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Thomas DePrisco
| DOB 10-12-42. Member of Joe Barboza’s crew, in November 1966 he and Tash Bratsos were raising money for their boss’ bail (he’d been arrested on gun charges). Their final stop of the evening was the Nite Lite, a Mafia hangout on Commercial Street. Words were exchanged, and soon the Mafia men had killed both DePrisco and Bratsos. After relieving them of their bail cash (estimates range from $11,000 to $60,000-plus) they threw their bodies in Bratsos’ car and dumped it in Southie, hoping to throw blame onto the Irish. No one was fooled. A guy named Joe Lanzi tipped the cops; he was later murdered by Carmen Gagliardi and several other LCN associates. Soon after the murders, Barboza was visited by FBI agents H. Paul Rico and Dennis Condon, and he flipped, becoming the first member of the Witness Protection Program. |
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