Although reputed New England mafia associate Charles (Harpo) Garabedian vigorously denies playing any role in the burial of slain mobbed-up nightclub owner Stevie DiSarro two and a half decades ago, he’s expected to testify at the trial trying to bring DiSarro’s murderers to justice. The United States Attorneys’ Office in Boston has given Garabedian, 83,
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New England mobster Luigi (Baby Shacks) Manocchio was officially bumped up to underboss of the Patriarca crime family in late 1991, according to an FBI recording played at a federal murder trial in Boston this week. The now-retired Manocchio, 90, was boss of the crime family from 1996 until he retired in 2009. A tape
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Oh, the irony. Per sources with intimate knowledge of the situation, former New England mob boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme didn’t admit to his role in the Stevie DiSarro murder during his multiple FBI debriefings because he was trying to protect his one-time gangland best friend Robert (Bobby the Cigar) DeLuca. In return, DeLuca did
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The New England mafia broke out into war in the summer of 1989, as factions representing the crime family’s Providence and Boston wings locked horns for the keys to the kingdom. Within hours of each other in June of that year, then fast-rising captain Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme survived an assassination attempt and underboss William (The Wild
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