By Cary Shuman
He has been a voice of experience on the Winthrop Town Council for a decade. Before that he was a member of the Charter Commission that spearheaded the town's conversion to a new form of government. He has lived in Winthrop his entire life and dedicated a lifetime to public service here, dating back to his days as a Town Meeting member and vice chairman of the Democratic Town Committee in the 1970s.
He has been a leader in community service organizations, rising to the position of national president of the Sons of Italy and the Italian-American Bar Association and the state president of the Mass. Justinian Society. He is a life member of the Winthrop Lodge of Elks and its current presiding justice.