on january 20, 2010, palminteri guested on "modern family" and played the same character on the november 2, 2011, episode. palminteri has reprised the role twice more in season 5. in june 2010, palminteri began guest-starring on the tnt crime drama "rizzoli & isles" as frank rizzoli, sr. he guest starred twice on the cbs drama "blue bloods" as angelo gallo, a mob lawyer and childhood friend of main character frank reagan.