Luigi Marino was a soldato in the Salieri crime family of Chicago. A former assassin for Don Ennio Salieri, Marino retired from his trade and settled down serving as bartender at Salieri's Bar in Little Italy. He was imprisoned in 1938 due to the testimony of his son-in-law and Salieri family turncoat Tommy Angelo.
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Born to an Italian family in Sicily, Marino immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, and began working for the Salieri crime family and Ennio Salieri. He served as Salieri's go-to hitman, gaining a lethal and fearful reputation as a ruthless killer. He also became a family man, getting married with a wife and a daughter, Sarah. After a multitude of contract killings, Marino was arrested by the Chicago Police Department and spent time in a county jail. While serving his sentence, and at the insistence of his wife, Marino decided to abandon his life of crime, and after being released, took up Salieri's offer working humbly as a bartender at his establishment. Marino's marriage became gradually unstable, with his wife turning to alcoholism and becoming physically abusive towards him, once stabbing him through the hand with a knitting needle, which resulted in Sarah becoming quite adept at healing people up. By 1932, Sarah and newly made Salieri soldato Tommy Angelo began dating, and Marino approved of their relationship, asking Angelo to escort Sarah to her apartment after a gang of boys began making sexual advances at her; the two would ultimately marry in 1933 and have a daughter. During Salieri's war with his rival Marcu Morello and his family in 1935, Marino helped in the fight, protecting Salieri's bar from Morello's men. In 1938, after his longtime friend and Salieri family caporegime Sam Trapani killed their partner Paulie Lombardo on Salieri's orders, Angelo killed Trapani and turned on the family, going into hiding with Sarah and their daughter before coming back to Chicago to testify against Salieri and his subordinates, including Marino, who was arrested and went to prison after Angelo's cooperation.