Trial of Cadillac Frank Salemme

[TJ]

so maybe he is having them tour the house to see that is a mistake that couldnt be made? or maybe rosetti's rat report was 'in a basement' somewhere? again just what i have been hearing

[Eddie mush]

Wonder if there will b any surprise witnesses.??

[Eddie mush]

http://gangsterreport.com/changing-the- ... s-killing/

[dixiemafia]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/ ... story.html

[TJ]

Read the globe article..unnamed source says it was in basement lol.weadick knows exactly who source was

[dack2001]

So what's real story here? I assume Flemmi is lying in a last ditch attempt to get out and to get back at Salemme...source lying? DeLucas throwing Salemme under the bus so they can walk? What an interesting shitshow.

[dixiemafia]

It definitely is a mess

[Eddie mush]

http://gangsterreport.com/court-filing- ... xplosives/

[Eddie mush]

http://gangsterreport.com/mob-informant ... -executed/

These seems a little far fetched 2 me . If junior wanted frank gone y wud he fork over $100 k to a outsider wen he had plenty of henchmen who would have done it out of obligation

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

http://gangsterreport.com/mob-informant ... -executed/

These seems a little far fetched 2 me . If junior wanted frank gone y wud he fork over $100 k to a outsider wen he had plenty of henchmen who would have done it out of obligation

Deniability and to minimize internecine conflict

[Eddie mush]

Trial Update

http://www.wpri.com/target-12/ri-mob-as ... 1171577140

[Eddie mush]

http://www.wpri.com/target-12/hollywood ... 1194427532

This is a crazy trial

[TJ]

ok, explains it a little better, agents, probably still working

[dixiemafia]

Why is it every Boston trial has to be fucked up? It never fails!

[dixiemafia]

Some good details coming from the trial:

Tweets and info via Tim White at @TimWhiteRI

DeLuca said Raymond "junior" Patriarca had a nickname: rubber lips.

DeLuca says he met Salemme when he went to a Lincoln, RI development Junior was working on around 1989.

DeLuca said around 1989, he went to Anthony St. Laurent’s house with Junior Patriarca, after Salemme was shot and underboss Billy Grasso was murdered in CT. Junior wanted to know if DeLuca could get him in touch with Boston mob capo Vinnie Ferrara

After Salemme was shot and Grasso was murdered, DeLuca testifies he drove to Boston with Harpo Garabedian to meet with Ferrara at the request of Junior Patriarca.

DeLuca said Junior wanted Vinnie Ferrara to come to Rhode Island, but Ferrara refused. Junior asked DeLuca what he should do. "You're the boss what are you asking me for?" DeLuca wasn't a made man at the time

Ferrara wanted Junior to come to Boston and meet him at Mass General Hospital. They did. Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent was there too, but Ferrara told him to leave, according to DeLuca.

DeLuca wasn't part of the conversation but he said Junior told him "everything went well."

Ferrara then met with mob capo Matty Guglielmetti at a Papa Gino's in RI.

DeLuca said in another meeting his brother Joe Russo and Vinny Ferrara were pretty mad at Junior and yelling at him “you’re not running this like a boss” And demanded he step down as boss.

DeLuca said Junior didn't want to be embarrassed.

DeLuca now testifying that Junior told him he was going to be a made guy.

DeLuca talking about the day he was inducted into the mob in Medford in 1989. This was famously bugged by the FBI.

In all, four guys were being made. Bobby D and three others from Boston

When Junior was put in prison after the induction ceremony, DeLuca said Nicky Bianco was elevated to boss. Bianco was "on a bracelet" at the time because he was on trial in Connecticut, per DeLuca.

After Bianco was convicted, DeLuca says Salemme was made boss in 1991

DeLuca said at the time he was extracting protection payments from strip clubs Satin Doll and theFoxy Lady as well as “some bookmakers that were paying.” He would give a cut to Salemme.

DeLuca said Salemme made him a captain but at the time "I didn't really have a crew."

DeLuca said he first met Steven DiSarro at a meeting in North Providence with Providence pornographer Kenny Guarino.

DeLuca said Guarino wanted to put "peep machines" in some spots in Boston, but Salemme said he couldn't do it.

DeLuca had a meeting with a NYC Gambino mob captain and Salemme at a Hilton in Boston in 1991. He later learned the FBI had bugged the meeting. Ferland: “How did you find out?” DeLuca: “Well, we got arrested.”

DeLuca has cooperated in several cases in the last 10 years, but I believe this is the first time he has actually taken the stand and testified in open court.

DeLuca said he would place bets using a cellphone moments after a horse "went over the wire." "They never knew, they never caught on for months."

Bobby DeLuca said Salemme told him he was going to get involved in The Channel nightclub in Boston with Steven DiSarro. "It would make money."

DeLuca said he was going to see Frank Zammiello of RI to finance The Channel. "He gave him the money." Zammiello was tight with Junior Patriarca, per DeLuca.

Bobby DeLuca said they would communicate with a "beeper." He is now being asked to define what a beeper is because, as Ferland says, "a lot of people may not be familiar" with a beeper.

In September 1992 Bobby DeLuca said he got a call from Salemme about mob enforcer Kevin Hanrahan. "He told me Kevin Hanrahan had to go. He’s looking to kill me or Louie [Manocchio]."

Hanrahan was gunned down leaving a Federal Hill restaurant in Sept. 1992. The gunman has never been caught, but DeLuca pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiracy in that case.

Related: Informant told FBI Hanrahan wanted to blowup Salemme and Manocchio's restaurant.

DeLuca says Eddie Lato and Rocco Argenti were tapped for the Hanrahan hit. "They'll take care of it."

Bobby DeLuca said it was Rocco Argenti (who is now deceased) that pulled the trigger on Hanrahan. Eddie Lato was there, he says.

In May 1993 Bobby DeLuca said Salemme paged him, they met and Salemme says Steven DiSarro was stealing from the club. "I said 'get rid of him, you don’t need him throw him out.'" He said “yeah don’t worry Frankie boy will take care of that.”

DeLuca says they decided to bury DiSarro in the backyard of a mill building owned by his buddy William Ricci. "I happened to see they were doing an excavation job in the back of the building, they were digging a hole with a backhoe."

Bobby DeLuca said Salemme then told him "Frankie Boy" strangled DiSarro. "He wasn’t just stealing money he was giving information. He was an informant."

DeLuca testified during the murder "The Nice Guy" walked in on the scene. “The Nice Guy, that is what we used to call Steve Flemmi. He was a nice gentlemen, he was very quiet.”

Bobby DeLuca said Salemme told him about Paul Weadick: "He’s the one who took Steve DiSarro to the house. When Frankie Boy strangled him he picked him up by the legs."

DeLuca said he was brought before a grand jury in 2004 and asked about the DiSarro murder. “I said I didn’t know anything about it. I lied.”

Asked why he lied, DeLuca said "I felt I was giving up my brother and putting my brother in trouble." Said he also had two young kids at the time.

In 2011, DeLuca said he was indicted and approached by the FBI. “They asked me if I would help them with the case and I agreed to it.” This case took down several mob figures including former mob boss Louie Manocchio

DeLuca says he was being held at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility, but is now at a federal facility. Agrees it is "preferable" to the one in Plymouth

Under cross examination DeLuca said “I didn’t know Billy Ricci was cooperating with the feds until they started digging.”

Asked when he learned about the digging behind Ricci's property for DiSarro's body, DeLuca says "I didn’t think I might have a problem, I knew I would have a problem."

Weinstein asking if then-mob boss Luigi Manocchio cut DeLuca out of the money he was collecting from RI strip clubs. DeLuca said that did happen, but he was in prison at the time and was focused on his case.

Weinstein rattling off the names of the nine mobsters and associates who pled guilty in wake of the 2011 case DeLuca cooperated in: Iafrate Cardillo Manocchio Bonafiglia Lato Scivola Jenkins Folcarelli DiNunzio

Going over Bobby DeLuca's plea agreement in 2011, Weinstein points out he faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison. DeLuca says he didn't realize it at the time "But now that I see it, yeah." (DeLuca served one day in jail)

Remember as we sit here and listen to Bobby DeLuca's testimony, it was Frank Salemme who he says made him a capo in the New England crime family. They were very tight at one time.

DeLuca says he moved to Florida because he didn't think it was safe for him or his family in RI. Says he refused an invitation to be in the witness protection program (now called witness security program).

Weinstein asks if DeLuca received $37,823.62 from the government for "living expenses" in 2011. DeLuca says he can't remember.

Weinstein asks if Bobby DeLuca told the government Salemme inducted his brother Joe into the crime family "as a favor" to Bobby. DeLuca: "That's the government's interpretation."

Moving onto the 1992 murder of Kevin Hanrahan. Weinstein: "You watched the guy with the gun pointed it at the back of Hanrahan's head." DeLuca: "Yes." Weinstein: "You watched when he pulled the trigger." DeLuca: "I did."

DeLuca faces up to 10 years in prison for his role in the Hanrahan murder. Weinstein is pointing out the agreement with the government, his sentence in RI would be concurrent with whatever he gets in Massachusetts for lying in the DiSarro case.

Bobby DeLuca said he is also going to be a witness in the case against "Poochie" Angel. That would be the third case he is being used in by prosecutors that are active right now, if you're counting.