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Gerry Lang died in prison - 12/25/13 01:45 AM
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Gennaro Langella, a high-ranking member of the US mafia, has died while serving a 100-year prison sentence for racketeering and extortion.
The 74-year-old, widely known as ‘Gerry Lang’ by investigators, mafia experts and his fellow gangsters, died on Sunday at the US Medical Center for Prisons in Missouri – a hospital designed for federal inmates.
Already in prison for mafia crimes, Langella was convicted as the underboss of New York’s notorious Colombo crime family in 1986, during a trial that has gone done as one of the most important in the history of American organised crime.
The 74-year-old, widely known as ‘Gerry Lang’ by investigators, mafia experts and his fellow gangsters, died on Sunday at the US Medical Center for Prisons in Missouri – a hospital designed for federal inmates.
Already in prison for mafia crimes, Langella was convicted as the underboss of New York’s notorious Colombo crime family in 1986, during a trial that has gone done as one of the most important in the history of American organised crime.
Gennaro Langella dead