# Former Mafia Boss and Associate Sentenced to Life in Prison for 1993 Murder (U.S. Attorney, District of Rhode Island, 2018)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ri-salemme-sentenced-2018-09-13/

Press release of September 13, 2018: Judge Allison D. Burroughs sentenced Francis P. Salemme and Paul M. Weadick to life in prison in federal court in Boston for the 1993 murder of Steven A. DiSarro.

Press release posted by the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, September 13, 2018, with a Boston dateline. "Francis P. Salemme, 85, and Paul M. Weadick, 63, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to life in prison," after their June 22, 2018 conviction for murder of a federal witness.

The release states: "In the early 1990s, Salemme was the boss of the NELCN," and "In 1995 Salemme was indicted on federal racketeering charges and convicted in 1999. He was subsequently convicted of obstruction of justice in 2008." It describes the killing as the jury's verdict established it. This page does not repeat the release's account of the residence where it took place.

## Sources

- U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Rhode Island: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ri/pr/former-mafia-boss-and-associate-sentenced-life-prison-1993-murder