- Enrico Tameleo
Enrico "Henry" Tameleo (d. 1985), also known as "The Referee," was an
Italian-American mobster fromBoston, Massachusetts andUnderboss in theNew England -basedPatriarca crime family ofLa Cosa Nostra from 1952 to 1968.Criminal career
Tameleo was a long time participant in
organized crime and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Patriarca family. in 1967, Tameleo,Raymond L.S. Patriarca , and Jerry Anguilo were charged with themurder ofbookmaker Willie Marfeo . Before the trial's conclusion, onMarch 12 ,1965 , Tameleo, Peter Limone, Louis Greco, and Joseph Salvati wereindicted for the murder of hoodlum Edward "Teddy" Deegan . In 1968, all four men were found guilty of the Deegan murder in theSuperior Court ofSuffolk County, Massachusetts , and sentenced to death by the state. This penalty was later reduced to life in prison, where Tameleo died in 1985.Wrongful Conviction
By 2000, all charges had been dismissed against Tameleo and the other accused men amid accusations of a government frame-up and cover-up extending over thirty years. ["Peter J. Limone v. United States" (September 17, 2004)] In 2007, a federal judge in Boston awarded damages of $101.7 million to the four men who were wrongly convicted in the 1965 Deegan murder. It was proved that
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agentsH. Paul Rico , Dennis Condon, John Morris, and John Connolly withheld evidence of the defendants' innocence in order to protect FBIinformants Vincent "Jimmy the Bear" Flemmi andJoseph Barboza . Out of this settlement, $13 million went to the estate of Enrico Tameleo, specifically his son, Saverio, as administrator of the Tameleo estate, and Tameleo's wife Jeanette. ["WCVB Boston", Breakdown Of Award To Men Wrongly Convicted Of Murder. July 26, 2007]Notes
ee also
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Patriarca crime family
*Winter Hill Gang
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