The turmoil in the New England underworld temporarily ceased in the fall of 1989, months after Salemme survived an assassination attempt and Patriarca, Jr.’s underboss William (Billy the Wild Man) Grasso was killed, with a conciliatory “making” ceremony of Russo and Ferrara loyalists that was taped by the FBI with the help of Boston mob turncoat Angelo (Sonny) Mercurio.
Spagnolo and Quintina, members of the Russo-Ferrara faction of the conflict, were each present at the recorded induction that took place at a house in suburban Medford on October 29, 1989. Audio surveillance of the ceremony and the undercover work of DelaMontaigne were both included as part of a massive 1990 federal racketeering case levied against the Patriarca Family which ensnared, Spagnolo, Patriarca, Jr., Russo, Ferrara and DiGiacomo, among others.
With the entire leadership of the New England mob either dead or in jail, Cadillac Frank Salemme assumed control of the Family and began taking vengeance on those who had tried to kill him, a period of bloodshed in the early 1990s that resulted in at least another half-dozen casualties. Salemme was busted on racketeering offenses in 1995 and eventually became an informant.