Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, DOB 8-18-33. Prolific hitman of the 1960s, along with Stevie Flemmi. Imprisoned from 1972 to 1989, then was released. Indicted again in 1995 along with Whitey, served another sentence and then was released in 2003. Re-arrested last November on charges of lying to federal agents about the murder of nightclub owner Steve DiSarro in 1993.

Cadillac Frank, circa 1994 when he was boss of the Patriarca Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (despite the fact that his mother was Irish). In January 1995 he was indicted on racketeering charges along with Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi, his old partner in many gangland hits in the 1960’s. Salemme fled, but was arrested in West Palm Beach FL in the summer of 1995. He did several years in jail stoically awaiting trial until he finally flipped, when he realized his old pal Stevie had been ratting him out to the FBI for 30 years.
Salemme served some time, and was released, but was rearrested again in November 2004, and is currently awaiting his nextg, and probably final, trial. The main witness against him: Stevie Flemmi. Here are some more photos of Frank and his family.

Frank Salemme, 1965, age 32, during the Irish Gang War. He owned garages in Roxbury and killed Charlestown gangsters, as he told a Congressional committee in 2003. “The Hugheses, the McLaughlins, they were all eliminated, and I was a participant in just about all of them, planned them and did them.” (To see some of Salemme’s handiwork, check out the pages on Steve Hughes and Connie Hughes.)
 

Frank Salemme, 1972, after his arrest in New York City by FBI agent/Bulger gangster Zip Connolly. Salemme had been on the run from an attempted-murder indictment for three years, and his capture was a convenient way for crooked FBI agent H. Paul Rico to get Zip back to Boston, where he could funnel information to the Mob. Salemme did 17 years; Stevie Flemmi, the FBI rat who was his codefendant, wasn’t even tried for the crime.

At age 71, you might think that Francis P. Salemme, former boss of the Patriarca Crime Family, would have been smart enough not to try to hide anything from the feds as he was cutting his deal. But no. According to sources, he was ratted out yet again, by... STEVIE THE RIFLEMAN
 

Frank’s younger brother, John “Jack” Salemme. According to FBI reports, when Salemme was in state prison from 1972 until 1989, Flemmi provided money to Frank, through Jack, every Friday night. Jack Salemme was sitting in the booth of the Chinatown restaurant in 1981 when Brian Halloran shot and killed George Pappas. Whitey then told his crooked FBI agents that the Mafia would kill Halloran so that Jackie wouldn’t have to testify. In reality, it was Whitey who was planning to whack Halloran, and did, in May 1982.
 

Frank Salemme Jr. Indicted along with his father, died in 1995 before trial.
 

Frank Salemme, photo courtesy Boston Herald. He had nothing to do with the 1965 Teddy Deegan murder, but last year he told Congressional investigators about the background of the hit, and the irony that Jimmy the Bear took a contract to murder Deegan for burglaries that Deegan had committed with the Bear’s own brother, Stevie.
 

Installed as boss after the disastrous reign of  Rubber Lips Patriarca. His reign was almost as big a fiasco.
 

"Cadillac Frank" on his way into Federal Court in Fort Lauderdale, 1995.

  Frank was accused of two counts of racketeering, five counts of crossing state lines for criminal activity, seven counts of extortion, one count of conspiracy, one count of loansharking. 

 Frank was given 11 years.

FBI 302 on Salemme Unsealed

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