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Gerard Thomas Ouimette (March 6, 1940 – April 19, 2015), commonly known as The Frenchman, was an American mobster and author from Providence, Rhode Island who was a prominent associate of the Patriarca crime family.
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The Bonded Vault heist was the biggest theft in Rhode Island history and the largest in the Northeast at the time, and The Providence Journal ranks it as one of the biggest in U.S. history. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 1 ] Tim White ( The Last Good Heist , 2016) claims that the heist marked the decline of power among organized crime in the area, due to the ...
In 2011, he was arrested for his involvement in "shaking down" Rhode Island strip clubs. In 2015 he was released from prison. Manocchio died in Bristol, Rhode Island, on December 8, 2024, at the age of 97. [136] Edward C. "Eddie" Lato Jr. — also known as "Little Eddie"; underboss of the family from 2020 to 2024. [68]
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Gerald "Gerry" Tillinghast, a Vietnam veteran turned mob enforcer for Patriarca. Tillinghast helped to get Buddy Cianci elected and, despite Cianci running on an anti-corruption platform, he was given a high-profile government job in exchange. He was acquitted in the Bonded Vault heist trial, but convicted on a later murder charge.
Pardon Tillinghast (1625–1718) was an early settler of Providence, Rhode Island, a public official there, and a pastor of the Baptist Church of Providence. A cooper by profession, he immigrated to New England about 1645, and became a successful merchant. Later in life he became a clergyman, serving without compensation for nearly four decades ...
It may also refer to a prominent Rhode Island political family, whose members include: Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791–1844), United States political figure from Rhode Island; Charles Foster Tillinghast (1797–1864), American lawyer, founder of the Tillinghast Licht law firm, and grandfather of Charles Foster Tillinghast Sr.