Record

Hearing

1963-10-09

National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303)

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

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.

Date: 1963-10-09
Kind: hearing
Source: National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics: Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 88th Cong., 1st sess., Part 1
Rights: A work of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The NCJRS cover sheet records reproduction permission as "Public Domain / U.S. Senate."

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.

itemValachi hearing, October 8, 1963: Valachi on Patriarca and the Boston bossesJoseph Valachi testified that he met Raymond Patriarca around 1939 or 1940, that Patriarca was a member, and that he heard in prison that Patriarca had become the boss in Boston after Joe Bruno and Phil Buccola. Testimony, not a finding.itemHearing, October 15, 1963: Rhode Island State Police testimony on Raymond L. PatriarcaColonel Walter E. Stone, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, read a statement on Raymond L. Patriarca to the Senate subcommittee, entered the Rhode Island half of the Exhibit 53 chart, and the record notes Patriarca's 1959 appearance before the McClellan committee.itemHearing of October 9, 1963: final day of Part 1The last day of Valachi's public testimony, with further New York police and staff witnesses. The chairman stated a chart total of 338 persons, 289 of them identified by Valachi.