# Valachi hearing, October 9, 1963: "the Raymond family"

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-09/

Asked by Senator McIntyre about the Boston area, Joseph Valachi named Phil Buccola as the boss he had met, said he met Patriarca "as a soldier," and said he understood Patriarca was the boss now: "That is what I heard." Testimony, not a finding.

Printed page 394 of Part 1, NCJRS PDF page 421. The date comes from the proceedings index. Senator McIntyre asked who "was the boss or who was the big guy" around Boston. Valachi said: "I met the boss, Phil Buccola, at the time I was there."

On the name of the group he said: "Well, all you call is Boss, or you say the Buccola family. Whoever is the boss, they call it that name ... Now they say there is Raymond there, so you say the Raymond family in Boston or Rhode Island, whichever it is." Asked about Patriarca, he said, "That is after my time. I met him as a soldier when I met him." Asked whether it was his understanding that Patriarca was the boss now, he answered: "Now. That is what I heard." He said he knew only that "they had a crap game going for years and years."

This is a witness's hearsay testimony. It is not a finding, and this archive does not fill a chart seat from it.

## Sources

- National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303): https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/119303NCJRS.pdf
- NCJRS catalog record (NCJ 119303): https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/organized-crime-and-illicit-traffic-narcotics-hearing-us-senate