Angelo Gyp DeCarlo: New Jersey Genovese Capo

Angelo Gyp DeCarlo was a mobster from Mountainside, New Jersey, who exerted a strong influence on New Jersey elected officials during his career. Through the mayor of Newark and various legislatures Gyp selected the person who became the head of the New Jersey state police. He also carried out some heinous crimes, the most well known of which was the arsenic poisoning of Louis Saperstein, a Newark insurance broker who became hopelessly in debt to the Mafia. Saperstein became vulnerable to the mob when he realized that he could no longer pay the $5,000 interest per week that he owed the mob. He was killed in 1968.