Another brain surgeon. Carmen Tortora went to prison for leaving death threats on the phone answering machine of a loanshark victim. Angiulo and Baione joked about bringing him a “machine-gun cake” in prison. Attended Mafia initiation in Medford 1990. Brother ran for the state Senate when Billy Bulger was president.
 

One of the four inductees at the infamous Guild Street Mafia initiation, 1989. Tortora, born in 1947, had done time after leaving a death threat on a telephone voice-mail belonging to a guy who’d fallen behind on his payments to a loanshark. Before he went away, he was brought to Prince Street to say goodbye to underboss Gerry Angiulo and his muscle Larry Baione, and afterwards they joked that they should send Carmen a “machine-gun cake.” Bureau of Prisons number: 12573-038. Released from prison: 8-02-01.