Joey D'Angelo
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Joey D'Angelo is an Italian inmate on the HBO drama Oz played by Goodfella Mike G. He appears in Season 1 assisting Nino Schibetta in their many operations throughout Oz.
[edit] Season 1
The Italians run the kitchen and drug trade in Oz. D'Angelo is a solider of the Italians taking orders mainly from Nino Schibetta. He overlooks the Black inmates, the Homeboys led by Jefferson Keane to keep the peace in the drug trade. When Keane on help from inmate Ryan O'Reilly kills Dino Ortolani, Schibetta's protege, he states that no drug dealing will occur until Dino's killers are found. He then assists the other Italians in killing Johnny Post, the Homeboy who carried out the hit. The Homeboys start hassling D'Angelo in the gym,but he is a skilled fighter and manages to take out Adebisi and Markstrom before being pinned down by Jefferson Keane. Keane also dies shortly afterwards when he receives the death penalty for killing a Latino inmate. After this happens the prison is locked down but the Black inmates are still ready for war. D'Angelo also has a side battle with Ryan O'Reilly who convinces Simon Adebisi and new Homeboy Kenny Wangler look to eliminate D'Angelo, a task that they accomplish in a kitchen "accident."
