John DiGilio

Public records regarding Leonard's name change can be found in the County of Sullivan signed by the Honorable Louis B. Scheinman.

On October 16, 1950, DiGilio won his first professional boxing match against Tony Loti in Providence, Rhode Island.

DiGilio stood at 5 foot 7 inches tall and, during his professional boxing career, he weighed in between 147 and 154 pounds (67 to 70 kilos).

As a young man, DiGilio became involved in illegal gambling, loansharking, labor racketeering and extortion in the Genovese family.

In 1986, Fortune Magazine named DiGilio as number 39 on its list of the 50 most powerful Cosa Nostra bosses in the United States.

As DiGilio's criminal activities attracted more law enforcement attention, he started displaying bizarre conduct.

While making his closing arguments, DiGilio dismissed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recordings of him as wikt:"locker room talk" and then dumped hundreds of cassette tapes into a garbage pail.

What especially galled the leadership was that Donald Carson, one of the convicted defendants, was then forced to resign his position as secretary-treasurer of Local 1588.

[4] In 1998, Genovese mobster Louis Auricchio, the brother-in-law of New Jersey senator John A. Lynch, Jr. confessed to shooting DiGilio while they were riding in a car.