Former Mob Boss Headed Back To Court

BOSTON -- There was a brief court appearance Wednesday for former Mob Boss "Cadillac" Frank Salemme.

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David Boeri Reports On Charges

NewsCenter 5's David Boeri reported that Salemme is back behind bars charged with obstruction of justice and lying to federal prosecutors. Federal investigators say he knows much more than he's letting on about the disappearance of a Westwood man who hasn't been seen since 1993.

When Boeri found Salemme out of the witness protection program and back on the streets of Boston ion April, Salemme was intent on writing a book that would reveal the depths of FBI corruption involving James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.

But then history caught up with him, in the way of a murder. Federal prosecutors now say he lied about after he reached a deal in which he swore to tell investigators everything, and then didn't. In court, Salemme admitted to murdering eight people.

At the time prosecutors told the judge they believed there were more.

"They named off a bunch of Italian sounding names. I call them the A-E-I-O-U murders," Salemme told Boeri in April.

Under the letter O, file Stephen DiSarro, a nightclub manager of The Channel in South Boston, missing and presumed murdered, and an associate of Frank Salemme's son, Junior.

According to sources and police informants, in May 1993, DiSarro was driven from his home in Westwood to a home in Sharon belonging to Salemme's ex-wife. Alice Salemme was upstairs, and downstairs, four men were in the basement: Salemme, his son Frank Jr, his brother Jackie, as well as DiSarro. A commotion broke out according to the informant, and DiSarro was murdered.

The strong possibility why not is that if Salemme had told the truth about DiSarro's murder, he would have implicated both his brother and the dead son he adored. Instead, he denied any involvement in DiSarro's disappearance.

So although he could have had immunity, he was instead vulnerable when his old partner in crime Flemmi, who had betrayed him before, told investigators that Salemme was involved up to his "eyeballs."