Patriarca crime family

He was known for his custom-made, wiseguy-style long collar shirts & hawk-like features. Russo was once wanted for robbery in Cleveland, Ohio & by this time was already an ex-convict out on parole. He made his bid for Mob immortality, when he gunned down hitman-turned-FBI-informant, Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, in San Francisco in 1976.

A front for more sinister operations, "the Coin-o-Matic" as it was known, functioned legitimately as a cigarette vending machine and pinball machine business. But for nearly three decades, it was also the nerve center of the New England Mafia. Members and associates referred to it as "The Office."