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WPRI Providence is reporting that mobster Robert “Bobby” DeLuca will plead guilty to charges he lied to investigators regarding a 1993 gangland slaying of Boston nightclub owner Steven DiSarro.
DeLuca, 71 and the one time overseer of the Patriarca crime family gambling and loansharking business, is facing obstruction of justice and making false statement charges following an indictment in June.
From WPRI:
Investigators say DiSarro was strangled by the son of former mob boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, while an associate – Paul Weadick – held his legs. Salemme jr. died in 1995, but the elder Salemme and Weadick have both been charged in DiSarro’s murder.
DeLuca claims that he had met with then-mob boss Salemme in 1993 prior to DiSarro’s disappearance and that Salemme, a silent partner in the nightclub, had accused DiSarro of stealing from the business.
DiSarro’s body was exhumed from behind the Branch Avenue mill building this March, rekindling the investigation into DiSarro’s death.
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- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
