Omerta was great and all if everyone abided by it. ![]() Salemme, meanwhile, had second thoughts about his criminal career and the rules he lived by. He was old-school, a good guy.” - Profile: Boston Mafia boss Peter Limone On the lam, he was placed on America’s Most Wanted list and wouldn’t be caught until 2011. As details of Bulger’s betrayal surfaced, Whitey was nowhere to be found. The man feared on the streets for his cunningness and deadly capabilities had been working as an FBI informant for several decades. While inside, he learned that his trusted Irish pal was anything but the man he thought he knew. A jury convicted Salemme and he was sentenced to 11 years behind bars. His reign was short-lived, and he and Bulger were indicted in 1995 and charged with racketeering. He survived and with the help of an intervention by New York mob boss John Gotti, who brokered a peace deal between the warring factions, and the backing of Whitey Bulger, Salemme became the man in charge of the Boston Mafia. Violence broke out among various factions and Salemme was shot and wounded in 1989 outside an IHOP restaurant.įBI surveillance photo shows Salemme in white polo shirt, second from the left With Angiulo gone, his former underlings began vying for the top position. The two men forged a bond during the 1960s that helped Salemme become the leader of the Patriarca crime family when the 1990s came around.Īfter the FBI seriously weakened the Patriarca family when it imprisoned boss Jerry Angiulo in 1986, Salemme began plotting his ascension. His murderous actions during the Irish gang wars had already earned Salemme the respect of infamous Irish crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Once he got out, he looked forward to capitalizing on his hard-won credibility. He earned a reputation for being a stand-up guy when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison in the 1970s for his involvement in the bombing of John Fitzgerald, who was the lawyer of Boston hitman-turned-government witness Joseph Barboza. That is not to say Salemme tried his best to earn his boss’ approval. Because Salemme was of mixed heritage – his mother was Irish – Patriarca did not allow him to become a made member. ![]() READ: The Italian Mafia, Irish Gangs, Chinese Tongs: Welcome to Gangland Bostonīut as an Italian, his ultimate loyalty lay with the Italian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, and he became a trusted hitman for mob boss Raymond Patriarca, who headed the New England crime family.Fighting for the Winter Hill gang, he killed eight rival gangsters. He was an enthusiastic participant in the Irish gang wars that ravaged the city in the 1960s. Coming up through the ranks of the Boston underworld, he made no qualms about ending lives. Perhaps Salemme just didn’t prioritize murder the same way most people do. That’s the lesson former Boston Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme learned yesterday when he was sentenced to life in prison for a 1993 murder he forgot to mention when he decided to cooperate with the FBI. Never rat on your friends, but if you do, you better not lie to the feds.
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