Former "Patriarca Family" boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme died this past Tuesday while serving a life sentence in federal prison...He was 89 years old.

John Gotti brokered a peace agreement the feud could have been worse, Salemme loyalist Nicholas Bianco became boss.

How someone 1/2 Irish could become the top dog in the Italian LCN, is baffling to me.
Only because he comes from the true blood era.
I understand that NOW, only the father has to be Italian.

In American mafia it's common they marry non italian girls.
Capone married Mae Coughlin, a very Irish girl, in 1918.

Yes Hollander, I do believe you're correct in that. (I can't swear to it, but I believe that I read something similar somewhere)...I don't know if its true, but I do remember something to that effect.

In general, it's a different world today, a more blended world. The same holds true (to an extent) in Cosa Nostra. Thats why you see that. So many intermarriages. Years ago that would have never happened.

Never lie to the feds – Profile of Boston Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/b...file-of-boston-mafia-boss-francis-cadill

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Cadillac Frank Salemme Cashes In Chips From Prison,
Former Boston Mob Boss Dead, But Blood-Stained Legacy Lives On

https://gangsterreport.com/cadillac...d-but-blood-stained-legacy-will-live-on/

Whatever happened to Timmy 'The Bat' Mello after he got out of prison? Is he still active?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Mello

Cadillac Frank’s Boston Bloodbath: The Patriarca Crime Family’s New England
Mafia Hit List (1991-1997)

https://gangsterreport.com/cadillac...ys-new-england-mafia-hit-list-1991-1997/

Good list

Talk about a man’s man. But I don’t believe he’s active anymore. He may still be in the seafood business? Not sure. I’ve seen him many times with his family at restaurants in providence.

I knew Mello from a Portuguese girl I dated in the early to mid 90's, he was uncomfortable to be around, she was a dancer at the Foxy Lady and lived in Dartmouth, Ma.

There's no way he went straight and I think they took all his boats, he had no other skills, I remember, someone dubbed him the Cod-Father back then.

I never saw him with Salemme but this stripper did on numerous occasions. I was only in Frank's presence twice both times at the channel in South Boston when it turned strip club, maybe around 90/91.

I believe that he and his henchman (Bruno or something?) were responsible for the elimination of the two guys who previously ran Fall River (Savitch was one). Probably on Salemme's orders.