PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Edward Lato, the reputed underboss of the New England crime family, died Friday after a lengthy health battle. He was 77. Lato, of Johnston, had been a longtime fixture ...

BOSTON – When James "Whitey" Bulger ruled the streets of South Boston, the New England crime scene was ... who ran the rackets for the Patriarca crime family in Boston from the 1960s to the ...

He got out in 1988 and joined the Patriarca crime family, the leading organization within the New England Mafia, just as a generational transition was setting off a leadership struggle.