By this time next year, former New England Mob boss Frank Salemme (right) will be back at the Busy Bee in Brookline eating eggs and toast.
In a plea agreement inked this week, Frank, who is 74, admitted he lied to the feds when he claimed another mob boss wanted nightclub owner Stephen DiSarro dead. A federal judge yesterday accepted the plea agreement carrying a five-year sentence that Salemme will have finished by year's end. (Frank's misstep came during federal questioning in 1999 before his lawyer arrived.)
The full story of DiSarro's 1993 disappearance and apparent murder has yet to be told. His body has yet to be found.
Frank's plea deal didn't require him to admit to any role in DiSarro's killing. DiSarro, 43, of Westwood, (left) was impressario at The Channel nightclub in South Boston, that dark dank 1980s punk and rockabilly bastion where Frank's son Frank Jr. and his boys wore their track suits by day and Armani cologne by night.
It wasn't exactly the Bada Bing but DiSarro's partnership with Frank Jr. cost him his life when the twitchy capo got worried DiSarro was the weak link who would turn on them.
Federal prosecutors told the judge yesterday that if they had taken the case to trial, they would have proven Frank Sr. saw his son choke DiSarro to death in Sharon. Frank Jr. died a few years later of AIDS-related cancer. The feds' chief witness, of course, is Salemme's nemesis and one-time close friend Stephen Flemmi, a rotting soul living out his last days in prison after decades of acting as the FBI's top informant.
So why didn't the government charge Frank as an accessory to murder? My bet is they weren't confident enough in Flemmi's ability to nail that one for the team.
The feds brought this case hoping to bring DiSarro's body home for his loved ones but that information apparently went to the grave with Frank Jr.
1 comments:
Oh my, I remember the Channel (vaguely) from the 80s, when I went to BU. When Frank lied to the feds, was his son still alive? Was Frank covering for him, or did he have his own reasons for DiSarro to leave the scene? Frank is an interesting character - not nearly the murderous thugs that Flemmi and Whitey are.
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