Raymond Patriarca

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Raymond Patriarca

Raymond Loreda Salvatore Patriarca, Sr. (March 18, 1908 , † July 11, 1984 ) was an Italian-American mobster from Providence , Rhode Island and long-time head of the Patriarca mafia family. He was considered one of the most influential bosses of the La Cosa Nostra and often mediated in internal mafia disputes. His area of ​​influence extended to New England .

Early life

He was born the son of Italian immigrants and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts . Even as a teenager, Patriarca was involved in kidnapping, armed robbery, assault, car theft and burglary. The Providence Board of Public Safety described him as Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1930s . When Patriarca was sentenced to several years in prison for robbery, he used his political connections. Executive Councilor Daniel Coakley - an employee of Governor Charles F. Hurley - enforced a pardon and Patriarca was released after a few months. These connections increased Patriarca's reputation in the underworld.

Rise to power

In the 1940s, Patrairca's rise to power began. In 1950 he inherited Philip Bruccola, who fled the country before the tax authorities, and took over his criminal business. Patriarca's rule is said to have been brutal and uncontrolled. Once he is said to have ordered a father to murder his own son. When he refused, he was expelled from the family. Underboss Henry Tameleo later persuaded Patriarca to withdraw the order.

He is also said to have threatened his brother with death when he was wiretapped by the FBI . During an internal Irish conflict between the Charlestown Mob ( Charlestown (Boston) ) and the Winter Hill Gang (Boston), Patriacra is believed to have given numerous murder orders against members of the McLaughlin Gang after Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin interfered in Patriarca's Boston stores . Patriarca was also hostile to other Irish gangs such as the Gustin Gang and the Mullen Gang .

In 1954 he reformed his organization and moved to Providence, Rhode Island . As a front company, he ran the National Cigarette Service Company and Coin-O-Matic Distributors on Atwells Avenue in the Federal Hill District of Providence.

The family just called the company "The Office". Patriarca made sure that no other family worked in New England. Informant Vincent Teresa later testified that Patriarca banned drug trafficking . He secured his power by securing cooperation with the powerful New York families ; relations with the Genovese and Colombo families were particularly strong. Patriarca decided with the Genovese family that there was a dividing line on the Connecticut River and that this boundary would be mutually respected. The New England family worked in Worcester, Massachusetts, Boston and the state of Maine , while the Genovese would work in Hartford , Springfield, Massachusetts and Albany .

Enrico Tameleo , underboss of the Patriarca family, was even a member of the Bonanno family . Patriarca was also represented on the Mafia commission and was involved in two casinos in Las Vegas . Another underboss of Patriarca was Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo, who controlled all illegal gambling in Boston.

There were also collaborations with the DeCavalcante family from New Jersey (model for the fictional Sopranos family ) and the Philadelphia family.

Apalachin Meeting

In 1957 Patriarca took part in the legendary Apalachin meeting . He was briefly arrested and became the focus of the police; especially when Robert F. Kennedy became Attorney General in 1961 and the investigations into organized crime were intensified. In 1966, Joe Barboza (killer of the Patriarca family) was arrested, felt abandoned by Patriarca and became the Pentito . He claimed to have murdered 26 people himself.

Imprisonment

In March 1970, Patriarca and several of his family members were charged with murder and conspiracy to murder. The main witness was the robber and killer John "Red" Kelley , who was then accepted into the witness protection program. Kelley incriminated Patriarca for the murder of Rudolph "Rudy" Marfeo and Anthony Melei. Kelley had been hired by Patriarca to assassinate Marfeo.

Patriarca was sentenced to ten years in prison for murder.

Death and succession

On July 11, 1984, he (76 years old) was admitted to Rhode Island Hospital , where he died of heart failure that same day. Patriarca was buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence, Rhode Island . Patriarca was survived by his son Raymond Patriarca, Jr.

additional

The conflict between the Irish mafia in Boston and the Italian-American mafia from Providence is also the subject of the films Departed - Unter Feinden by Martin Scorsese and Black Mass .

literature

  • English, TJ Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster . New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-059002-5 .
  • Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America . New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X .
  • Kelly, Robert J. Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0-313-30653-2 .
  • Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia . New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3 .
  • Lehr, Dick, and Gerard O'Neill. Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the Boston FBI and a Devil's Deal . New York: Public Affairs, 2000. ISBN 1-891620-40-1 .
  • Matera, Dary. FBI's Ten Most Wanted . New York: HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN 0-06-052435-9 .
  • The Underboss by Gerardo O'Neil & Dick Lehr ISBN 0-312-91731-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim White: The History of New England's Mob Bosses: A Rhode Island legacy of Mafia Dons , Wpri.com . November 24, 2008. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 10, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wpri.com 
  2. ^ Morelli, p. 74
  3. ↑ Morelli, Rocco. Forgetta 'Bout It: From Mafia to Ministry. Orlando, FL: Bridge-Logos Foundation, 2007. ISBN 0-88270-323-4 . P. 74
  4. ↑ Morelli, Rocco. Forgetta 'Bout It: From Mafia to Ministry. Orlando, FL: Bridge-Logos Foundation, 2007. ISBN 0-88270-323-4 . P. 74
  5. ↑ Howie Carr: John (Red Kelley) . BostonHitman.com. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  6. ^ John Partington: The Mob and Me: Wiseguys and the Witness Protection Program . Gallery Books, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-6769-4 , pp. 123-4.
personal data
SURNAME Patriarca, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patriarca, Raymond Loreda Salvatore senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gangster
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1908
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1984