Bianco was born and raised in
Providence, Rhode Island. In later years, he lived with his wife and children in
Barrington, Rhode Island. He sent his children to private schools and one of his sons later became a lawyer. As a young man, Bianco moved to
Brooklyn, New York to work for the
Colombo crime family. In the early 1960s, the Colombo family was being torn apart by an internal war between boss
Joseph Magliocco and soldier
Joe Gallo. In 1963, Bianco asked Patriarca boss
Raymond L.S. Patriarca if Patriarca could serve as mediator between the two factions. Patriarca agreed and also inducted Bianco, then just a Colombo associate, as a
made man in the Patriarca family. Bianco continued to serve as a liaison to the Colombos. In July 1984, the Patriarca family entered a period of instability with the death of boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca. After a period of jockeying, his son
Raymond Patriarca, Jr. became the new official boss. However, the younger Patriarca was not a strong boss; the family would be controlled over the next few years by a succession of powerful underbosses, In 1985, Bianco was indicted on charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting in the 1982 Mirabella murder. However, soon after the trial began, the judge dismissed all charges against Bianco due to lack of evidence. ==Boss==