Angelo Lonardo

Angelo Anthony Lonardo (January 21, 1911 − March 31, 2006) was an American mobster who became the acting boss of the Cleveland crime family in the early 1980s.

Criminal career Lonardo was born in Cleveland in 1911 to Joseph and Concetta Lonardo. His godfather was Anthony Milano. The Lonardo family had immigrated to the United States from Licata in Sicily in the early 20th century and settled in the Woodland district of Cleveland.

During the Prohibition era, Lonardo's father and uncles were involved in a gang war with the Porrello brothers over control of sugar distribution to regional bootleggers. As a family soldier, Lonardo was designated with collecting protection money from casinos in Northern Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania, and he eventually worked his way up to underboss in 1976. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland.