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((Short description|American criminal (1933–2022)))
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((Infobox criminal
| name              = Frank Salemme
| image             = Salemme.jpg
| caption           = FBI mugshot of Frank Salemme
| birth_name        = Francis Patrick Salemme
| birth_date        = August 18, 1933
| birth_place       = [[Weymouth, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date        = ((Death date and age|2022|12|13|1933|08|18))
| death_place       = [[Springfield, Missouri]], U.S.
| alias             = Cadillac Frank<br />Julian Daniel Selig
| allegiance        = [[Patriarca crime family]]
| occupation        = [[Crime boss]]
| conviction        = Racketeering (1995)<br>[[Perjury]]<br>[[Making false statements]]<br>Murder (2018)
| conviction_penalty = 11 years imprisonment (1995)<br>5 years imprisonment (2008)<br>[[Life imprisonment]] (2018)
))

'''Francis Patrick Salemme''' (August 18, 1933 – December 13, 2022), sometimes spelled '''Salemmi''', also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "Julian Daniel Selig", was an American mobster from [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] who became a [[hitman]] and eventually the boss of the [[Patriarca crime family]] of [[New England]] before turning government witness.

==Early years==
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[[File:Francis Salemme - FBI Wanted Poster.jpg|thumb|FBI Wanted Poster of Francis Patrick Salemme issued on January 27, 1970]]
Salemme became acquainted with Patriarca family mobster Anthony Morelli in 1957 while in prison. He started working with Morelli in criminal activities after getting out of prison, and he quickly gained stature in the Patriarca family as an associate – although he could not become a [[made man]] or full member. Patriarca boss [[Raymond L. S. Patriarca|Raymond Patriarca]] respected Salemme for his obedience to the family and his skill as a money maker, but he only allowed full-blooded Italians to become made men, and Salemme was part Irish from his mother Anne Salemme (née Haverty).

During the early 1960s, Salemme participated in the [[Irish Mob|Irish gang wars]] in Boston. Testifying before Congress in 2003, Salemme admitted to murdering numerous rival gang members in [[Charlestown, Massachusetts]]:

<blockquote>The Hugheses, the McLaughlins, they were all eliminated, and I was a participant in just about all of them, planned them and did them.</blockquote>

In 1968, Salemme arranged the car bombing of John Fitzgerald, a lawyer representing Patriarca mob informant [[Joseph Barboza]]. The point of the attack was to scare Barboza into not testifying against Raymond Patriarca and other mob leaders. Fitzgerald survived the attack, but lost his left leg. It was later established in testimony by several witnesses and confirmed by the U.S. House of Representatives Organized Crime unit investigation that Salemme was involved in the bombing, but did not carry it out. After the unsuccessful attack, Salemme went into hiding. He remained a fugitive until 1972, when he was captured by FBI agent [[John Connolly (FBI)|John Connolly]] in [[Manhattan]]. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for 16 years.

During the trial of retired FBI agent John Connolly, Salemme denied murdering a nightclub owner named Steven DiSarro in 1994. Two years later, however, Steve Flemmi was immunized and told U.S. attorneys Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly that he saw Salemme participate in the murder. Salemme went back to jail when he was finished testifying against Connolly, and there he bragged to a fellow inmate that the prosecutors had coached him to commit perjury and that he had committed so much perjury that he should be sentenced to jail for a hundred years. The inmate was an informant who wrote down his confession and it is memorialized in law enforcement reports. Instead of charging Salemme with the murder of DiSarro, Wyshak and Kelly merely charged him with perjury and obstruction. A secret [[plea bargain]] was struck and he was sentenced to just over time already served.

==Mob rivalry==
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In 1986, family boss [[Gennaro Angiulo|Jerry Angiulo]] had been sent to prison on racketeering charges, leaving a power vacuum in the Patriarca family. In previous years, Salemme had forged strong ties to [[Whitey Bulger]] and the mostly [[Irish American|Irish]] [[Winter Hill Gang]]. Salemme was especially close to Bulger's lieutenant [[Steve Flemmi]] (who by this time had been a federal informant for ten years). In early 1989, soon after his release from prison, Salemme attempted to gain control of the Patriarca family. Patriarca [[caporegime]] Joseph Russo opposed Salemme's move, fearing the loss of his lucrative rackets. In June 1989, [[Angelo Mercurio|Angelo "Sonny" Mercurio]], a Russo loyalist, lured Salemme to a meeting outside a [[Saugus, Massachusetts]] [[IHOP]]. Gunmen then ambushed Salemme, wounding him in the chest and leg. The feud between Salemme and Russo continued until [[John Gotti]], the boss of the New York [[Gambino crime family]], brokered a peace agreement. Under the agreement, Salemme loyalist [[Nicholas Bianco]] became boss and Russo became [[consigliere]]. By 1991 Salemme, with the support of Bulger and Flemmi, had become the de facto boss of the Patriarca family.

==Sting operation==
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During the 1990s, at the urging of Frank Salemme, Jr., Frank, Sr. started extorting money from a film crew that wanted to avoid paying high salaries to union workers while filming in Boston and [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. As it turned out, the film crew was actually a [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) front. These events were highly fictionalized in the 2004 film ''[[The Last Shot]]''. At the end of the operation, Frank, Sr. was arrested in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]] and charged with racketeering, crossing state lines for criminal activity, [[extortion]], conspiracy, and [[Loan shark|loansharking]].

==Government informant==
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In January 1995, Salemme was indicted on [[racketeering]] charges along with Bulger and Flemmi. Salemme was convicted and sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment. In 1999, while serving his racketeering sentence, Salemme learned that both Bulger and Flemmi had been FBI informants for many years, and that both men had provided information on Salemme to their FBI handlers. Salemme now agreed to provide the government with information on the FBI handling of Bulger and Flemmi. Salemme's testimony would help convict Connolly, the same man who had arrested him 20 years earlier in New York, on racketeering charges.

In 2003, in return for assisting the government, Salemme was released early from prison and brought into the federal [[witness protection]] program. Shortly after his release, Salemme appeared before a Congressional committee to testify on the Connolly case. In 2008, he was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements for lying to federal authorities investigating the disappearance of 43-year-old Steven A. DiSarro, who went missing in 1993.<ref>((Cite web |last=Herald |first=Laurel J. Sweet ((!)) Boston |date=2008-07-16 |title=Salemme takes five years for obstruction |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/07/16/salemme-takes-five-years-for-obstruction/ |access-date=2023-12-14 |website=Boston Herald |language=en-US))</ref>

==2018 murder conviction==
On June 22, 2018, Salemme was convicted of the murder of Steven A. DiSarro. DiSarro's remains were unearthed from behind a mill-turned-apartments in [[Wanskuck, Providence, Rhode Island]], on March 31, 2016.<ref>((cite web |title=Providence remains solve 23-year-old mystery |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/09/providence-remains-nightclub-manager-disarro/KyQloATTvksy66jz8xl1GM/story.html |website=The Boston Globe |access-date=29 September 2018))</ref> Patriarca mob associate William Ricci, who owned the apartment complex, faced gun and drug charges after authorities found over 1,400 marijuana plants and a stolen handgun at the property around August 2015; three weeks after a plea deal was worked out, the remains were recovered at the property.<ref>((cite web |title=Owner of mill where mob-linked body was buried gets probation on pot, gun charges |url=http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170721/owner-of-mill-where-mob-linked-body-was-buried-gets-probation-on-pot-gun-charges |website=The Providence Journal |author=Tom Mooney |access-date=29 September 2018))</ref><ref>((cite web |title=The Latest: Prosecutor: Trial ends 'long and dark chapter' |date=22 June 2018 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/22/latest-prosecutor-trial-ends-long-and-dark-chapter.html |publisher=Fox News |access-date=23 June 2018))</ref> Judge [[Allison D. Burroughs]] sentenced Salemme and former [[Patriarca crime family]] associate and accomplice, Paul Weadick, to life in prison on September 13, 2018.<ref>((cite web |title=Former Mafia boss 'Cadillac Frank' sentenced to life in prison |url=https://nypost.com/2018/09/14/former-mafia-boss-cadillac-frank-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/ |website=New York Post |date=14 September 2018 |access-date=18 September 2018))</ref> According to former [[Winter Hill Gang]] member and [[Whitey Bulger]] associate, [[Stephen Flemmi]], Salemme stood by and watched as his son strangled DiSarro while Weadick held his legs.<ref>((cite news |title=Ex-Mafia boss 'Cadillac Frank' sentenced to life in prison |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sentencing-set-for-ex-mafia-boss-cadillac-frank-in-killing/2018/09/13/e1f0193a-b751-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913165643/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sentencing-set-for-ex-mafia-boss-cadillac-frank-in-killing/2018/09/13/e1f0193a-b751-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 September 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher=Alanna Durkin Richer |access-date=18 September 2018))</ref> According to authorities, Salemme believed DiSarro was informing on him after he was contacted by authorities in the investigation of Salemme's illegal activity within [[The Channel (nightclub)|The Channel]] nightclub. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Wyshak said that Salemme admitted to murdering eight people during the 1960s, and was suspected of involvement in six additional murders in the early 1990s.<ref>((cite web |title=Former Mafia don Frank Salemme sentenced to life in prison for 1993 slaying |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/09/13/former-mafia-don-frank-salemme-faces-life-sentence-for-slaying-club-owner/zxV7WXt9GHM4QT4g3gNmlK/story.html |website=The Boston Globe |publisher=Shelley Murphy |access-date=18 September 2018))</ref>

Salemme was later held at the [[United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners]].<ref name="nypo_This">((Cite web| title = This man may have waited 38 years for his revenge on Whitey Bulger| author = Lia Eustachewich| work = New York Post| date = 2018-11-01| access-date = 2 November 2018| url = https://nypost.com/2018/11/01/this-man-may-have-waited-38-years-for-his-revenge-on-whitey-bulger/))</ref>

==Personal life and death==
Salemme's namesake son, Francis "Frankie Boy" Salemme Jr, died of AIDS-related leukemia in 1995.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://gangsterreport.com/boston-mafia-beef-with-frankie-boy-salemme-jr-led-to-jimmy-limoli-murder-in-85/|title = Boston Mafia Beef with Frankie Boy Salemme, Jr. Led to 1985 Jimmy Limoli Murder|date = 18 October 2020))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/08/18/Report-NE-mob-chiefs-son-has-cancer/6880777182400/|title=Report: N.E. Mob chief's son has cancer))</ref>

On December 13, 2022, Frank Salemme died at [[United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners|MCFP Springfield]], at the age of 89.<ref name="Frank Salemme died 2022">((cite news |last1=White |first1=Tim |title=Former New England mob boss 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme dead at 89 |url=https://www.wpri.com/target-12/former-new-england-mob-boss-cadillac-frank-salemme-dead-at-89/ |access-date=18 December 2022 |agency=News Paper |publisher=WPRI |date=18 December 2022))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey/characters/salemme.htm Boston Globe profile of Francis Salemme]
*[http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/12/man_who_helped_bug_the_mafia_dead_at_70/ Boston.com Local News Man who helped bug the mafia dead at 70]
*[http://americanmafia.com/Allan_May_9-18-00.html  Americanmafia.com: Mob War in Beantown II] by Allan May
*[http://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2008/07/cadillac-frank-salemme-gets-five-years.html The Chicago Syndicate: "Cadillac Frank" Salemme Gets Five Years in Prison]

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