Cheat Sheet 13: Patriarca’s Home’s Property Tax is $421 and Bugging the Coin-O-Matic

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Cheat Sheet 13: Patriarca’s Home’s Property Tax is $421 and Bugging the Coin-O-Matic

 

Each week accompanying the segments of the FBI files on Raymond Patriarca and expert analysis on the documents released, GoLocal provides a “cheat sheet” of some of the key elements from the documents.

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Make no mistake about it, the files are layered with information about a time where the scope and reach of the Patriarca crime family permeated nearly every aspect of life in New England.

 

Lincoln Downs - Photo: Boston Public Library
Page 9 Spying on the Race Track

Raymond Patriarca is linked to the installation on an observation post outside Lincoln Down to relaying racing results quickly to bookmakers. 

 

Page 30 '59 T Bird

According to FBI documents, Patriarca bought a 1959 Black T Bird from Duddie Motor Sales in Worcester.

 

Page 34 Lancaster Street House 

In a August of 1961 the FBI outlined the value of Raymond Patriarca’s deceased mother’s estate. According to the FBI, the infamous house on a quiet street in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Mount Hope had a value of $15,000 at the time.

Today, Zillow, the online real estate website estimates the value of the house at just over $360,000.

Its assessed value was $12,500 and the annual property tax was $421.16.

 

Page 61 Loan Sharking

 

FBI documents outline the loan sharking game be implemented by members of the Patriarca crime family.

 

Coin-O-Matic
Page 70 to 72 Bugging Coin-O-Matic

J. Edgar Hoover responds to communications from the Boston FBI office regarding the RFMT survey about the placement of listening devices.

 

Page 88 Hair Cut

The FBI tracked his every move - guess where he got his hair cut?  Pitocco’s Barber Shop 172 Atwells Avenue - just next to the  Coin-O-Matic.

 

Page 97-98, The FBI Analyze Patriarca’s Ad in the Providence Journal

The FBI review the ad that Patriarca took out in the Providence Journal criticizing the newspaper. (see below)


FBI Files - The Patriarca Papers - Entry 13

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