No.

But he was Frank Rizzo's son in law. Rizzo was the former chief of police in philly and 2 term mayor.

When he was alive i always said Rizzo was the real boss of South Philly. Not too many people got away with crossing him. Both feared and loved. The press used to compare the philly cops under Rizzo to the Gestapo and Nazi S.S. They supposedly had a real brutal reputation.