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Have a good sentence, Arthur Gianelli
By Howie Carr | Thursday, October 8, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Now that gangster Arthur Gianelli is off the board for the next 271 months or so, I’d like to leave him with two words:

Dale Carnegie.

Poor Arthur, the brother-in-law of Zip Connolly, the crooked FBI agent now doing life in Florida for a gangland hit. If only Gianelli had tried even once to Win Friends and Influence People, he might have had a better chance of beating the racketeering rap the feds just took him down on.

Look on the bright side, though, Arthur. You’re 51. You won’t be much over 70 when you finish your bit.

Arthur had all sorts of businesses going. In other words, he had customers. But Arthur never heard that the customer is always right. Here he is, on a 2003 state police bug, describing the president of some place called the Union Club:

“He’s one of these guys Jack that thinks he’s the (bleeping) president of the United States instead of that (bleepin’) (bleep-)hole club . . . You’re talking to a (bleeping) janitor, you know.”

Next, we come to Arthur Gianelli’s conversation in February 2004 with his girlfriend, one Daniele Mazzei. He wants her to stop gossiping about his rackets because, he says, “I have no friends. OK? (Bleep) ’em all.”

Mazzei: “I have no friends either. You’re the only person that I ever had as a friend.”

Gianelli: “OK. OK.”

Mazzei: “I don’t have anybody. I have you and I have my aunt and that’s about it.”

Gianelli: “All right. All right.”

Mazzei: “And my daughter. And I still feel that way. I still feel like -”

Gianelli: “ALL RIGHT!”

Don’t you just love pillow talk? Next he brings up another gangster Mazzei once knew, who used to have his old girlfriends strangled by a guy named Bulger.

Gianelli: “I told you about that (bleepin’) Stevie Flemmi from day one. Do you understand that you were gonna go into the (bleepin’) ground?”

Mazzei: “I’m lucky I’m not dead.”

Gianelli: “I think you get high and you get (bleeped) up and your mind gets fogged.”

Mazzei: “I don’t even smoke pot anymore, you understand?”

Gianelli: “Well, you got enough pills in your pocketbook I guess so, I mean -”

Mazzei: “What? I got enough pills in my pocketbook?”

Gianelli: “Yeah, what do you think, I don’t hear all these stories? You think I’m that (bleepin’) stupid?”

Mazzei: “I have prescriptions for every single thing that I have and you know exactly what I have.”

Goodbye Arthur Gianelli. See you in 2031, give or take a year. But something tells me there are some things about the next 271 months that he’s not going to miss, and one of them is named Daniele Mazzei.
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