Boston faction •
Vittore Nicolo "Nicky" Angiulo — former
consigliere who operated from Boston's
North End. Vittore Nicolo was the eldest of all the
Angiulo brothers. In 1983, Angiulo was indicted along with his four brothers on federal racketeering charges. He was deemed unfit to stand trial due to ill health, however. The
FBI stated that Nick Angiulo was demoted from
consigliere position after his brother
Gennaro Angiulo tried to become the new boss of the family. On September 13, 1987, Angiulo died from a kidney ailment, aged 71. On September 19, 1983, Francesco Angiulo and six other mobsters, including his brothers Gennaro, Donato and Michele, were arrested on
RICO charges. He was convicted of racketeering and sentenced on April 3, 1986 to 25 years in federal prison and $60,000 in restitution. Angiulo was released in 2000 and died from heart failure on May 30, 2015, aged 94. •
Donato F. "Danny" Angiulo — former
capo. Born in March 1923, Angiulo was identified in 1983 as a captain based in Boston's North End. In February 1986, Donato was convicted of racketeering. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and fined $40,000 in April 1986. He was paroled in 1997. Angiulo died on May 3, 2009, aged 86. •
John C. "Johnny" Cincotti — former soldier. Cincotti was born in
Revere and raised in the
North End of Boston. He was a protégé of Ralph Lamattina and
Ilario Zannino. In November 1966, Cincotti helped clean up the murder scene after two members of
Joseph Barboza's gang, Arthur Bratsos and Thomas DePrisco, were lured to Lamattina's bar, the Night Lite Café, and killed. He and Lamattina were found scrubbing blood from the floor when police arrived. In 1968, Cincotti and Lamattina assaulted
Stephen Flemmi in an afterhours club. As Flemmi was unable to retaliate directly against Cincotti or Lamattina, who were "made men", he instead had his associate
John Martorano murder Hubert Smith, an African American man who had also taken part in the beating. Two Black teenagers were killed alongside Smith when he was shot by Martorano. Cincotti was convicted of racketeering and gambling on August 14, 1986. He was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison and fined $70,000 in October 1986. Cincotti was released in 1997. He supplied
Boston mobster
Johnny Martorano a World War II machine gun from his arsenal of weapons, to kill rival gangster Al "Indian" Angeli. Cucchiella was loyal to Boston Mafia
capo Ilario Zannino and Providence based family boss
Raymond L. S. Patriarca. Cucchiella died in 1993. •
Carmen Salvatore "The Cheese Man" DiNunzio; also known as
"The Big Cheese" — former boss. During the 1980s, DiNunzio and his brother Anthony were underlings of Jerry Angiulo. In 1992, they were both indicted along with the Outfit leadership on racketeering charges and sentenced to four years in prison. Shortly after, DiNunzio was made
capo of the North End crew and in 2003 was promoted to underboss of the family. He pled guilty to bribery charges and was sentenced to six years in prison on September 24, 2009. In February 2015, DiNunzio was released from prison. He became boss of the family in 2017 after the death of Peter Limone. •
Nicolo "Nicky" Giso; also known as "Geezer" — former soldier. Giso was born in Boston on July 14, 1923. He was a lieutenant to the
Angiulo brothers and was involved in gambling operations in Boston's
North End. Giso also served as a liaison between Patriarca underboss
Gennaro Angiulo and the
Winter Hill Gang. During the 1970s, he began a relationship with Eva "Liz" McDonough, starting when she was aged fifteen. He fathered a son with McDonough. Giso reportedly fell out of favor with the family's leadership due to his relationship with McDonough and because of his use of cocaine. McDonough drew the ire of Angiulo when she allegedly told the mother of a stabbing victim that Patriarca soldier Peter Limone had carried out the attack. In 1981, Angiulo was recorded on an
FBI bug planted in
Ilario Zannino's office explaining his belief that McDonough should be killed as she had become "a detriment, a jeopardy, a danger" to the Mafia. McDonough was further considered a liability due to her drug use. Flemmi allegedly ordered her killed after she began openly questioning him about Davis' disappearance. Giso lured McDonough to 'One If By Land', a
dive bar on Commercial Street in the North End, and asked her to wear a
10-gallon hat she owned. McDonough's headwear made her easily identifiable to two masked gunmen who were waiting to ambush her. The shooting has gone unsolved. By 1986, Giso was in failing health, having had his larynx removed and lost the ability to speak. By September 1956, he was serving a 16 to 20 year prison sentence for an armed robbery in November 1947, netting over $110,000. In 1983, Granito was identified as the captain of the
East Boston crew. Granito was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and fined $35,000 on April 3, 1986 after being convicted of racketeering. •
Ralph "Ralphie Chong" Lamattina — former soldier operating from Boston; Lamattina was part of
capo Ilario Zannino's crew. He was the brother of fellow Boston faction soldier Joseph "Joe Black" Lamattina. He managed a coffee shop in the North End called the Nite Lite Café. According to government witness
Vincent Teresa, Lamattina was in charge of the family's narcotics operations. He was suspected as a culprit in the death of Irish mobster George Killeen, who was shot to death on May 20, 1950. On November 15, 1966, Lamattina was involved in the murders of Greek gangster Arthur "Tash" Bratsos and his bodyguard Thomas "Tommy D" De Prisco, who were lured into the Nite Lite Café and shot to death by Zannino. He was convicted as an accessory after the fact and sentenced to two years in prison. He avoided prosecution and fled to Italy, remaining a fugitive for 11 years before turning himself in on August 14, 1995. He was sentenced to five years in prison, being released on June 1, 2000. Lamattina died on April 10, 2017. •
Dennis D. "Champagne" Lepore — former soldier. Born in September 1946, Lepore was identified as a soldier under the "Granito-East Boston crew" in 1983. In April 1992, Lepore was sentenced to between 14 and 16 years in prison for racketeering, to be followed with 5 years supervised release, and a forfeiture of $766,700. •
Peter J. "Chief Crazy Horse" Limone — former boss. In order to avoid investigation in the
Kefauver hearings, Lombardo retired from racketeering in 1950, turning over his gambling operations to
Gennaro Angiulo. Lombardo died, aged 72, at Boston's
Massachusetts General Hospital on July 17, 1969 after suffering a heart attack. In his teenage years, Quintina was convicted of assault with intent to rob and armed robbery in
Worcester, and sentenced to 10-to-12 years in prison. As a
Revere-based
capo, he operated from Fiore's Market and controlled rackets on the
North Shore. In 1972, he was indicted on federal gambling charges but the case was dismissed. He was released on June 12, 1998. Quintina died on August 12, 2001. Rizzo was born in 1913. He was a major organized crime figure in
Revere for decades. In 1994, Rizzo was indicted along with three other aging Revere mobsters, known as "the Oldfellas", on federal racketeering charges relating to illegal gambling and extortion. On April 5, 1995, he was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty. •
Joseph "J. R." Russo — former
consigliere. Russo was a
capo of an East Boston crew and headed a renegade faction in an unsuccessful attempt to seize control of the family from
Raymond Patriarca Jr., who promoted Russo to
consligliere as part of a truce to end the rebellion. He was convicted of racketeering in 1992 and died from cancer in federal prison in 1998. •
Francis Patrick "Frankie Boy" Salemme Jr. — former soldier. Frank Salemme Jr. was the son of
Frank Salemme Sr. and nephew of John Salemme. He operated under the protection of the
Winter Hill Gang while his father was in prison between 1973 and 1988. Salemme Jr. and an associate, Paul Weadick, had a history of "ripping off" drug dealers. He also had a reputation as a violent gangster who frequently engaged in fist fights. Salemme Jr. was marked for death after defrauding a drug ring backed by Patriarca family soldier Joseph Lamattina over a
marijuana deal in 1983, and was only saved by the intervention of Winter Hill gangster
Stephen Flemmi. In 1985, Salemme Jr. was involved in a feud with North End associate Jimmy Limoli after a $100,000 marijuana rip-off and subsequent robbery of $100,000 in cocaine belonging to Patriarca soldier Anthony Spagnolo, resulting in Limoli being shot to death. In 1987, Salemme Jr. and Weadick were arrested by
New Hampshire State Police after a cocaine deal. In 1992, he was indicted on charges of bribing
Teamsters union officials to allow a Hollywood film company to shoot scenes in Boston and Providence using non-union labor. Salemme Jr. and his father became the owners of
The Channel, a South Boston
rock club, using club manager Steven DiSarro as a
straw man. DiSarro came under investigation by the
FBI and
IRS for money laundering and bank fraud relating to real estate deals in which he was involved and testified before a federal grand jury in April 1993. Fearing that he would be implicated, Salemme Sr. ordered DiSarro killed. Salemme Jr. and Weadick strangled DiSarro to death at the home of Salemme Sr. in
Sharon on May 10, 1993. His body was then buried behind a mill in Providence. Salemme Jr. died from AIDS-related leukaemia on June 23, 1995, aged 38. During a meeting with Pappas at the Four Seas Chinese restaurant in Boston's
Chinatown in the early hours of October 13, 1981, Halloran shot Pappas in the head and killed him. Salemme and Halloran were each charged with Pappas' murder. Halloran was then killed by Winter Hill boss
James "Whitey" Bulger on May 11, 1982 after he became an FBI informant. After almost two years as a fugitive, Salemme surrendered to Boston police in March 1983. In 1985, the verdict was overturned by the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Salemme died on May 23, 2024, at the age of 81. •
Frederick "Freddie the Neighbor" Simone — former soldier. Born in April 1950, Simone was identified as a member of the "Granito-East Boston crew" in 1983. In 1988, Simone was sentenced to a 15 to 20 year prison sentence for participating in the June 1981 murder of Angelo Patrizzi, and by 2000, he had been released from prison. In December 2000, Simone was arrested for firearm charges. In December 2003, Simone pleaded not guilty to 29 charges, including extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling and money laundering, law enforcement alleged Simone had engaged in loansharking and protection payments between 1991 and January 2002. He died in 2017.
New Haven faction •
Anthony "Tony the Beaver" Ascenzia — former made member who operated a multimillion-dollar illegal sports betting operation in Greater New Haven, Connecticut, area for the family. Ascenzia shared the New Haven gambling profits with his Providence-based
capo Matthew Guglielmetti. In 2004, Ascenzia was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $25,000 after pleading guilty to racketeering and tax fraud. •
Louis R. Failla — former soldier. Born in December 1927, Failla was identified as a member in 1983. Failla served as a soldier under the "Grasso-Connecticut crew". In August 1991, Failla was convicted of racketeering, he had also been accused of extortion and loansharking. He died in August 1999. •
Gaetano J. Milano — former soldier. Milano was born in
Naples, Italy in October 1951 and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1955, settling in
Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He began his career in organized crime as an associate of the Connecticut faction of the
Colombo family before joining the Patriarca family's
Hartford, Connecticut crew headed by
William Grasso. Milano was inducted into the Patriarca family in 1985, and served as the organization's liaison to the
Springfield, Massachusetts faction of the
Genovese family. Milano was one of 21 mobsters indicted on federal charges in March 1990. He was granted bail of $1.6 million in October 1989 while being held for conspiracy and racketeering. Milano accepted a plea deal and renounced his membership in the Mafia but refused to testify against his co-defendants. He was released in April 2013. Milano died from heart disease on February 9, 2026, aged 74. He died in December 2007.
Providence faction •
Stephen "Peanuts" Broccoli — former soldier. Born in July 1914, Broccoli served as a soldier under the Rhode Island regime. Between 1935 and 1952, Broccoli had been arrested numerous times for participating in illegal gambling, robbery in Rhode Island, carrying a firearm and crashing a car. In May 1952, Broccoli was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbery. •
William "Blackjack" DelSanto — former soldier. Born in November 1943. According to law enforcement, DelSanto became a soldier in the Patriarca family during the 1970s, and he was identified as a soldier under the Rhode Island regime in 1983. DelSanto served as a city sidewalk inspector and allegedly as a driver to
Buddy Cianci, the Mayor of Providence. He died in January 2022. •
Edward C. "Eddie" Lato Jr.; also known as
"Little Eddie" — underboss of the family from 2020 to 2024. He was part of Frank "Bobo" Marrapese's crew during the 1970s and 1980s. Lato was investigated for the murder of Patriarca family enforcer
Kevin Hanrahan on September 18, 1992. Hanrahan was shot to death by a pair of masked gunmen outside a
steakhouse in Federal Hill. He was sentenced to five years in prison, being released in 2004. Lato was arrested and charged with being the leader of an illegal sports betting ring in Providence on December 10, 2006. on November 19, 2014, he was given a 10-year suspended sentence and 10 years of probation. Then, he was indicted on September 22, 2011, on racketeering and extortion charges stemming from his shakedown of Providence strip clubs along with Scivola and retired boss Manocchio, among others. Lato received the stiffest sentence in the case; nine years in prison. He was released from prison and into a
Pawtucket halfway house on January 30, 2019. •
Frank "Bobo" Marrapese — former soldier. Born in March 1943, Marrapese was identified as a member in 1983, serving as a soldier under the Rhode Island regime. In April 1988, Marrapese was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Richard Callei in March 1975. Marrapese had been acquitted in the May 1982 murder of Anthony “The Moron” Mirabella, who was killed at the Fidas restaurant in Providence, and also for the August 1982 murder of Ronald McElroy, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat after accidentally cutting off Marrapese and his friends, who were street racing in Providence. Marrapese was released from prison in May 2008. Marrapese was indicted in May 2011, after a six month joint investigation by the Office of Attorney General and the Rhode Island State Police. In November 2013, Marrapese pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering, five counts of conspiracy to commit extortion and one count of conspiracy to commit usury, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison. In September 2017, Marrapese was denied parole. He died in December 2017. •
Edward J. Romano — former
capo. Born in November 1924, Romano served as a captain based in Rhode Island. In August 1969, former U.S. Attorney General
John N. Mitchell identified Romano as a captain in the Patriarca family to the Senate Investigations Committee. •
Rudolph "Rudy" Sciarra — former soldier. Born in March 1924, Sciarra served as a soldier under the Rhode Island regime. In June 1981, Sciarra was convicted of supplying two firearms used in the murder of Raymond "Baby" Curcio in February 1965, Curcio had burglarised the home of Joe Patriarca, the younger brother of former boss Raymond Patriarca, Sciarra was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in March 2012. •
Alfred "Chippy" Scivola Jr. — former soldier operating from Rhode Island. Scivola was arrested in January 1983 along with capo Frank "Bobo" Marrapese for purchasing a hundred
La-Z-Boy chairs they knew to be stolen. In 2005, he was convicted of shaking down
Stamford, Connecticut, strip clubs and was sentenced to two years in prison. He was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and was released on January 23, 2015. Scivola died on July 14, 2017. •
Albert J. Vitali — former soldier. Born in April 1924, Vitali served as a soldier under the Rhode Island regime. In 1967, Vitali was convicted of possessing stolen goods. He died in July 2014. == Former associates ==