Ilario Zannino


Ilario Larry Baione Maria Antonio Zannino was a member of the Patriarca crime family. Zannino was said to be the secondhighestranking figure in the Boston faction of the Patriarca family. He was a paternal nephew or a paternal first cousin of Boston Patriarca crime family mobster Phillip Zannino.

Ilario Zannino was born to Joseph Zannino and Isabella LaGrada and was raised in a house on Shawmut Avenue in South End, Boston. He stood at 57 and weighed 160 pounds with brown eyes and dark brown hair. He is the husband of Isabella Tawa. He was often found bouncing with Stephen Flemmi. He lived for a time in Franklin, MA and graduated from Franklin High School in 1938. His relatives owned a pig farm in Stoughton, Massachusetts where it was believed that the body of murdered GreekAmerican mob associates James Bratsos was buried in 1954. No one has ever been charged in the disappearance of Bratsos. In his high school yearbook, he stated intentions to attend medical school. His classmates called him Zip which later become ironically the same nickname of FBI Special Agent John Connolly who would later successfully prosecute him for his criminal activities. He allegedly stabbed a waiter to death in a South End restaurant for slow service. He was classmates with a future elementary school

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