Overview

• His obituary lists visiting hours on Sept. 25 at the Ruggiero Family Memorial Home in East Boston, a Friday morning procession to St. Leonard’s Church, and burial at Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden.
• In a 2006 FBI undercover operation, he admitted delivering $10,000 to someone he believed was a state inspector to help secure a Big Dig loam contract, resulting in a federal guilty plea.
• Related to the federal case, he pleaded guilty in Essex County to extortion, promoting an illegal gambling operation, and conspiring to violate state gaming laws.
• An FBI affidavit filed in federal court described him as a made member who became underboss in 2004, a portrayal his attorney, Anthony Cardinale, publicly denied.
• Accounts differ on his prison time, with one report citing a six-year federal sentence in 2009 and another saying he served five years.