# New England Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/regions/new-england/ Providence and Boston in federal records: the 1963 Senate testimony on Raymond Patriarca, the FBI's 1962 to 1965 microphone in Providence, the 1968 Patriarca and Deegan cases, the 1981 surveillance of 98 Prince Street and the Angiulo RICO trial, the 1989 Medford recording, and the Bulger, Flemmi, Salemme and Connolly cases. This section holds federal records about organized crime in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Each statement below comes from the record linked beside it. Many of the records are testimony, police intelligence, indictments or the Government's position in a bail hearing, and the text says which. Where a court states what the trial evidence showed, the text says so. ## Prohibition: the Black Duck, 1929 On December 29, 1929 a Coast Guard patrol boat fired on the rum boat Black Duck off Newport, Rhode Island, killing three men and wounding the helmsman. Wire reports name the dead as a Providence man, a Boston man and a Fairhaven man, and say the Providence man had been admitted to bail on a federal Prohibition conspiracy charge ([Washington Times, December 30](/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-12-30-p2/)). Further pages report the survivor's account ([Milwaukee Leader](/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-12-30-p3/)), a Coast Guard inquiry held in secrecy ([Springfield Weekly Republican](/clippings/clip-springfield-weekly-republican-1930-01-02-p1/)) and a Rhode Island inquest ([Evening Star, January 3, 1930](/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-01-03-p4/)). None of these pages ties the men to an organized group. ## Providence and the Senate, 1959 to 1965 The record of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations states that Raymond Patriarca appeared before the McClellan committee on February 11, 1959; the staff summary of that testimony was filed but not printed ([October 15, 1963](/items/psi-1963-stone-rhode-island-1963-10-15/)). From March 6, 1962 to July 12, 1965 the FBI kept a microphone, installed by trespass, at 168 Atwells Avenue in Providence. The district court in [United States v. Taglianetti](/items/courtlistener-us-v-taglianetti-274-f-supp-220/) printed the address without naming the occupant; [House Report 108-414](/items/hrpt-108-414-everything-secret-degenerates-2004/) quotes a 1967 Justice Department memorandum that calls it Patriarca's place of business. A federal court in 2007 also found that the FBI installed the device without a warrant ([Limone](/items/courtlistener-limone-v-us-497-f-supp-2d-143/)). The Supreme Court ruled on what the surveillance records a defendant could see in [394 U.S. 316](/items/courtlistener-taglianetti-v-us-394-us-316/). In the 1963 hearings Joseph Valachi testified that Patriarca was introduced to him as a member of the Cosa Nostra ([October 2](/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-02/)), and that he had heard in prison that Patriarca was the new boss in Boston ([October 8](/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-08/); [October 9](/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-09/)). On October 15 the Rhode Island State Police and the Boston Police testified from their own intelligence and entered a chart of the "Rhode Island and Boston, Mass." organization as Exhibit 53 ([Rhode Island testimony](/items/psi-1963-stone-rhode-island-1963-10-15/); [Boston testimony](/items/psi-1963-boston-police-1963-10-15/)). The Boston witnesses said they were "not cognizant" that the men they named were members of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra. This is testimony and police intelligence, and the chart's labels are not copied onto any family page. An FBI airtel of July 1961 in another file lists Patriarca at Boston among selected "hoodlums" ([airtel](/items/fbi-vault-balistrieri-p01-criminal-intelligence-program-airtel-1961/)). ## The 1968 cases The First Circuit affirmed the convictions of Patriarca, Ronald J. Cassesso and Henry Tameleo for conspiring to travel and use the telephone in interstate commerce with intent to commit murder to further an unlawful gambling enterprise ([402 F.2d 314](/items/courtlistener-patriarca-v-us-402-f2d-314/)). The prosecution's chief witness was Joseph Barboza. Barboza was also the witness against four men convicted in 1968 of the 1965 Deegan murder. In 2007 a federal court found that those convictions rested on his perjured testimony and that the FBI agents handling him knew it; the convictions had been vacated, and the First Circuit affirmed damages of over $100 million against the United States ([497 F. Supp. 2d 143](/items/courtlistener-limone-v-us-497-f-supp-2d-143/); [579 F.3d 79](/items/courtlistener-limone-v-us-579-f3d-79/)). ## 98 Prince Street and the Angiulo trial, 1981 to 1990 From January 19 to May 3, 1981 the FBI monitored an apartment at 98 Prince Street in Boston's North End under court order ([Cintolo](/items/courtlistener-us-v-cintolo-818-f2d-980/)). The recordings were the main evidence in a 1983 indictment. After an eight-month trial the First Circuit affirmed the RICO convictions of Gennaro, Donato and Francesco Angiulo and Samuel Granito, describing the trial evidence about the organization headquartered at 98 Prince Street ([897 F.2d 1169](/items/courtlistener-us-v-angiulo-897-f2d-1169/)). Ilario Zannino was tried separately on gambling and extortionate-credit counts ([895 F.2d 1](/items/courtlistener-us-v-zannino-895-f2d-1/)), and three other defendants, among them John Cincotti, whom the court connects with poker games at 51 North Margin Street, in [847 F.2d 956](/items/courtlistener-us-v-angiulo-847-f2d-956/). A 1981 race-fixing RICO case from Boston, unrelated to Prince Street, is [United States v. Winter](/items/courtlistener-us-v-winter-663-f2d-1120/). ## Medford, 1989, and the Patriarca case On October 29, 1989 the FBI recorded an induction ceremony at 34 Guild Street, Medford, Massachusetts under a roving-interception order. The district court called it "apparently for the first time anywhere" ([771 F. Supp. 1266](/items/courtlistener-us-v-ferrara-771-f-supp-1266/)). The March 22, 1990 indictment charged [Raymond J. Patriarca](/people/raymond-j-patriarca/), the son, and others; the Government's position and the bail rulings are in [776 F. Supp. 593](/items/courtlistener-us-v-patriarca-776-f-supp-593/) and [948 F.2d 789](/items/courtlistener-us-v-patriarca-948-f2d-789/). ## Informants and the 1995 indictment On January 10, 1995 a grand jury indicted James Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, Francis Salemme and others. Bulger fled; Salemme was arrested about eight months later ([341 F.3d 16](/items/courtlistener-us-v-connolly-341-f3d-16/)). An FBI Boston memorandum of June 1995 summarizes the indictment's allegations ([Bulger Part 05](/items/fbi-vault-bulger-p05-boston-memo-1995-06-23/)). Judge Wolf's 1999 findings set out the FBI's long use of Flemmi and Bulger as informants ([91 F. Supp. 2d 141](/items/courtlistener-us-v-salemme-91-f-supp-2d-141/); see also [978 F. Supp. 343](/items/courtlistener-us-v-salemme-978-f-supp-343/)); the First Circuit reversed his immunity ruling ([225 F.3d 78](/items/courtlistener-us-v-flemmi-225-f3d-78/)). The former agent John Connolly was convicted in 2002 ([341 F.3d 16](/items/courtlistener-us-v-connolly-341-f3d-16/); [504 F.3d 206](/items/courtlistener-us-v-connolly-504-f3d-206/)). Civil suits over the FBI's conduct are [McIntyre](/items/courtlistener-mcintyre-v-us-367-f3d-38/) and [Donahue](/items/courtlistener-donahue-v-us-634-f3d-615/). A Rhode Island extortion case of 1994 and 1995 is [United States v. DeLuca](/items/courtlistener-us-v-deluca-137-f3d-24/). ## Later cases, 2011 to 2018 Bulger was arrested in California in June 2011, convicted in 2013 and sentenced to two consecutive life terms ([conviction](/items/usao-ma-bulger-convicted-2013-08-12/); [sentence](/items/usao-ma-bulger-sentenced-2013-11-14/); [appeal](/items/courtlistener-us-v-bulger-816-f3d-137/)). His Alcatraz card of 1959, from a 1956 bank-robbery sentence, is [also filed](/items/nara-236734663-whitey-bulger-alcatraz-1959/). In Rhode Island, Luigi Manocchio and Edward Lato were sentenced in 2012 for extortion of adult entertainment businesses ([Manocchio](/items/doj-opa-manocchio-sentenced-2012-05-11/); [Lato](/items/doj-opa-lato-sentenced-2012-06-13/)). Salemme was convicted in 2018 of the 1993 murder of a federal witness and sentenced to life ([arrest](/items/usao-ma-salemme-arrest-2016-08-10/); [verdict](/items/usao-ma-salemme-convicted-2018-06-22/); [sentence](/items/usao-ri-salemme-sentenced-2018-09-13/)). ## People Person pages give a family or role only where a federal record on the page states one, and label its kind: [Raymond Patriarca](/people/raymond-patriarca/) (none stated), [Raymond J. Patriarca](/people/raymond-j-patriarca/), [Gennaro Angiulo](/people/gennaro-angiulo/), [Ilario Zannino](/people/ilario-zannino/), [Samuel Granito](/people/samuel-granito/), [Henry Tameleo](/people/henry-tameleo/), [Joseph Barboza](/people/joseph-barboza/), [Francis Salemme](/people/francis-salemme/), [Stephen Flemmi](/people/stephen-flemmi/), [James Bulger](/people/james-bulger/), [John Connolly](/people/john-connolly/), [H. Paul Rico](/people/h-paul-rico/), [John Morris](/people/john-morris/), [Luigi Manocchio](/people/luigi-manocchio/) and [Edward Lato](/people/edward-lato/). ## Not filed yet The printed McClellan committee testimony of February 11, 1959 has not been located; only the 1963 record's note of it is filed. No FBI Vault file is named for Raymond Patriarca, and no federal photograph of Patriarca, Angiulo or Salemme has been found. No Kefauver Committee testimony from Massachusetts or Rhode Island has been opened for this section. Evening Star pages of 1959 and 1963 on Patriarca are post-1930 issues and are not filed as clippings. Not yet opened: the outcome of the 1990 Patriarca indictment, the 2001 Flemmi opinion, the Rakes and Callahan suits, the 2008 Salemme obstruction case, Bulger Vault Parts 02 to 04 and 06 to 15, and the Justice Department inspector general's material.