Ex-Mafia boss 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme dies in prison at 89

 

Gangster Cadillac Frank dies in Prison.

What does this have to do with Medford? Well, a)it's a mob story, b)guess who opened the Channel nightclub on the Saturday night, headliner yours truly! That was around 1979 or so, 14 years later Cadillac Frank was sentenced for killing one of the managers. Side note: I did not know the manager in 1993. It's the club where I opened for Doors' guitarist Robbie Krieger.

fair use, FBI photo of the thug/gangster

FILE - This 1995 file photo taken in West Palm Beach, Fla., and released by the FBI shows Francis P. "Cadillac Frank" Salemme. Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, has died at the age of 89, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Salemme died on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, according to Bureau of Prisons'