In the first trial Barboza testified at Angiulo was found not guilty after a jury deliberated for less than two hours. None of the jurors had found Barboza believable. The second trial, however, had a different outcome. Patriarca was found guilty of conspiracy to kill Willie Marfeo who was murdered by four shotgun blasts in a telephone booth in a Federal Hill restaurant. The FBI kept Barboza on the move to prevent the mob from finding him. One of the hiding places was an officer�s quarters located in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
While the trials were going on, the mob tried to get at Barboza by planting a bomb in the car of his attorney, John Fitzgerald. The blast resulted in Fitzgerald losing his right leg below the knee.
In May 1968, the Deegan trial began. After 50 days of testimony and deliberations, the jury returned a guilty verdict. Found guilty and sentenced to death were Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco, Henry Tameleo and Ronald Cassesso. Sentenced to life were Joseph Salvati and Wilfred Roy French.
Barboza had done an impressive job. Of the three trials at which he testified two ended in guilty verdicts resulting in four gang members on death row, two in prison for life, and Patriarca on his way to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. For his testimony, Barboza was given a one-year prison term, including time served. He was paroled in March 1969 and told to leave Massachusetts forever. In 1971 he pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge in California and was sentenced to five years at Folsom Prison. Less than three months after his release he was murdered in San Francisco by Joseph �J. R.� Russo on February 11, 1976.
Fast forward to the late 1990s. The Boston FBI office is in shambles due to the revelations that the two leaders of the Winter Hill Gang, James �Whitey� Bulger and Stephen �the Rifleman� Flemmi, have been in cahoots with rogue FBI Agent John Connolly. The two mobsters, who will be indicted for a score of murders, acted as �Top Echelon� informants feeding information to the FBI about the gang�s enemies � the New England crime family, in general, and Genarro Angiulo, in particular � to their �handler� Connolly. In exchange, criminals who tried to cut a deal with the government by forwarding damaging information about the Winter Hill duo were being gunned down by gang members.
In addition to Connolly, there were alleged questionable acts carried out by agents H. Paul Rico and Dennis Condon. Winter Hill hitman John Martorano became a government witness in 1999. In his plea agreement he told a DEA agent that Barboza had admitted to framing the men convicted of killing Teddy Deegan because the Mafia �screwed me and now I�m going to screw as many of them as possible.� Martorano also confessed that Vincent J. �Jimmie the Bear� Flemmi, the brother of Stephen, had admitted murdering Deegan. Vincent Flemmi and his brother were both acting as informants to the FBI. Instead of giving up �Jimmie the Bear� the FBI let five innocent men (French was part of the actual crime) go to prison for a crime they didn�t commit.
Louis Greco, Henry Tameleo and Ronald Cassesso all died in prison. Joseph Salvati and Peter Limone were released in 1997 and 2001, respectively, after spending 30 years in prison. Lawyers representing the families of Greco, Tameleo, Salvati and Limone currently have lawsuits totaling in excess of one billion dollars filed against the government.
In the fall of 2001 a U.S. House investigating committee began looking into the indiscretions of the Boston FBI office. Their efforts were interrupted by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Former FBI agent Dennis Condon had hoped the attacks would quash the investigation. When he was notified by a committee source that the hearings would reconvene, he responded, �Don�t you have anything better to do?�
When the Kefauver hearings began in 1950, the old-time leadership in Boston feared the publicity might expose them and their operations. Lombardo ordered all bookmaking operations shut down, or to operate without a central layoff bank and without police protection. During the Kefauver �threat� the bookmakers lost Lombardo�s protection service, but gained more freedom to operate. This overreaction to the Kefauver Hearings, which never materialized in Boston, opened the door for Gennaro Angiulo to move in on the gambling operations of the city.
By the late 1950s, Angiulo was being shaken down regularly by mob heavies in Boston because he was not a made member of the Mafia. Angiulo solved this problem by taking $50,000 down to Patriarca in Providence and promising him an additional $100,000 a year. These payments led to Angiulo becoming a made member of the family without having to �make his bones� as other members were required. The Patriarca-Angiulo relationship was strictly financial. Angiulo was never well liked or respected, but as long as he kept the money flowing into Providence he had the backing and protection of Patriarca.
This arrangement would hold up for more than two decades. On September 19, 1983, FBI agents arrested Angiulo, three of his brothers and two other associates in a Boston Restaurant. In the wake of Patriarca�s death in 1984, Angiulo, although still in jail awaiting trial, was hoping to succeed to the top spot. But it was not to be. Disliked in Providence, Angiulo was demoted to a mere soldier when top lieutenant Ilario �Larry� Zannino threw his support behind the late mob boss�s son, Raymond J. �Junior� Patriarca. One Providence police official stated. �If that job had gone to Angiulo, we would have bodies all over the place.�