Carlo Mastrototaro (1920– October 5, 2009) was an Italian-American gangster who served as a capo with the Genovese crime family, which was affiliated with the Patriarca crime family. Mastototaro reigned as local crime boss of Worcester, Massachusetts for half-a-century.[1]
During his reign as the boss of New England organized crime, Raymond L.S. Patriarca (Il Patrone) formed strong relationships with the New York City families particularly the Colombo.[2] Il Patrone worked with the Genovese family and decided that dividing line between the New York families and his family would be the Connecticut River.[2] The New England crime family would control organized crime in Worcester (which the Genovese family wound up holding as a fiefdom) and Boston, as well as the state of Maine, while the Genovese family would control organized crime in Hartford, Springfield, and Albany.[2]