Ilario Zannino

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name = Ilario Zannino


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birth_date = June 15, 1920
birth_place = Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
death_date = February 27, 1996
death_place = Springfield, Missouri, USA
occupation = Mob enforcer
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Ilario "Larry Baione" Zannino (June 15, 1920 - February 27, 1996) was the muscle and chief gambling honcho for Raymond J. Patriarca and the Patriarca crime family. Zannino was said to be the second-highest-ranking figure in the Boston faction of the Patriarca family. He is a paternal nephew or a paternal first cousin of Boston Patriarca crime family mobster Phillip Baione. He resembled the actor Roderick McDowall when he portrayed "Cornelius" in the 1968 version of "Planet of the Apes."

Zannino was one of the richest mobsters in the New England mob. The Boston Globe stated that that Zannino had a wallet that looks like the inside of the New England Merchants Bank vault and a bookmaking and loansharking operation more successful than most American car companies.

In 1985, FBI agents acquired details on the interiors of two Mafia contolled apartments in the Boston's North End. With court approval, agents picked the locks early in the morning and planted bugs that produced 800 hours of recordings. Ilario Zannino was heard explaining how dangerous it is to kill just one member of the Winter Hill Gang. "If you're clipping people," he said, "I always say, make sure you clip the people around him first. Get them together, 'cause everybody's got a friend. He could be the dirtiest motherfucker in the world, but someone that likes this guy, that's the guy that sneaks you." Zannino and Patriarca family soldier, John Cincotti were complaining to each other about the problems that they were having with the Irish American gang. Cincotti said: "They don't have the scruples that we have." Zannino agreed. "You know how I knew they weren't Italiano? When they bombed the fucking house. We don't do that."

Sent to prison for loansharking and illegal gambling, Ilaro Zannino died on February 27, 1996, of natural causes at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.

References

*Bloom, Robert M. "Ratting: The Use and Abuse of Informants in the American Justice System". Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-275-96818-9
*United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "Organized Criminal Activities: south Florida and U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga." 1980. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC04442345&id=GScUwkp-faMC&q=Ilario+Zannino&dq=Ilario+Zannino&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1]
*United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. "Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act of 1987: Hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary". 1987. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC15143900&id=g0vNJxaY-6YC&q=Ilario+Zannino&dq=Ilario+Zannino&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1]
*United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "Organized Crime: 25 Years After Valachi : Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations". 1988. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC19099088&id=DQeMhDjHx58C&q=Ilario+Zannino&dq=Ilario+Zannino&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1]
*United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. "Oversight Hearing on Organized Crime Strike Forces: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice". 1989. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC20541753&id=YPkIsLYUFoYC&q=Ilario+Zannino&dq=Ilario+Zannino&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1]
*United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "Status of the Department of Justice Organized Crime Strike Forces: Joint Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations". 1990. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC21942313&id=VYzsbMg_lq4C&q=Ilario+Zannino&dq=Ilario+Zannino&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1]

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2D6153FF93AA35750C0A961948260 New York Times: Reputed Mob Leader Guilty in Boston Racketeering Case]
* [http://www.ipsn.org/court_cases/us_vs_zannino.htm United States of America vs. Ilario M. A. Zannino, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]
* [http://www.thebrothersbulger.com/Ilario%20(Larry%20Baione)%20Zannino.htm TheBrothersBulger.com - Ilario (Larry Baione) Zanninno]
* [http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/03-96/03-08-96/zobits.htm SouthCoastToday - Obituaries]