Nicholas Giso

Nicholas Giso

DOB 7-14-23. In the 1981 FBI bugs on the Mafia’s Prince Street headquarters, the underboss, Gerry Angiulo, was picked up ranting about how Liz had to be killed becase she was a “detriment, a jeopardy, a danger” to the Mob. What she had was a big mouth. On March 20, 1984, the 27-year-old Liz was asked to show up at a bar on Commercial Street (in the same location where Joe Barboza associates Tash Bratsos and Tommy DePrisco had been murdered in 1967). She was told to wear a cowboy hat she owned because, allegedly, the boys thought she looked good in it. As Liz sat at the bar someone wearing a mask strolled in, walked straight to the woman wearing a hat, and then opened fire.
“What do I know?” she said. “I was high. Two bullets went through my hat and the third grazed my head.”
Her luck ran out in 1988 when she was sentenced to 9-to-10 years at MCI-Framingham for a brazen series of East Boston housebreaks and the theft of $80,000 in jewelery from the Meridian Hotel in the Financial District.

Another guy who had a problem at the Nite Lite. He was running around with a crazy woman who was not his wife, and the decision was made to dispose of her. Nicky was told to bring her to the barroom on Commercial Street, wearing a cowboy hat. That id’ed for the shooters who burst in and shot the girl in the cowboy hat in the head. She survived.

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