Frank Salemme

Frank Salemme
FBI mugshot of Frank Salemme
Born	(1933-08-18) August 18, 1933 (age 83) Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Francis P. Salemme [Salemmi], also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "Julian Daniel Selig" (born August 18, 1933), is a Boston, Massachusetts mobster who became a hitman and eventually the boss of the Patriarca crime family of New England before turning government witness.

In 1957, while in prison, Salemme became acquainted with Patriarca family mobster Anthony Morelli. After Salemme's release from prison, he started working with Morelli in criminal activities. Although Salemme quickly gained stature in the Patriarca family as an associate, he could not become a made man, or full member. Patriarca boss Raymond Patriarca respected Salemme for his obedience to the family and his skill as a money maker. However, Patriarca only allowed full-blooded Italians to become made men, and Salemme was part Irish from his mother Anne Salemme (née Haverty). During the trial of retired FBI Agent John Connolly, Salemme denied under oath murdering a nightclub owner named Steven DiSarro in 1994. Two years later, however, Steve Flemmi was immunized and told US Attorneys Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly that Flemmi saw Salemme participate in the murder of DiSarro. In fact, when Salemme was finished testifying against Connolly he went back to jail and 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 fellow inmate was an informant who wrote Salemme's confession down and it is memorialized in law enforcement reports . Instead of charging Salemme with the murder of DiSarro, Wyshak and Kelly merely charged Salemme with perjury and obstruction. A secret plea bargain was struck and he was sentenced to little more than time already served. The perjury charge was self-serving in that it was a credibility roadblock to anyone using Salemme as a witness against federal prosecutors who coached him to commit perjury during Connolly's Boston trial. Salemme was free and living on taxpayer money in the Witness Protection Program until August 10th, 2016. He was ineligible for the Program due to his subsequent crimes and conviction, but he is accessible only to the US Attorneys so nobody else can question him about their misconduct. On April 1, 2016, a body was recovered from deep under ground behind the property of an associate of Salemme. The remains are believed to be those of Salemme's victim, Steven DiSarro. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, that the former Mafia boss had been arrested on charges related to murder of a witness. The witness was unnamed as of 8/11/2016, but is expected to be DiSarro. During the early 1960s, Salemme participated in the Irish Gang Wars in Boston. Testifying before Congress in 2003, Salemme admitted to murdering numerous rival gang members in Charlestown, Massachusetts: