Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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One of the regulars at Vinny DeQuattro's barber shop on Federal Hill was notorious New England crime lord Raymond L. S. Patriarca. For more than half a century, "Vinny D" was a stylist and confidante to the famous and infamous. Vinny reminisces about those days cutting the mops of the mob and how he sometimes serenaded them with song.

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