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Raymond J. Patriarca

Son of Raymond L. S. Patriarca. Charged in 1990 under RICO with Travel Act predicates; the Government said he was the former boss of the family named after his father, and the court listed him as its alleged "Boss." Federal court records only.

Aliases
Junior
Family
Patriarca Family, in the Government's position as the First Circuit summarized it (1991)
Role
"the former Boss of the New England Mafia Family bearing his name," according to the Government as the First Circuit summarized it (1991); the alleged "Boss," as the district court listed the indictment's charges (1991)
Source
United States v. Patriarca, 948 F.2d 789 (1st Cir. 1991)
Rights
Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.

On the record

  • July 1984 — United States v. Patriarca, 948 F.2d 789 (1st Cir. 1991), summarizing the Government's position: "Patriarca assumed leadership of the Patriarca Family following the death of his father in July 1984 and held it until he was demoted following his indictment in this case."
  • 29 October 1989 — United States v. Ferrara, 771 F. Supp. 1266 (D. Mass. 1991): the FBI recorded an induction ceremony at 34 Guild Street, Medford, Massachusetts. The First Circuit records the district court's finding that he "had presided at a Mafia induction ceremony."
  • 22 March 1990 — He was arrested; the indictment of that day "charges Patriarca with two counts under RICO ... and five counts of violating the Travel Act" (948 F.2d 789; 776 F. Supp. 593).
  • 15 April 1991 — United States v. Ferrara lists the defendants: "Raymond J. Patriarca, the alleged 'Boss' of the Family." The court refused to suppress the Medford recording.
  • 21 June 1991 — United States v. Patriarca, 776 F. Supp. 593 (D. Mass. 1991): the court found the Government had not shown that he should stay detained and set release conditions.
  • 28 October 1991 — 948 F.2d 789: the First Circuit, with one reservation on which it remanded, agreed that the Government had not met its burden for detention. It records the district court's finding that he "had been demoted from Boss, largely because the organization held him responsible for allowing the FBI to tape the induction ceremony."

This page is for the son. His father has his own page, Raymond Patriarca. The 776 F. Supp. opinion gives the alias “Junior.”

The family and role lines quote the Government’s position as the First Circuit summarized it in a detention appeal, and the indictment’s allegation as the district court listed it. They are not a jury’s verdict. No outcome of the 1990 indictment appears in a record filed here. Both opinions also discuss personal matters bearing on detention; this page leaves them out. No birth date is given in an opened record.

Records

itemUnited States v. Patriarca, 948 F.2d 789 (1st Cir. 1991)First Circuit opinion of October 28, 1991 on the bail appeal of Raymond J. Patriarca, the son, summarizing the Government's position that he assumed leadership of the Patriarca Family after the death of his father in July 1984.itemUnited States v. Patriarca, 776 F. Supp. 593 (D. Mass. 1991)District court ruling of June 21, 1991 that the Government had not shown that Raymond J. Patriarca, charged under RICO with Travel Act predicates, should stay detained before trial; release conditions were set.itemUnited States v. Ferrara, 771 F. Supp. 1266 (D. Mass. 1991)District court memorandum of April 15, 1991 refusing to suppress the FBI's recording of the October 29, 1989 induction ceremony at 34 Guild Street, Medford, Massachusetts, which the court calls apparently the first such interception anywhere.itemUnited States v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2d 141 (D. Mass. 1999)Judge Wolf's memorandum of September 15, 1999 setting out, after long hearings, the FBI's relationship with informants Stephen Flemmi and James Bulger, the 1981 bugging of 98 Prince Street and the 1989 Medford recording. Reversed in part in 2000.