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John J (Red)
Kelley
Red Kelley was a veteran New England
hoodlum who worked on his own and as a “contractor” for Providence Mafia
boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca, a/k/a, The Man. In this photo, he’s leaving
the federal courthouse in Boston after testifying about a 1968 Brinks
armored-truck robbery in which he was one of the prime suspects. At age
54, Red is wearing a typical late 60’s-style short-brim warm-weather lid
with a colorful band. (His grand-jury appearance was in the middle of
May.) Red was soon in the Witness Protection Program, and he eventually
testified against The Man in a Rhode Island murder case. He vanished
into anonymity and was never heard from again, except once, in 1983,
when Congress investigated how much money the feds had paid Kelley after
he joined the Program. The answer: a lot.
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