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No, Johnny would have no problems in Boston. At his sentencing in 2004, Eddie Connors's son had mentioned something about “street justice,” but Johnny was not concerned. He just wanted to get to Boston, see his children, and try to do something he'd never done before—live a normal, straight life.

I had a friend, a guy I met on the lam in Orlando. John Pierce. He had a nightclub, then a redneck bar in Tampa, then a steakhouse in north Georgia. He used to visit me at the prison, so the day I got out, he drove down to pick me up. I walked out the door and got in his car and we drove 400 miles straight, to Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. No stops. I just wanted to get home.

We get to the airport. John says, do you want me to come in with you? And I said, nah, I can handle it. So I go in there, and everything is different. I haven't been on a commercial airliner except as a prisoner since 9/11. I have no driver's license, only a prison ID. The guy looks at it and says, that's not good enough. I said, hey, what do you want from me? I just got out of prison, that's all I got. Finally they let me on the plane. JetBlue.

Johnny Martorano's favorite photograph of himself.

At Logan, my brother and my cousin Joe picked me up. If you've never been in prison, it's hard to explain what it's like, getting out. It's like coming out of a spaceship, everything seems a little off.

They took me to Santarpio's Pizza, right near the airport there in East Boston. I had pizza and lamb. Must have been cheese pizza—Jimmy's a vegetarian. We finished dinner, and then they drove me to Woburn. I was staying with my cousin. I was tired, I got a good night's sleep, and the next morning I started making phone calls. I told everybody the same thing. I'm back.

 

Where Are They Now—2010

JOHNNY MARTORANO:
Age seventy, retired, living in Boston; is spending all his time with family and friends and says that he has found a good woman and has finally settled down.

JIMMY MARTORANO:
Age sixty-nine, living in Quincy, working as the winemaker at the Boston Winery in Dorchester.

HOWIE WINTER:
Age eighty-one, retired, living in Millbury, Massachusetts, married to the former Ellen Brogna.

STEVIE FLEMMI:
Age seventy-six, serving a life sentence without possibility of parole at an undisclosed federal location, believed to be in Otisville, New York. Sends a Christmas card every year to Tulsa detective Mike Huff.

JOHN “ZIP” CONNOLLY:
Age sixty-nine, currently serving a racketeering sentence in federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, until June 2011, after which he will begin serving a life sentence in the state of Florida for second-degree murder conviction in the death of John Callahan. Appeals continue in the Florida case. Screenplay,
Only the Ghost Knows,
remains unsold in Hollywood.

GENNARO “JERRY” ANGIULO:
Former Mafia boss of Boston, died a free man in August 2009 at age ninety. Buried out of St. Leonard's in the North End with a full U.S. Navy honor guard, Hells Angels pallbearers, and a lengthy funeral procession led by a flat-bed truck carrying 190 floral bouquets. His son finished his eulogy to his father by saying, “In the words of Frank Sinatra, Jerry did it his way.”

WILLIAM M. BULGER:
Age seventy-six, younger brother of Whitey, continues to receive a state pension of $16,517.16 a month.

PAT NEE:
Age sixty-five, former member of both the Mullens and the Winter Hill Gang; still living and working in South Boston.

DENNIS CONDON:
FBI agent, partner of H. Paul Rico, died at age eighty-five in 2009. Paid obituary referred to his “illustrious career in law enforcement.”

JEREMIAH O'SULLIVAN:
Longtime federal prosecutor and former head of the Organized Crime Strike Force, who never publicly answered why he treated both Bulger brothers with such kid gloves over the years, died at age sixty-six in February 2009. The
Globe
described him as a “brilliant … straight arrow.”

MICHAEL FLEMMI:
Stevie's youngest brother, former Boston police officer, now serving his sentence in a federal penitentiary in Elkton, Indiana. Scheduled to be released in September 2011, when he will be seventy-four.

JOHN BULGER:
Whitey's youngest brother, paroled in April 2004, now seventy-two, continues court appeals to regain his $3,500-a-month state pension, arguing his crime of lying to a federal grand jury had nothing to do with his duties as clerk of what was then called the Boston Juvenile Court.

BILLY BARNOSKI:
Winter Hill associate, now serving life sentence at MCI-Shirley medium security facility for the murder of Jackie McDermott. Continues to maintain innocence, and is appealing.

KENNY FISHMAN:
Stevie Flemmi's attorney, now a Massachusetts Superior Court judge. Testified by videotape in the murder trial of Zip Connolly in 2008.

DIANE KOTTMYER:
Former federal prosecutor, joked with Zip Connolly at his retirement dinner in 1990 about Whitey Bulger's South Boston Liquor Mart. Now a Massachusetts Superior Court judge.

CARMEN “THE CHEESEMAN” DINUNZIO:
One-time Mafia boss of Boston, pleaded guilty to state and federal racketeering charges in 2009, currently serving his sentence in Morgantown, West Virginia. Scheduled release date: January 2015, when he will be fifty-seven years old.

JOEY YERARDI:
Associate of Johnny Martorano, now serving federal sentence for racketeering at penitentiary in Otisville, New York. Is scheduled for release in 2012, when he will be fifty-eight years old.

ARNOLD CAMPBELL:
Now seventy-five; only surviving member of the Campbell gang, retired in Phoenix, Arizona. Lives with daughter, collects Social Security pension of $920 a month, and another $120 a month from the state of Arizona, for which he once worked. Says, “I love Johnny and Jimmy. Johnny's my brother—100 percent.”

PETER LIMONE:
Now seventy-six; one of four men framed by the FBI for a murder he did not commit, was released in 2001 after thirty-three years in prison. In 2007, a federal judge awarded Limone and the others (or their estates) a total of $101.7 million for wrongful imprisonment. Arrested in December 2008 on state charges of extortion, loansharking, and gambling.

GEORGE MCLAUGHLIN:
Now eighty-one, last of the McLaughlin brothers of Charlestown, imprisoned for murder since 1964; serving his life sentence at Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk, Massachusetts.

FRANK SALEMME:
Now seventy-six, reportedly released from federal prison in 2009 and living on Cape Cod.

ANTHONY “THE SAINT” ST. LAURENT:
Now sixty-nine, as of 2010, imprisoned at Devens Medical Facility in Ayer, Massachusetts. According to authorities, has twice tried to hire hitmen to murder his Rhode Island Mafia rival, Robert DeLuca, telling one wired wiseguy: “Shoot him in the fucking head. Say, ‘This is from the Saint.'” Most recently charged in February 2010 with attempting to shake down bookies in Taunton, Massachusetts. His seventy-three-year-old wife, Dorothy, pleaded guilty in September 2010 to being the Saint's “primary collection agent.”

WILLIAM DELAHUNT:
Age sixty-nine, former classmate of the Martorano brothers at St. Agatha's School in Milton, retired from the U.S. House of Representatives after completing his seventh two-year term in 2010.

JAMES J. “WHITEY” BULGER:
A federal fugitive since 1995, remains on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, with a $2 million bounty on his head. He turned eighty on September 3, 2009—the same day Jerry Angiulo was buried. Still believed to be traveling with Catherine Greig. There have been no credible recent sightings of Bulger.

 

Index

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America's Most Wanted

Amico, Joseph (“Chico”)

mug shot of

murder of

Angel, Johnny

Angeli, Al (“Indian Al”)

Angiulo, G., and

attacks on

background of

Folino against

as fugitive

headquarters of

last activities of

money from

murder by

murder of

Raso and

Sperlinga and

wife of

Winter and

Angiulo, Frankie (“the Cat”)

Angiulo, Gennaro (“Jerry”)

acquittal of

advice from

Angeli and

arrest of

FBI against

Flemmi, V., and

loan from

Mafia and

money from

mug shot of

murders and

profit-sharing for

RICO and

sit-downs with

surveillance of

in 2010

Ardolino, Eddie

mug shot of

Ash, George

August, Johnny

Baione, Larry (Ilario Zannino)

the Bear and

Bratsos and

death of

gambling for

mug shot of

murder plan for

murders by

surveillance of

Wimpy and

Baione, Petey

Ballou, Tommy

mug shot of

Banno, Jack (“Touch”)

Barboza, Joe (“the Animal”)

Amico's death and

arrest of

crimes by

Deegan murder trial and

Fabiano and

false information from

gang war and

as informant

lies from

Mafia contract on

Mafia
vs.

murder of

murders by

parole for

Patriarca, R., against

police against

in prison

recanting for

security measures for

sentence of

testimony of

Vaccari and

in Witness Protection Program

Barnicle, Mike

against Johnny

Barnoski, Billy

on fixing horse races

murder by

Sousa, J., and

in 2010

Barrett, Bucky

murder of

Salemme, F., and

Barrett, Douglas

Barry, Maryanne Trump

baseball

Boston Red Sox

gambling on

Basin Street South (club)

beating at

features of

purchase of

the Bear.
See
Flemmi, Vincent

Belinsky, Bo

Bennett, Billy

murder of

Bennett, Edward (“Wimpy”)

Baione, L., and

gang war and

loans from

murder of

murders and

murders by

Patriarca, R., and

as shoplifter

Bennett, Louise

Bennett, Walter

murder of

Birmingham, Tom

Black Sam, attack on

Bobby G.
See
Gallinareo, Bobby

bookmakers

backing for

Crane as

fixing horse races and

Flemmi, S., and

football and

gambling
vs.

independent

Jewish bookies

Johnny and

lotteries and

Mace for

O'Brien, D., as

probe on

protection and

Sagansky and

in Witness Protection Program

Boston Red Sox

boxers

Bradley, Ed

story for

Weeks and

Bratsos, Arthur (“Tash”)

arrest of

Baione, L., and

death and

Mafia and

mug shot of

murder and

murder of

Brogna, Ellen

Brucias, Steve (“Steve the Greek”)

life of

murder and

Bryne, Garrett

Buccola, Phil

Bulger, James J. (“Whitey”).
See also
Flemmi, Stevie

alleged homosexuality

arrest of

background of

Blackfriars and

boots of

bugging

Carnes and

children and

Condon and

Corsetti and

DEA and

disguise for

drugs and

in Europe

extortion by

FBI and

first robbery of

flattery from

as fugitive

gangster movies for

the
Globe
and

Green and

Greig, D., and

half-truths from

as informant

against Killeen

against King

limelight and

lottery for

LSD and

Mafia and

McCormack, J., for

McDonald, J., and

meeting

Mein Kampf
for

in military

Morris and

mug shots of

murders and

murders by

on O'Donovan

phone taps and

at Plymouth