe obtained confirmation of the parole from a commission spokesman yesterday.

Based in an office at 98 Prince Street in Boston's North End, Angiulo was a najor force in Boston-area organized crime from the 1960s through the early 1980s, specializing in gambling and loansharking. His rise coincided with the reign of New England boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca, who was based in Providence, RI. Angiulo was brought down through federal electronic surveillance of his hangouts.

Angiulo and his three brothers - Donato, Francesco and Michele - were convicted of racketeering offenses in February 1986. Michele served three years in prison and died last year of lung cancer. The remaining brothers are in their 80s. Francesco, 86, has been out of prison since 2000 and living in the North End. Donato, 84, freed in 1997, is living in Medford, MA.