“Cadillac Frank” Salemme, former New England mafia boss ,
The trial against alleged Boston mob associate Enrico Ponzo who is accused of attempting the murder of former mafia crime boss Cadillac Frank Salemme, featured the first Mafia induction ceremony the FBI captured on tape
Ponzo , a pint-sized pistolero who prosecutors said vanished in 1994,only to be captured in 2011 living in Idaho as John Shaw saw his Patriarca pal from the past ,Vinny Federico, testify as a witness for the prosecution
Federico, a former Patriarca mob member from Boston’s North End — who was formally sworn in as a made man in the infamous Mafia induction ceremony captured on tape , testified he knew Ponzo when he was a mobster
Read the story by Laurel J. Swee, Boston Herald
