Cosa Nostra News

A Federal appeals court in Boston yesterday (Friday, September 24) upheld the life sentences of New England Cosa Nostra boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme and mob associate Paul Weadick for the 1993 murder of Steven DiSarro, a Federal witness whose remains were found in an unmarked grave in Rhode Island in 2016. 1993 surveillance photo, from left: Salemme, Flemmi with back to camera, Frank Jr.  According to Federal prosecutors, Salemme, 88, held a secret interest in a South Boston nightclub  called The Channel, which DiSarro purchased. Salemme had DiSarro killed after he began to believe that the nightclub owner was talking to the FBI and was about to implicate him in criminal activity. The Fed's star witness at Salemme and Weadick's 2018 trial was Stephen (The Rifleman) Flemmi, the longtime partner of Winter Hill boss Whitey Bulger . Flemmi, 84, who is serving a life sentence for 10 murders, testified that he had walked in on the Salemmes, father and son, and Weadick...

Francis Salemme, the former New England Mafia boss accused of killing nightclub owner Steven DiSarro in 1993, was found guilty of the murder by a federal jury at the Moakley Courthouse in South Boston. 1993 surveillance photo: Salemme, left, Flemmi, back to camera, Salemme Jr. right at The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. On June 22, the jury reached its verdict after four days of deliberations. Salemme, 84, was charged in the killing of DiSarro, who owned the Channel and was a federal witness. DiSarro's body was found in 2016. Salamme associate Paul Weadick, 63, also was found guilty of the murder. Sentencing is set for September 13. Murdering a federal witness carries a life sentence. Salemme had been arrested in Connecticut in 2016, after living in Atlanta as "Richard Parker" in the federal witness protection program before fleeing. "Today, one of the last New England mafia bosses, Frank 'Cadillac' Salemme along with an accomplice, Paul Wea...

Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme’s murder trial starts this month. Cadillac Frank: What a long, strange trip..... Salemme, 84, was arrested in 2016 while in the U.S. Federal Witness Protection Program. He and Paul Weadick, 62, of Burlington go on trial April 24 in U.S. District Court. The centerpiece of the case is the May 10, 1993, hit on Steven DiSarro, 43, who then owned the popular waterfront rock club The Channel. "Extremely distraught” and dubious about a sit-down he’d been summoned to with the then-boss of the New England Mafia, DiSarro left a note at his Westwood home for one of his sons. In the note, he wrote that his sons wouldn't see him again anytime soon. DiSarro then stepped into a car waiting for him and disappeared, prosecutors will allege during Salemme’s murder trial. Stephen (The Rifleman) Flemmi and Robert P. DeLuca, are slated to testify, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Wyshak Jr. Prosecutors will paint a chilling, det...

"Cadillac Frank" during 1995 arrest. UPDATED Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, a former top-level member of the New England Mafia  who flipped to testify against notorious Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger , was yanked out of Witness Protection and arrested today, having been charged with murdering a witness. Salemme is to appear today at 3 p.m. before a Boston-based U.S. District Court, U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s office said. Salemme is charged with the May 10, 1993 murder of South Boston nightclub manager Steven A. DiSarro. Salemme and his son, who has since died, were long suspected of being behind the murder .

Enrico Ponzo was quite jovial in an interview, though he's been a difficult prisoner, committing various violent acts. A longtime Boston Mafia associate who was a fugitive from Massachusetts justice for 16 years was sentenced to 46 months on multiple charges in Boise recently, news reports revealed . That's in addition to the 28-year-sentence the mobster has already received. Enrico Ponzo , 47, after participating in a failed hit that was part of a New England Mafia war , fled Massachusetts in 1994, with law enforcement in hot pursuit. Following years on the run, Ponzo settled in a small Idaho town -- and for the next 10 years, the Boston wiseguy successfully posed as a rancher named Jay Shaw.

Boston mobster Enrico Ponzo , 47, after participating in a failed hit that was part of the New England Mafia war, fled Massachusetts in 1994, with law enforcement in hot pursuit. Following years on the run, Ponzo finally settled in a small Idaho town under an alias. And for the next 10 years, the Boston wiseguy successfully played the part of a rancher named Jay Shaw. A mobster named Jay Shaw? Or a rancher named Enrico Ponzo? In 2011, he was recaptured -- and two years later, following a trial in which he faced attempted murder and other alleged charges, Ponzo was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison. Nevertheless, next month, on Feb. 2, he'll return to his former adopted home state of Idaho to a courtroom to face 16 felonious counts involving unlawful possession of a firearm, aggravated identity theft, and possession of documents for intended fraudulent use.

Ponzo lammed it and began life as a new man: an honest citizen, to boot. The  Houston Chronicle  reports that Enrico Ponzo, the mobster who spent more than 16 years on the run (including more than a decade as a cattle rancher, then later as a web designer in Idaho under an alias), is scheduled to be sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston. Prosecutors have recommended a 40-year-sentence, saying the 45-year-old Ponzo is a "vicious, violent, cold-blooded criminal." Ponzo, representing himself, requested 15 years or less, saying he lived a "hardworking, selfless life in Idaho ... as a stay-at-home dad" and community volunteer. He was convicted in November of several crimes, including the attempted murder in 1989 of Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme."