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When Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, fugitive boss of the Patriarca organized crime family, was rudely yanked from his modest, Florida hideaway a week ago, it was another sign of the ...
Even as FBI agents and prosecutors collected congratulatory notes last week, savoring what amounted to a staggering victory over the Patriarca crime family, that nagging, persistent question kept ...
PROVIDENCE – A onetime associate of the Patriarca crime family turned himself in Wednesday and began serving a five-year sentence at the Adult Correctional Institutions for the “brutal assault ...
Four members of the Patriarca crime family took the oath of secrecy to join the crime family. Little did they know that the FBI was secretly recording the whole thing. Target 12 Investigator Tim ...
A heist in which a group of small-time criminals robbed a fur storage vault that was actually the private "bank" of Boston's Raymond Patriarca crime family is the subject of a new movie being ...
He was 77. Lato, of Johnston, had been a longtime fixture in the Patriarca crime family, with an underworld résumé to show for it. His criminal career spanned six decades and included more than ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The reputed former leader of New England's Patriarca crime family has been arrested in Florida, and another alleged mob associate has been picked up in Rhode Island as part ...
Salemme's death was first reported Sunday by WPRI-TV. Salemme led the Patriarca crime family in Boston in the early 1990s before helping prosecutors convict a corrupt FBI agent after learning that ...
Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the head of the Patriarca crime family, has died at the age of 89. At the time of his death, the former New England Mafia boss was serving a life sentence ...