Animal (45 page)

JOSEPH SALVATI

Currently living in Massachusetts enjoying both his freedom and his family.

AUTHOR
’
S NOTE

To complete this book, I had to stand on the shoulders of those great writers and journalists who covered the FBI’s relationship with organized crime dating back to the midway point of the last century. I tip my cap to all of them.

I would also like to thank Donald Barboza, James Southwood, and John Cavicchi for their insight and guidance along the way. My goal was never to sensationalize or pay tribute to Joe “the Animal” Barboza; instead, I hoped to explain his crimes and the crimes of the federal government. The path taken by the FBI in the 1960s in the war on organized crime is eerily similar to the path some government agents took decades later in the war on terror, where their original noble efforts eventually created an enemy within.

I would like to thank my family, Laura, Mia, and Bella for putting up with lost weekends to the cause and some odd music emanating from time to time from my office. My personal playlist accompanies each chapter here.

I would also like to thank my mother, Diane, brother Todd, and Uncle Jim for their continued support. Thanks also to my good friend Toby Duane for first making me aware of Joe Barboza and his story more than two decades ago.

For further reading, I would suggest picking up Howie Carr’s
The Brothers Bulger
; and
Hitman, The Underboss
by Dick Lehr and Gery O’Neill;
Paddywhacked
by T. J. English;
My Life in the Mafia
by Vincent Teresa;
Boston Organized Crime
by Emily Sweeney (thanks for the great photos);
The Mob and Me
by John Partington and Arlene Violet;
WITSEC
by Pete Earley and Gerald Shur; and, if you can find it,
Barboza
by Joe Barboza and Hank Messick. These books were an incredible help during my research.

Out of the shadows now and off to chase the sun— Regards
,
CASEY SHERMAN
, 2012

NOTES

1
Vincent Teresa (with Thomas C. Renner),
My Life in the Mafia
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973), 253.

2
See whalingcity.net: “Local New Bedford, Ma. History 1850—1858 in Chronological Order.”

3
“Azoreans on Shore in New England,” by Robert L. Santos, California State University, Stanislaus Librarian/Archivist.

4
“Mass Moments—Stock Exchange Crash Heralds Great Depression,” Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities 2011.

5
Author interview with Donald Barboza, June 2012.

6
Joseph Barboza (with Hank Messick),
Barboza
(New York: Dell, 1975), 29.

7
Ibid., 30.

8
Teresa,
My Life in the Mafia
, 57.

9
“Special Report: State of the Mob,”
Providence Sunday Journal
, July 15, 1984.

10
“Worcester Mafia Boss Frank Iaconi’s War with the Providence Mob,” by Steven R. Maher,
InCity Times
, October 8, 2008.

11
Ibid.

12
Teresa,
My Life in the Mafia
, 54.

13
“Prisons: The Siege of Cherry Hill,”
Time
magazine, January 31, 1955.

14
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 40.

15
Congressional Reports: H. Rpt. 108–414, “Everything Secret Degenerates: The FBI’s Use of Murderers as Informants,” vols. 1, 2.

16
John Partington (with Arlene Violet),
The Mob and Me: Wiseguys and the Witness Protection Program
(New York: Gallery Books, 2010), 3.

17
Ibid.

18
Providence Journal Bulletin
, September 10, 1961.

19
Teresa,
My Life in the Mafia
, 52.

20
Gerard O’Neil and Dick Lehr,
The Underboss
(PublicAffairs Books, 1989), 51.

21
Howie Carr,
The Brothers Bulger
(Grand Central Publishing, 2006), 48.

22
Joe the Rat Valachi
. A&E Home Video. 2004.

23
Ibid.

24
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 257.

25
“Investigations: The Smell of It,”
Time
magazine, Friday, October 11, 1963.

26
Ibid.

27
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 42.

28
Ibid., 52.

29
Ibid., 21.

30
Ibid., 61.

31
Ibid.

32
Ibid., 62.

33
Congressional Reports, “Everything Secret Degenerates,” vols. 1, 2.

34
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 65.

35
Howie Carr (with John Martorano),
Hitman
(New York: Forge Publishing Company, 2011), 87.

36
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 69.

37
Ibid., 70.

38
“Mob Warfare Is Replacing Stranglings,” by James Calogero, Associated Press, January 13, 1965.

39
Ibid.

40
Teresa,
My Life in the Mafia
, 272.

41
FBI Field Memo, March 10, 1965.

42
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 103.

43
Ibid., 104.

44
Ibid., 103.

45
Ibid., 101.

46
FBI interview of Anthony Stathopoulos, August 22, 2001.

47
Ibid.

48
Ibid.

49
Deposition of Francis P. Salemme,
Limone vs. United States
, March 20, 2001.

50
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 112.

51
Ibid., 113.

52
Ibid., 114.

53
Ibid., 116.

54
Ibid., 117.

55
Ibid., 119.

56
Congressional Reports, “Everything Secret Degenerates,” vols. 1, 2.

57
Ibid.

58
Ibid.

59
Teresa,
My Life in the Mafia
, 117.

60
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 126.

61
Ibid., 127.

62
Ibid., 128.

63
Congressional Reports, “Everything Secret Degenerates,” vols. 1, 2.

64
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 130.

65
“2 Slain in Revere Bar,” by Jeremiah Murphy,
Boston Globe
, November 16, 1965.

66
Ibid., 133.

67
“Was Just a Question of Time for the Hughes Brothers,” by Richard Connolly,
Boston Globe
, September 24, 1966.

68
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 137.

69
Ibid., 136.

70
State v. Patriarca
, 308 a.d 300 (1973), Supreme Court of Rhode Island, July 20, 1973.

71
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 145.

72
“It Was Just a Question of Time for the Hughes Brothers,” by Richard J. Connolly,
Boston Globe
, September 24, 1966.

73
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 145.

74
Ibid., 155.

75
Ibid.

76
Ibid., 156.

77
Ibid., 158.

78
Ibid.

79
Ibid., 160.

80
Ibid., 162.

81
Ibid., 165.

82
Federal Bureau of Investigation Memo 166–629, March 8, 1967, pg. 1, submitted by SA’s Dennis M. Condon and H. Paul Rico.

83
Ibid., 2.

84
Ibid., 3.

85
Barboza (with Messick),
Barboza
, 166.

86
Federal Bureau of Investigation Memo 166–629, March 21, 1967, 5.

87
Federal Bureau of Investigation Memo 166–629, March 8, 1967, 5.