# United States v. Zannino, 895 F.2d 1 (1st Cir. 1990)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-zannino-895-f2d-1/

First Circuit opinion of January 10, 1990 affirming Ilario Zannino's convictions on two gambling counts and one extortionate-credit count, and his 30-year sentence, from the 1981 North End surveillance case.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, January 10, 1990. The opinion begins: "In 1983, defendant-appellant Ilario M.A. Zannino, allegedly a predominant figure in the so-called 'Patriarca Family' of La Cosa Nostra, was indicted by a federal grand jury." The 1983 indictment carried a RICO count and other counts. Zannino was tried separately on three counts only: two counts of conducting an illegal gambling business (18 U.S.C. § 1955) and one extortionate extension of credit (18 U.S.C. § 892(a)). He was convicted on all three. The court affirmed the convictions and the 30-year sentence.

Describing the trial evidence from the 1981 surveillance of 98 Prince Street and 51 North Margin Street, the court writes: "Gennaro Angiulo was at the apex of the criminal pyramid," and "Zannino was a 'Capo Regime' — loosely, a captain — in the Patriarca Family, serving under Angiulo." It also recounts evidence of a barbooth gambling business at a social club in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1980 and 1981.

These are the court's statements of what the trial evidence showed. Zannino was not convicted on the RICO count in this trial.

## Sources

- CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/536025/united-states-v-ilario-ma-zannino/