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Mastrototaro took over from Frank Iaconi, the boss of Worcester's organized crime scene since Prohibition days, after he ran afoul of the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime. Iaconi's testimony before the committee in 1950 led to Committee Chairman Estes Kefauver have Iaconi's tax returns examined, which led to an Internal Revenue ...
Frank Iaconi (c. 1895 – July 14, 1956 [1]) was an Italian American gangster who reigned as crime boss of Worcester, Massachusetts, from the days of Prohibition through 1953. Though part of the Patriarca family's territory, Worcester was in fact a fiefdom of the Mafia 's Genovese family .
The Patriarca crime family (/ ˌ p æ t r i ˈ ɑː r k ə /, Italian pronunciation: [patriˈarka]), also known as the New England Mafia, the Boston Mafia, the Providence Mafia, the Boston–Providence Mafia, [5] or the Office, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family operating in New England.
Raymond Patriarca's Providence Police photo. Patriarca was born on March 17, 1908, in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Eleuterio Patriarca, an Italian immigrant from the village of Arce, Lazio, and Vincenza (Mary Jane) DeNubila, an Italian American.
Gennaro Joseph "Jerry" Angiulo Sr. (Italian pronunciation: [dʒenˈnaːro ˈandʒulo]; March 20, 1919 – August 29, 2009) [1] [2] was an American mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Patriarca crime family of New England under Raymond L. S. Patriarca.
In May 2008, the Worcester County District Attorney's Office announced that they had a prime suspect - 38-year-old Alex F. Scesny, a resident of Berlin who had recently been charged with the rape of a female friend in West Boylston and the cold case murder of 39-year-old prostitute Theresa K. Stone, who had been beaten and strangled to death in ...
A Texas man has admitted to kidnapping and killing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, who was found dead in a river nearly a year ago after she briefly went missing.. Don Steven McDougal "has accepted ...
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