The Boston mobster died in a federal prison in Missouri from an undetermined cause
‘He regretted a lot of things in his life but came from a different era. I think he felt particularly bad for the hardship that came to his family and to other families.’‘He regretted a lot of things in his life but came from a different era. I think he felt particularly bad for the hardship that came to his family and to other families.
Salemme fought to overturn the conviction and life sentence handed to him for DiSarro’s murder, but in March he lost his last opportunity for a new trial when the US supreme court declined to take up his appeal. He was housed at a federal prison in Missouri when he died.: “The world is better off without him. Good riddance.”
The gang war that precipitated Salemme’s rise as a mob boss began with a botched attempt to kill him in 1989. Masked attackers shot and wounded him as he walked into a Massachusetts pancake house, and they killed his companion, Billy Grasso. Salemme reacted by sharing what he knew about the two men and their Winter Hill gang. That knowledge helped authorities secure a corruption conviction against Bulger’s FBI contact, former agent John Connolly. Salemme enrolled in a witness protection program which took him to Atlanta and gave him a new name.
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