Paul Frank Vario was a caporegime, a made man in the American Mafia. A fictional character based on Vario named Paul Cicero was featured in the film Goodfellas.
Paul Vario was born in New York City, where he later became a member of the Lucchese Crime Family. In 1925, at age eleven, Vario was sentenced to seven months in juvenile detention for truancy.
Source: Wikipedia