The Piranio relocation to Dallas, Texas, occurred sometime between the marriage and the Shreveport birth of Angelo in 1904.
The household included Carlo and Clementia, young Angelo, and Joseph Piranio and his new bride Lena.
He owned a number of bars, controlled numerous gambling operations, and ran some minor labor rackets through his construction business.
The family remained in West Baton Rouge until 1923, when Philip relocated the clan to Dallas and opened a grocery store.
His arrest was part of a series of raids that nabbed a total of twenty-two suspected bootleggers around the city.
DeCarlo was an important bootlegger in the Dallas area and had recently begun refusing to send tribute payments to Carlo Piranio.
Rather than flee, Civello remained with the mortally wounded DeCarlo, protesting that his weapon had fired by accident.
The grand jury continued its investigation into DeCarlo's death and decided on July 27 not to indict Civello.
Civello attended the infamous Apalachin Meeting of Mafia leaders in 1957, a time when he controlled narcotics, gambling, prostitution and night clubs in most of Texas.
Judge Irving R. Kaufman sentenced him and nineteen other mob leaders that were at Apalachin to five years in prison.
Ianni's only legal trouble was a 1946 liquor law violation and he was reported only to have nothing more than a "vague association" with Marcello.