He was made around 87 or 88 right after he came out from his 15 year stint in the can for bombing joe barboza's lawyers car. The lawyer ended being a federal judge or a sumpreme court judge. salemme was great friends with flemmi since kids, both are from roxbury and did major work specifically during the 60's mob war. he was in tight with ray jr after he came out in the 80's thats how he was made, one of many reasons joe russo wanted ray jr out of being skipper b/c he made a guy half irish and ray jr wouldnt let the connecticut guys go see joe russo, who was consigliere at the time. But salemme became skipper in 90 or 91. He was almost clipped in 89 at IHOP same day Grasso was clipped. That was because a takeover that was in place by Russo, his brother carrozza, ferrara, bianco, biago, all capo's . He took over in 90 or 91 when 40 something members of the family was indicted. It was two seperate indictments. The war was continued between salemme loyalists like his brother jackie, mike prochilio, darren bufalino, rossetti and deluca all of whom later on became mad guys. The other side was a bunch of renegades under carrozza like gigi, patti, romano and ralph nazzaro scarpa who is the only real connected guy, pure killer gangster out of all the renegades b/c they were dirty bastards but scarpa was and still is the real deal. Rumor is he turned down the button twice. Then 95 came real fast and salemme was indicted. the renegads was indicted in 97 or 98. Salemme found out flemmi been an informant since the 70's even giving salemme up when he was on the lam for the bombing. Salemme flipped in 2001 when word hit the streets I never seen gossip and ser versas until rossetti news came out. But Salemme came out and is out and about freely living a stoolie's life