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The Boston Globe Wednesday, July 28, 1971 Police to probe payoff charges Loot from Maine jade theft turned up in Boston lot wo VINCENT TERESA used piranha ft I -TV dividual officers had accepted protection payments. Boston Police Supt. William Bradley said "We are interested in anything this man said." He pledged to investigate all the allegations made by the 42-year old convict. setts av. in Boston on Aug.

2, Miller described the 30 pieces recovered as "priceless." The FBI theorized that the jade was recovered because it was almost impossible for the thieves to sell it. They said the only possible markets existed in Europe and South America, and even in those places few dealers would be interested. According to police, the thieves entered the home through a window and pried open a basement safe in which the jade was kept. They said that 25 to 35 pieces were taken, including jade plaques, jars, a jade and brass incense burner, ivory figurines and other figures. The value of jade is determined by its mineral value, the carvings and the size.

Police said the break was discovered by the caretaker, Felix H. Schroetel. No arrests were made in the case. Mobster details N.E. A self-confessed criminal who testified yesterday before a Senate subcommittee investigating organized crime said he paid for protection from the Boston Police Department while operating a betting establishment in Brighton.

Vincent Teresa charged that in the Mafia and his uncle was Domin-ick Teresa, known as Sandy Mac, a bodyguard for Joseph Lombardi, then boss of the Boston mob. "Through my uncle I was introduced to all the mob people in the Boston area and these included Joe Lombardi, Tony Santonello, Jimmy "Spats" Lombardi, Buttsy Morrelli, Raymond Patriarca and "Fat Tony" Solerno." These were the people from Boston who attended the Framingham meetings with mob figures from all over the country. "My uncle told me that they met to cut the pie, and make plans for the next month. There was a general accounting. There were 15 or 20 cars from different states, but most of the people are dead now." "In my own operations in the Boston, Revere and Flynn areas I was a partner of Bobby Visconti.

He was the office man and I was the outside man. "We had the approval of Raymond Patricia. We had to do it their way or they'd knock us out of business. Sports debts we gave to Larry Bione or to give his real name Larry Zannino. "The numbers layoffs went to Jerry Angiullo.

"The layoffs for horses went to the Lombardis and Jimmy Spats and their group. "Bobby Visconti and I had about 60 to 70 agents spread out all over the territory. Our office was in Brighton where we had some protection from the police department. "In numbers we did between" $2000 and $2500 gross business every week. In horse bets we might do anywhere from $25,000 to $50,000.

Sports action was about the same. "Total action from our small of Special to the Globe FALMOUTH FORESIDE, Me. The $1.2 million jade theft which Vincent "Big Vinnie" Teresa told Senat investigators yesterday he was involved in is believed to have taken place here in 1963. Teresa told the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee he had stolen the jade from a home in Lewiston, but was unable to dispose of the loot because of the pressure of an FBI investigation. On April 5, 1963, jade and ivory worth "hundreds of thousands of dollars" was taken from the palatial waterfront home of the late Byron D.

Miller here. Falmouth Foreside is about 30 miles south of Lewiston. Miller, former president of the Woolworth died in Palm Beach, in 1960. Most of the jade and ivory was recovered from a burned out taxicab in the ITOA parking lot on Massachu- Raymond Patriarca Raymond L. S.

Patriarca, 63, now serving a five-year term in Atlanta Federal prison for conspiracy to mur-. der, was tagged New England's czar of organized crime by "Cosa Nostra" informer Joseph Valachi in 1963. Corroborating Valachi's testimony, the superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police called the Worcester-born Patriarca" "a shrewd, scheming individual as well versed in the ways of crime today as he was in yesteryear as ruthless in the '60s as he was in the '30s Patriarca served three short sentences in Massachusetts prisons during the early 1940s. Left alone' through the 1950s, except for a suit by the Internal Revenue Service for tax evasion in 1954, Patriarca was brought to Federal trial in 1968 with two of his alleged Henry Tameleo Henry Tameleo, 68, of Cranston, R.I.' has been on death row in Wal-pole State Prison since his conviction in 1968 with five others of the murder of Edward Deegan in Chelsea in 1965. Identified in 1963 by Joseph Valachi as New England crime king Raymond Patriarca's lieutenant in charge of loan-shark operations, Tameleo has a police record dating back to 1918.

Tameleo's Massachusetts conviction in the Deegan slaying was based on testimony by Joseph (Barboza) Baron, whose testimony to a Federal Gennaro Angiullo Gennaro "Gerry Angiullo, 51 reportedly heads a family with vast Boston holdings in real estate and gaming. After Joseph Valachi told Senate investigators that Angiullo was New England's heir apparent to Raymond Patriarca's criminal domain, a Boston police superintendent said of Gennaro: "We know that Gerry is in constant contact with Raymond Patriarca in Providence, R.I." said former Supt. John T. Howland in 1963. Angiullo was sentenced to one month in Federal prison in 1966 for threatening an Internal Revenue Service investigator.

In 1968, a Suffolk County Superior Court judge acquitted him and MEYER LANSKY gambling boss crime Lester delivered the securities to Durkin at the brokerage house and a few days later a check for $120,000 arrived at the phony address." He described a deal where a New York hood named Carmine Lombar-dozzi offered him $1000 bills in packets of $100,000 apiece in exchange for $93,000 in small bills. "I offered to take all he had and was prepared to go as high as which meant that I could make $21,000 for about ten minutes work," he said. "I had that much cash on me at the time. That night, he said, he went with friends to the Copacabana night club and met Sonny Franzese and other mob figures. "While in New York that week I purchased some hot jewelry from Jack Mace for $25,000 and purchased about $8000 worth of clothing for myself.

The story about the loan sharking company with the live piranha fish fascinated the committee. "Patriarca and Tameleo and I received the proceeds from a protection racket set up through Romeo Martino and Joe Barbosa. "I was also an officer in Pan American Finance Co. and the Piranha Co. acting as a representative for Henry Tameleo and Ray Patriarca together with Peter and George Kater who were reluctant partners in this operation.

"Let me explain why they were reluctant partners. They were a couple of Lebanese boys who wanted to go into the loan business in Boston but the mob wouldn't let them. "Eventually the mob let them operate as long as I was there as the mob's representative. "Ray Patriarca and Henry Tameleo got an envelope containing a certain percentage every month from the Katers and I got paid $250 a week just for showing up once a day for half an hour." Teresa said the best source for counterfeit credit cards was Jack Mace in New York, who had a big connection inside American Express Co. and Rudy Sciarra in Providence whom he described as a very good source.

made-to-order, as many as you, wanted, with any name, any code number, any expiration date. And no one could tell the difference between them and the real cards. "If you called Rudy a couple of days ahead of time you could have 200 cards at $15 apiece." Teresa said one of the reasons it was important to have phony credit cards available was to keep down expenses in the stolen car ring he operated. That worked this way: He would hire a man, give him a credit card, have him fly one way to Florida where he would rent a Cadillac or Lincoln for three weeks. He would drive the car north to Boston, using the credit card to sleep, buy food and buy gas enroute.

"As soon as I got the car I'd move it out of the country or to Las Vegas or somewhere. I had a month before the car would even be reported stolen." Teresa said that he frequently worked deals with store managers to make money on phony credit cards. "You could go into a clothing store, tell the manager, 'make me up a bill for $700 and I'll sign it. I don't want any clothes. Just give me $300 in cash.

When the bill is paid, you can have the "We could do that in restaurants too," Teresa said, "buy a meal for $15, let the manager make out a tab for $75 and he would give you another $15 for your pocket, then he would keep the $75 when it came in. "The same thing applied to tire companies. You tell the boss, 'make a charge slip for five Dual 90s that cost almost $100 apiece. Give me $150 and you keep the balance when it comes Teresa's sentence on the stolen securities charge was reduced from 20 years to five years making him eligible for parole in October. This was done after he had indicated to the government that he would cooperate.

However, he faces a five to seven year sentence after pleading guilty to being involved in a huge stolen car ring in Pittsf ield. He told the committee that in his 28 years of crime he had earned more than $6 million. "But it didn't matter how much I earned. I gambled twice as much. I was like a man in a candy store." CRIME Continued from Page 1 He was involved in the theft of $1.2 million in jade from a Lewiston, Maine home, but was unable to dispose of it because of the intensity of the FBI investigation.

In the mid-60s he and Tameleo were involved in a loan shark operation called the Piranha Co. named after the man-eating fish. "We had a live one in a fish bowl in the place," he told the committee. "We wanted to be known as a tough outfit. If anybody was slow in paying, we told him we'd stick his hand in the fishbowl." Once or twice a week he and others would fix a horse race at Suffolk Downs by administering a stimulant.

A winning horse's urine is tested for drugs, so the mob would pay $500 to substitute urine without evidence of drugs. Later they improved the scheme. They would wait for a race with few horses. In a race with, say, six horses, they would select the probable winner, and administer depressants to the other five. He gave Francois "Papa Doc" DuValier, late dictator-of Haiti, a Cadillac to win his blessings for a Haitian casino venture that never developed.

He avoided arrest in a check scheme in 1969 when a friend in the Boston Police Dept. warned him that the detective division had been i alerted. He named Meyer Lansky and Dino Cellini as leaders of a gambling empire that extends into every casino in the free world. Lansky now in Is- xael was indicted this year in a case which disclosed mob interest in Las Vegas casinos, and in hotels and real estate in Florida. Cellini was not fur- ther identified.

The syndicate is becoming more active in legitimate business. Anguillo owns a bowling alley and motel, and Anguillo and Patriarca owned a golf course in western Massachusetts. "I don't know how many motels and restaurants in the Boston area they have pieces of say 25 or 30 percent." He and Bobby Visconti operated an extensive gambling network in Boston, Revere and Lynn, with the approval of Patriarca. They had 60 to 70 agents and their office was in Brighton where they paid police $200 a month to leave them alone. He declined to name the policeman he paid because he said he was dead.

The committee is the Senate Per-( manent Investigations Subcommit-i tee, headed by Sen. John L. Mc-Clellan, which is studying connections between organized crime i and Wall Street. It is the most detailed look at organized crime in America since 1963 when Joseph Valachi appeared be-; fore the same committee to describe Cosa Nostra operations. Teresa, who weighs 300 pounds, was dressed in mustard colored slacks and a bright green checkered jacket.

His testimony was speckled with colorful recollections from his life of crime. He said he made his decision to cooperate with the law when the FBI proved to him that the syndicate was squealing about his activities. "They wanted to do it to me he 'said, "well I've done it instead to them. The FBI convinced me that I was a fool. They were 100 percent right.

"It was just a matter of time before I would have been killed killed while I was in prison. They wanted to get me out of the way. My friends were in jail like I was. There was nobody fighting for me on the outside." "Couldn't you have made a deal with someone on the outside?" a senator asked. "You can't trust them," Teresa said.

"They're a shady bunch of characters." Teresa's testimony began with his birth in Revere and carefully traced a career in crime that began with the burglary of the North End Meat Market in Medford when he was in the leventh grade and ended with his involvement in sophisticated multi-Billion dollar swindles. His first place of employment was the Royal Tomato Packing Co. in Boston where he earned $12 a week legally, but he managed to rob the company of about $1500. He said he was born and raised with the mob. His father was a don in that organized crime involved mostly -Italians but he said there was Jewish influence at high levels.

"Narcotics may be big in New York with the drugstore gangsters but in Bostor the leaders would not touch it. "Loan sharking is a big business but it could not exist without gambling as its base." He described himself as mostly a loser, an incurable gambler, a "gambling degenerate." To cover gambling debts he said he became involved in more crime and loan sharking. Here is how he described a loan swindle in Lynn: "In 1967 through Jack Hirschfeld I met an individual named Ken Smith who was a bank officer in a bank in Lynn where a deal was set up whereby loans were made to approximately 20 to 30 individuals sent to the bank by me using no collateral on the loans which ranged from $1500 to $3500 and kicking back $200 on each loan to Smith. "Not only was there no collateral involved there were no real people involved. I used to take the names from tombstones in the cemetery.

"Then I'd call the bank and tell Smith 'Jim O'Reilly is coming over today. Give him "Smith thought he would get a further percentage back from my loan sharking operation. But we didn't intend to give him anything. "Smith was under the impression that the monies these people were borrowing would be turned over to me and I in turn would use these funds to further my shylocking operations, but in reality I was not doing this. "Through these arrangements with Smith approximately $100,000 in loans were made with Smith receiving approximately $20,000 for his end.

"This resulted in my being indicted along with Smith and Danny Mon-dodano and others in 1968. There has been no disposition in this matter for me at this time. "Smith however had served a prison term for giving phony mortgages on houses that didn't exist." Teresa went- into considerable' detail about worldwide gambling junkets. "In January of 1968 I went into the gambling junket operation. We had three things in mind.

One, we wanted to meet suckers; two, we wanted to make loan sharks out of them; and, three, later we wanted to get them obligated to me. "I should explain the operation of gambling junkets. With the permission of our bosses, Raymond Patriarca and the rest, we opened an office to take people who wanted to gamble to casinos in foreign countries. "For example we made arrangements in London at George Raft's Colony Club to bring 20 people to gamble. They put in $1000 apiece.

"When they got to London they received $820 back in gambling chits while we paid their hotel, food and airline charges. "Naturally most of them lost money in the casinos and we got 15 percent of their losses. "Furthermore since you had a group of people, most of whom had money, you could run gambling parties in the hotels outside the casino where the games can be fixed up and you can make a lot of money. I have known guys to be knocked off for $100,000 on such junkets." He said he ran the junkets to Portugual, San Rosa, Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, London, and the Carribbean. "And the amazing thing was that they were impressed by us who were trying our best to get all their money.

It was very simple to take them probably because they are all very greedy." He described several ruses involving stocks including one he used in the summer of 1968. He said he was told of a friend named Durkin in a now-defunct brokerage firm in Boston who could dispose of stolen securities by using a phony, name and opening an account in his firm. "We decided to use the name of Richard Daly who has had a reputation in the Boston brokerage community as a heavy trader. Teresa said that they sent a man named Joey Lester to the brokerage house and opened an account under Daly's name using a phony address in Revere as a mail drop. The first batch of securities was $120,000 worth of various street name certificates delivered by Jack Mace to Teresa's home in North Reading.

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Joseph (Barboza) Baron was chief witness in the trial which ended convictions for all three defendants. A diabetic, Patriarca lived and "made his base in Providence with his wife, Helen Mandella Patriarca, who died in 1965, until he entered Atlanta prison in 1969. HENRY TAMELEO grand jury also led to Tameleo's 1968 Federal trial and conviction with Patriarca of conspiring to murder Providence gambler William Marfeo in 1966. GENNARO ANGIULLO three others charged with the slaying of Newton boxer Rocco DiSeglio in 1966. A Federal court acquitted him in 1970 of the charge of being an accessory after the fact in a armed robbery of the Jamaica Plain Veterans' Administration Hospital in 1966.

Subcommittee lat Thursday that he paid $60,000 in 1962 in return for a suspended sentence after his trial foe an oil lease swindle. He asserted Superior Court Judge Edward J. DeSaulnier Jr. was the judge who got at least some of the money in a bribe arranged by Charles Baker, a bail bondsman. Baker and Judge DeSaulnier have denied knowledge of any such transaction.

Superior Court Judge Vincent R. Brogna presided at Raymond's 1963 trial and handed down a suspended sentence, according to court records. When questioned by the Senate subcommittee, Raymond was unable to remember the trial judge's name. Droney said yesterday his investigators would also attempt to obtain a transcript of Raymond's testimonv before the subcommittee. 4- i iS1 Ifif -Ax 4 r- YS LJ fice was maybe $100,000 to maybe $115,000 a week.

We paid the police about $200 a month. "We paid $200 a month for phones and we paid rent for the apartment we were in. The woman who held the lease got $200 a month so our expenses ran about $700 a month. "We' paid the agents 25 percent of the play. So Bobby and I cleared in a decent week between $7000 and $8000 each.

We did not have to pay anything to the mob because Raymond Patriarca and Henry Tameleo owed me a few favors. "In my opinion the way to stop organized gambling run by the mob is to forget the big men who are smart and have the best lawyers and don't even go to the offices. You can't indict them. "You've got to knock out the agents who are on the streets. Now if they're caught they get a $50 fine or a $100 fine.

I think they ought to go to jail if they get caught for a good stiff bit. A couple of years. If you scare the agents with tough sentences they'll quit. Teresa said only Federal force can organized crime because local officials "by the ton" are crooked. "I think you should give more power to the FBI that's the only outfit the mob is scared of." "In 28 years on the street I never heard of a crooked FBI guy, not one you could get to (with a bribe)." "You mean by that," asked Sen.

Charles Percy "that you've heard of crooke'd state and local officials?" "By the ton," said Teresa. He said he did not fear mob retaliation for his testimony. "I got a death sentence out against me already. They're never going to forgive me for what I done already." "They treated me like a son. I never became a member of the Patriarca family which ran things in New England because I didn't want tp be a member.

But I worked for them for years and recognized that they ran things. The committee seemed surprised to learn that Patriarca maintains his influence on New England crime from a jail cell in Atlanta. "He's in jail but he's got 40 guys on the outside working for him. He's still the boss of Providence and Boston and what he says goes and that's the end of it. "Raymond gets visitors and he tells them, 'go back and tell my brother that this is what I want done this Teresa said that in the beginning he enjoyed his life of crime but that in later years there was too much pressure.

"You have to be on your toes; you have to wake up early in the morning and start thinking. He said there was no question Investigators go to D.G. to speak with Raymond Investigators working for Middlesex County Dist. Atty. John J.

Droney will go to Washington today in an effort to interview Michael J. Raymond, the Senate subcommittee witness who last week implicated two Massachusetts judges in a $60,000 bribe. The investigators. State Police Det. Lts.

William C. Nally and Peter Agnes, spent several hours yesterday in Worcester. Droney refused to disclose the purpose of their visit Attorney Richard G. Crotty, one of four lawyers who represented Raymond in a 1962 fraud case, has a law office in Worcester. Crotty's secretary said he was somewhere in Boston yesterday afternoon.

The attorney could not be reached last night for comment. Raymond testified before the Senate's Permanent Investigations.