Criminal Operations
In 1982 set up his criminal headquarters in the 1800 block of Bancroft Street in Point Breeze, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was overseeing a lucrative extortion and gambling operation that was bringing in an estimated a million a year, but he had attracted the attention of many law enforcement agencies and they had planted several hidden listening devices in his clubhouse. This forced him to move from the Bancroft Street location to the corner of Camac and Moore Street, just off of East Passyunk Avenue in Queen Village, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where a friend of Nicholas Caramandi had rented an old plumbing supply store. In 1982 he was convicted on charges of RICO and sentenced to eight years in prison, but like Joseph (Joey Chang) Ciangalini, Harry Riccobene and a few others, he was free pending an appeal. Then in September, he was jailed for contempt after a convicted arsonist connected him with a corrupt attorney in plans to rig a court case. He was subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating the lawyer and spent about two weeks in jail for refusing to testify. Pat was a frequent patron of Marra's restaurant of Passyunk Avenue where he would spend most of his time drinking. He drove a 1978 two-door grey Cadillac. He was shot three times in the head by Nicholas Caramandi as he sat in his Cadillac on the northeast corner of Eleventh Street at Mifflin in Pennsport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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