Word: angiulo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studio apartment in Boston's North End was an unlikely headquarters for a multimillion-dollar business. No grand entrance, no smiling receptionist. But it was in that nondescript room that leaders of the Angiulo crime family, the city's predominant underworld dynasty, met regularly to plan the fortunes of an evil empire fed by murder, gambling and loan sharking. Often their plotting turned to what they considered a vexing subject: how to avoid the reach of a unique federal law called RICO, which not only targets Mob leaders but can also dismantle their whole illegal enterprise. "Remember that word 'enterprise...
...confiscate the semilegitimate business fronts, the corrupt construction companies and the phony finance operations through which much Mob wealth is funneled. In the past, even when an underworld chief was imprisoned, the illicit operations remained intact. With RICO, prosecutors can go after the crime empires themselves. In the Angiulo case, for example, the feds are pursuing $4 million in Mob assets, including two apartment buildings, a restaurant and some prime real estate near the Boston Garden...
RICO has been used to imprison the chief mobsters of Los Angeles, Cleveland and New Orleans and to charge leaders of major crime families in New York City. Add to that toll the Angiulos, whose fretting about RICO was recorded in 1981, along with a lot more incriminating material. Last week, after an eight- month trial, the four brothers and an associate were sentenced to varying prison terms and fines, with Gennaro Angiulo drawing 45 years and $120,000. Using the umbrella RICO statute rather than just a series of specific offenses, said Prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan, meant the jury...
Prosecutors said Angiulo was underboss to the late Raymond U.S. Patriarca, who allegedly ran mob enterprises across most of New England from his Providence, R.I., headquarters...
...federal racketeering trial of Gennaro Angiulo's 27-year-old son, Jason, and five defendants has tentatively been scheduled for March...