Carmen DiNunzio
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Carmen DiNunzio is an alleged Mafia underboss.
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[edit] The Cheese in the North End
DiNunzio's connections to the Patriarca Crime Family dates back to the 1980's, right around the time of the end of the Anguilo control of Boston. Back then, DiNunzio was a little errand boy who would do small jobs and fetched coffee for the bigger fish of the Patriarca Family's Boston Operations. The last time DiNunzio had seen a jail cell, before being promoted to the rank of Underboss, was on his release date from federal prison on September 1st, 1995, from then until December 1st, 2006(11 years and 3 months later) DiNunzio was able to avoid arrest by authorities. In 2000 it is believed that DiNunzio, who allegedly became a made man after his release from federal prison in 1995, had risen to the rank of Underboss within the Patriarca Crime Family, making him the top man in Boston and the number two man in New England. The man who he beat for the job was one Peter Limone, who had supposidly turned the job down and taken the Consigliere job of the Patriarca Family. Limone's mob ties date back to the 1960s, in 2001 he was released from prison after serving 33 years for a murder he did not commit. Limone and DiNunzio are often seen together in the North End of Boston but have both vehemently denied working together to run the rackets.
[edit] Getting Made
DiNunzio preferes to be an under the radar type of Mafioso, but, he has continually made the headlines. In August of 2006 he made the headlines when criminals snatched the register from his cheese shop, and in April of 2005, the SUV DiNunzio was driving struck and killed Stephanie Lam, a 16 years old Dorchester girl. Though he was never charged in Lam's death, DiNunzio has spent his life in and out of courts and prison. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to a RICO predicate and he was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to take over an Indian Casino and for shaking down a Las Vegas gambler for $27,000. For this crime he was paroled in 1995, and allegedly became a made man in an ailing Patriarca Family under the control of Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme.
[edit] Investigation & Indictment
In 2001, authorities began to investigate the brand new Patriarca Family Underboss on a gambling probe, the investigation was led by State Troopers Nunzio Orlando and Pasquale Russolillo of the State Police Organized Crime Unit, the probe stemmed from a wire tap that netted an alleged made man in the Patriarca Family, William "Billy" Angelesco of Chelsea. DiNunzio is currently under indictment for these charges, and is expected to be arraigned on Monday December 4th, 2006, maybe he'll be home with his family just in time for the holidays, or maybe he'll be spending the holidays in lock up awaiting his trial to commence. DiNunzio faces up to fifteen years in prison, but it is much more likely that he will plead out and be sentenced to five. Authorities believe that DiNunzio's arrest will further weaken a Mafia Family already diminished from decades of investigations and infighting, after all DiNunzio is the man who united the fractured Boston portion of the Patriarca family into a low-key and profit-focused machine. DiNunzio's extortion and gambling operation allegedly racked in hundreds of thousands of dollars a week for the mob and included a large number of operatives. A State Police officer testified in federal court last year that Arthur Gianelli, a Lynnfield bookmaker and brother-in-law of former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr., the agent who leaked information to James "Whitey" Bulger for 15 years, was paying $2,000 a month to DiNunzio for permission to operate his gambling business. Gianelli is awaiting trial on federal racketeering charges.
