Richard Boiardo

Ruggiero Boiardo (December 8, 1890 – October 29, 1984), also known as "Richard Boiardo," "the Boot," or "Diamond Ritchie," was an Italian-American organized crime figure who got his start as a bootlegger during Prohibition, then emerged as one of the foremost mobsters in the greater Newark area, acting as a caporegime in the New Jersey faction of the Genovese crime family for over three decades.