A federal jury in Boston, MA has convicted Enrico Ponzo on racketeering charges including his role in the 1989 murder attempt against Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme during a power struggle in the Patriarca family as reported by Milton J. Valencia for The Boston Globe. Ponzo was living on the lam as cattle rancher Jay Shaw in Marsing, ID for sixteen years until his apprehension in 2011. The mobster-turned-rancher will be sentenced on March 6, 2014.
Filed under: Mafia, Organized Crime Tagged: Attempted Murder, Enrico Ponzo, Frank Salemme, New England Mafia, Patriarca, Racketeering
