Anthony Veranis, also known as "Mickey White" and "Tony" (June 15, 1938 – April 25, 1966) was an associate of the Winter Hill Gang and a professional welterweight boxer.
Veranis told a Boston Herald reporter several months before his gangland murder, "Boxing got me out of trouble - it does that for a lot of kids."
He trained with Joe DeNucci, George W. Holden, Joseph Barboza, Rocco DiSiglio, Rico Sacramone and Edward G. Connors' younger brother James.
He attended public high school in Boston and was considered by officials in the Massachusetts correctional system to be a "persistent delinquent" when he was prepubescent to the time of a teenager.
As Veranis was incarcerated in 1950 at Lyman Correctional School, he was anonymously involved in the Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (UJD) study conducted by Harvard University professors Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor (Touroff) Glueck, discovering the causes of juvenile delinquency and adult crime and assessing the overall effectiveness of correctional treatment in controlling criminal careers.
While serving time there, infamous boxer and fight manager Clement Stein Jr. saw him in bouts and got him enlisted in an amateur boxing league when he was released.
On July 25, 1957, he fought Eddie Prince and was hard pressed to win an eight-round split decision.
On August 27, 1958, he fought against Gene Lopes, as a last minute substitute replacement in Fall River, Massachusetts, and won.
Murphy rose up off the ring floor but was badly battered when referee Eddie Curley called a stop to the match.
Anthony himself started to suffer from extremely bad migraines, nausea, blurry vision with the inability to focus, and temporary mood swings that changed his behavior.
It is also thought that not being able to box anymore caused him severe depression which brought him to start drinking heavily and becoming incapacitated with alcohol on a regular basis.
Father John Fitzgerald of St. Joseph's Church in Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Norfolk later said, "He wanted to get straightened out, and I think he did.
On April 25, 1966, a month after his release from prison John Martorano beat Anthony savagely and shot him in the head in Quincy, Massachusetts.