Hi everyone. I've been a big fan of the site for a while now all the way from London and due to the fact I browse so much I had to join!

Anyway my post is regarding Gennaro Langella the old Colombo underboss. He seemed to have made his way up the family pretty rapidly but I haven't heard much about him at all in relation to his position and the fact he went away in the commission trial. Also he must have been a young high flyer in such powerful positions in his late thirties and early 40s.

Anyone have any info/rare pics??

Good question wad he real tight with the persico clan

Im sure he was if he was in the ub position back then

why isn't he as well known? and there isnt much info on him... such a young guy to be acting boss and u.b but i know hardly anything of his personality and career.

this guy was a beast you ever read the wiretape were gotti is mad about lang(acting boss) and i think donnie shacks going to pauls white house and getting treated like crap. paul would watch them threw his videogate or somthing its out there. that lang guy is top 10 american mafia old dons alive. even if he never was boss that guys a legend and probaly still got say on the street like jimmy ida or bobby manna.

I´m sure Carmine Persico loves the guy. Langella is molded in the same form as Persico. Tough and ballsy. Langella had by age 24 been picked up as a prime suspect in a number of killings but never served any time for murder. During the second Gallo/Colombo war, Langella served as Alphonse Persico´s bodyguard. After the assassination of two honest business men in a Manhattan restaurant in 1972, newspapers speculated in who the actual intended targets were. According to NY Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy they were Alphonse Persico (Carmine´s brother), Alphonse Persico (Carmine´s son) and Gerry Langella. A fourth man was mentioned also as being part of this group but was never identified.

Langella was made in 1976, or 1977, made a captain not long afterwards, served as acting consigliere in 1980, made underboss in 1981, functioned as acting boss between 1981 and 1985 when he was indicted in the Commission case. (Carmine Persico was jailed 1981 to 1984, and fled another indictment in 1985.) In 1987, Langella was sentenced to 65 years in prison.

Here is a pretty rare photo of Langella, taken while being questioned by a police officer in a murder case in the early 1960s.

pmac- do you really still think he carries any power currently? And has he any offspring coming up? Or already up?!

Hairy Knuckles what great info and picture! Shame this guy wasn't on the streets longer. Maybe would of given the Colombos some much needed stability and authority.

does Jimmy Ida still hold weight on the streets?

If he ever gets out i guess he will but at this point in his 70s with no foreseeable release date i doubt it.

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...p;x=47&y=18

yea Camarel hes prob gonna die in jail.

What's up with this dudes mugshot? He has shit all over his face, is it acne in combo with patchy beard, hard to tell cause black and white

Langella was related to persico through marriage . As for jimmy Ida , he is gonna die in prison , he was a very powerful guy , Barney bellomo was scared stiff of him

Does he have a skin disease?

it's a beard. here's a picture of a much older Gerry Lang

He has a son Vinny..lives on SI

Really shitty beard then lol

His nephew Anthony stripoli is a Colombo soldier and a player and maybe even a caporegime

Jimmy Ida doesn't have any say in that family. He was a pawn for Matty I. He was a killer, but he couldn't hold shit next to Barney.

Bobby manna yes,

RIP jerry lang

Is Jerry Lang dead?

Is Jerry gone bye bye?

Lang is still alive. I think Domwood74 is referring to the medical emergency at the prison in Missouri that Lang is at. Don't know if it was Lang that had the minor stroke or another mob guy, but the person is still alive. Or Domwood74 might be referring to Lang never getting out and dying in prison. Gennaro was one of the first one's made when the books opened back up in New York in the mid 1970's. There is a rumor that he was made when the books were closed, I don't believe that.

Jerry lang has died at a medical facility in Kansas

No news articles or reports confirming his death.

I figured Capeci would have said something on it, too, but nothing yet.

I've not seen anything either , I heard this story from somebody claiming to be his cousin , not sure why he would have a reason to lie , but u never know

This is very interesting: http://www.bop.gov/Locate/

Search Gennaro Langella . . . It says he was released 2 days ago

Yeah prob in a body bag if he has died

That would make sense because the inmate locator lists deceased inmates as released

It must be true then , I know he wasn't ever due for parole , if he was it wouldn't have been anytime soon