FBI Files - The Patriarca Papers - Entry 3, Part 2

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FBI Files - The Patriarca Papers - Entry 3, Part 2

This week’s release of the FBI Files on Raymond Patriarca unveils ties to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron “Whizzer” White, Boston Mob Boss Enrico “Henry” Tameleo, and where the boss had lunch everyday.

The Patriarca Papers unveils Patriarca’s trip to Miami and then health issues for both Patriarca and his wife Helen.

The FBI steps up its pursuit of Patriarca and requests from the IRS his files.  Amazingly, the IRS refuses to turn his files over to the FBI.

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Tameleo was one of Patriarca’s longest serving members of the Providence-based crime family.

In 1967, Tameleo, Raymond L.S. Patriarca, and Jerry Anguilo were charged with the murder of bookmaker Willie Marfeo. Six men were convicted in the murder - Patriarca got 10 years.

The death sentences were later reduced to life in prison, where Tameleo died in 1985. According to reports, “By 2000, Tameleo and the other defendants had been posthumously exonerated amid

Enrico Tameleo
evidence they had been ensnared in a government frame-up and cover-up extending over thirty years.”

Patriarca Papers Entry 3 - Part 2

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