BOSTON (AP) — A former New England Mafia boss convicted of killing a nightclub owner in 1993 is set to be sentenced.
FILE – This 1995 file booking photo taken in West Palm Beach, Fla., and released by the FBI shows Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme. Opening statements are expected Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in federal court in Boston, in the trial of the ex-mafia boss Salemme and co-defendant Paul Weadick. Prosecutors said Salemme watched his son strangle nightclub owner Steven DiSarro in 1993 while Weadick held DiSarro’s legs off the ground. Salemme and Weadick deny participating in DiSarro’s killing. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via AP, File)
Eighty-five-year-old Francis Salemme, known as “Cadillac Frank,” faces life in prison when he is sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston.
Salemme and his co-defendant, Paul Weadick, were found guilty in June of killing Steven DiSarro to keep him from talking to authorities. Salemme and Weadick have denied involvement in the killing.
Salemme was head of the New England family of La Cosa Nostra in the early 1990s
DiSarro’s body wasn’t found until 2016, when authorities received a tip it was buried behind a building in Providence, Rhode Island.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters in June that Salemme’s conviction ends a “long and dark chapter” in Boston history.
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