Joseph J. C. DiCarlo (March 21, 1936 – October 22, 2020) was an American politician who served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court.

[2] Prior to entering politics, DiCarlo was a junior high school history teacher in Revere.

[4] He upset Della Russo in the Democratic primary and went on to win the general election.

[7] On August 13, 1976, a grand jury indicted DiCarlo and fellow Senator Ronald MacKenzie on charges that they extorted $40,000 from a consulting company.

According to the indictment, DiCarlo and Mackenzie threatened McKee-Berger-Mansueto, Inc. (MBM), the consulting company supervising construction of the University of Massachusetts Boston campus at Columbia Point, with an unfavorable report from the legislative committee investigating their contract unless they were paid.

[18] He lost the Democratic primary to Frank J. Mastrocola, Jr., a 24-year-old one-term Alderman from Everett who ran on the slogan "If DiCarlo Wins, Massachusetts Loses".

Rather than work at his family's North End furniture store, he eventually accepted a job with a Revere construction company.