The Patriarca Papers - Entry 1

Monday, August 03, 2015
GoLocalWorcester News Team

Today, GoLocal releases the first segment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s file on Raymond Patriarca — the head of New England organized crime for forty years.

Each Monday GoLocal will release a segment of the files along with the insights by leading experts on organized crime.  In addition, GoLocal will provide a "cheat sheet" each week of some of the highlights from the documents.

“Raymond Patriarca Sr. ran the organized crime family for many years out of Providence.  The Patriarca family controlled all of New England including Boston.  The underboss at the time was Gennaro Angiulo who worked out of the North End in Boston and ran the Angiulo family… He was feared and respected by the criminal element,” said Tom Foley, former head of Massachusetts State Police  and one of the first to blow the whistle on the FBI’s handling of Whitey Bulger.  

This first segment of documents will be the smallest - just 42 pages.

Follow the release of the documents each week.