Worcester Hotel meeting in 1959

[furiofromnaples]

Furio, Frank Iaconi died in 1956, that's 3 years before he declared war on the Mafia.

The war started in 1940s and the meeting was done only because Iaconi died in 1956.

[HairyKnuckles]

I have only heard of "Little Apalachin" referring to the 1966 LaStella Restaurant meeting. I am by no means an "expert" but I researched and read a lot of mafia stuff and I have never once heard of this Worcester meeting.

Off the top of my head, neither have I. One would think that it should have been mentioned by any of the numerous informants who gave information to the feds in the 1960s if the meeting had in fact taken place. But there´s nothing.that I can find.

Furio do you look into or research the background of articles or links you post? Could save you from looking like a jackass.

What Raven is referring to here is that you should look into what you post. The link you provided above was not a link to the snippet of the article you posted. No need to get bitchy about it. (I deleted your last post.)

What you could do is to get on Mary Ferrell and search for Frank Iaconi and try to find anything on the supposed 1959 Worcester Hotel meeting. And if you find anything, you´re welcome to post it here and I´ll be the first to admit that I was wrong, if I was wrong.

[furiofromnaples]

Nothing on mary ferrell this what I found:

http://incitytimesworcester.org/worcest ... dence-mob/

This set off a brief but interesting war between Patriarca’s Providence faction and Iaconi’s Worcester operation. The Hollywood version of a 1940s Mafia war involves gangsters with submachine guns mowing down their enemies. This war was different. Patriarca struck not at Iaconi but at Iaconi’s money. It was as if Patriarca was a corporate leader out to reassert his authority over a distant subsidiary, eager to exert control, while preserving his operating assets and seasoned personnel. Patriarca’s use of violence was extremely sophisticated and surprisingly surreptitious.

Iaconi’s money was out in the open, on the street in gambling dens. It could be hit. Patriarca had good intelligence. He knew Worcester well, having lived there in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had blood relatives in Worcester and, most likely, informants inside the Worcester Mafia. Patriarca sent his gunmen into Worcester to raid Iaconi’s gambling parlors. Instead of leaving bullet riddled bodies in the street, which would attract media attention, Patriarca resorted to robberies that went largely unnoticed by the press.

Patriarca maintained his ties with Worcester. “Patriarca frequently met with friends and business associates in Worcester over the years,” the Worcester Telegram reported when Patriarca died of natural causes in July 1984. “Patriarca also admitted to investigators he had attended the so-called ‘Little Apalachin’ conclave of East Coast mobsters at the former Bancroft Hotel on Franklin Street in Worcester in 1959.”

[Raven]

I would think if this meeting/conference really took place and was known about the FBI would have some files on it. Appalachin and what was is commonly called little appalachin (nyc restaraunt meeting) are both well documented. If it happened I do not think it was of the scale your source says.