In 1967, Barboza’s testimony put Patriarca and Enrico Tameleo, a longtime underboss, behind bars for ten years on a conspiracy to murder charge in connection with the slaying of Providence bookmaker Willie Marfeo. After only five years in prison, Patriarca was freed in 1974 and resumed control of Providence’s criminal organization. Less than two years later, on February 11, 1976, Barboza was dead, killed by four shotgun blasts to the chest as he walked to his car in San Francisco, California, were he was placed their on the Federal Witness Protection Program, the first ever Government Witness to be assassinated while on the Federal Witness Protection Program, a long suspect in the killing was Marino’s alleged unindicted coconspirator: Joseph J.R. Russo, according to the government & its indictment. Russo’s half brother Robert “Bobby Russo” Carrozza, is Marino’s codefendant. See U.S. v. Marino, CR-97-40009-NMG. (District of Massachusetts). Patriarca’s legal problems were far from over. In 1978, mobster Vincent Teresa testified that Patriarca was present when the CIA handed out a $4 million dollar contract to the mob with the instructions that they were to kill Fidel Castro, which was an approved Executive Assassination. Teresa claimed Patriarca helped pick a Brookline, Massachusetts convict by the name of Maurice Werner to kill Castro, but the assassination plot was later scrapped.
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