Your Daily Hood: Angelo LaPietra

 Angelo J. "The Hook" LaPietra (1920–1999) was a key player in the Chicago Outfit, involved in extensive loansharking operations during the 1970s and 1980s. He earned his nickname "The Hook" due to the way he murdered his victims—those that did not, or could not pay up. He would take his victim—bound and gagged—and hang him on a meat hook, (piercing the victim's rib cage with the meat hook) and then torture him to death with a blow-torch. LaPietra was a top enforcer under Outfit boss Joseph "Joey Doves" Aiuppa. "the Hook" was later indicted along with Aiuppa, Jackie "The Lackey" Cerone, and other 15 others as part of the Las Vega money skimming operation. La Pietra was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment and fined $143,409. In 1999, LaPietra died of natural causes shortly after his release from prison.