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Why was Vinnie Piro Waked at Dello Russo in Woburn and Not Medford?https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonherald/obituary.aspx?n=vincent-j-piro&pid=193448114&fhid=4334
Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/23/vinny-piro-colorful-figure-mass-politics-dead/o8IvTOy0Z265Wd6kUswsBN/story.html
Boston Herald
Unfortunately, some of the bills Vinny returned had different serial numbers than the ones he’d accepted.
Many theories later circulated about why Piro had returned the dough. One was that he’d been at a Bruins game with a girlfriend, and that she’d recognized the fed as a guy she’d known when they were growing up together in Dorchester. One day I ran that rumor past Vinnie.
“Number one,” he said, “I don’t have a girlfriend. Number two, who the bleep goes to Bruins games?”
The indictment came at a particularly inopportune moment for Vinnie. The local Somerville-Medford state Senate seat had just opened up with Denis McKenna’s retirement.
It was always said McKenna only had one “n” in his first name because he hadn’t had have time to steal the second one. McKenna had three aides — two of whom were aldermen and all of whom had either served time or been indicted by the feds. One of them was his son.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/07/22/rip-vinnie-piro-somerville-will-never-be-the-same/
