I'm back and playing catch-up and all of the points Tom made below I agree with 100%... still reading though... ~ Dave, would you please explain how your...
In regards to consolidation I would point to MAsseria's group as the perfect example, even after his demise. The group that became Luciano's family were not...
I’m not going to go over this again, since it’s been done to death. But for this last time:  The Camorra group in NYC was in fact quite small. ...
These guys, as you might remember, were largely independent in the rackets they operated. In both America and in Sicily, as I explain (once more) in my book,...
All the evidence I am aware of shows that Luciano was the successor of Masseria and that there were no new incorporations of other groups between the time of...
I'm not saying that that groups weren't allied in pretty much the way that they ended up, Richard. But I'd also point out that these groups showed much more...
I looked for a connection between Pelligrino Morano and the other alleged Brooklyn/Navy Street "Camorra" and couldn't find any. That doesn't mean that there...
That was the same point I was trying to make for the most part. These groups while operating seperately and somewhat under the thumb of Joe the Boss were a...
Personally, I believe that Ciro T. was never above a caporegime and was a member of Masseria's outfit. Reina had a separate borgata that Ciro was never part...
Richard Warner: Regarding Mr. Bonanno's autobiography, and your assessment of its reliability (which I share), is there any independent evidence to corroborate...
Roemer pointed out that in the Magaddino bug transcripts that he heard some things that seemed to confirm Bonanno's story. I read some of them and it does...
And the concept of the Commission being willing and capable of fining someone I find a little strange. The Commission was only the most powerful Italian...
Hello all, Based on oral history from some people in Niagara Falls, Bonanno was taken to a location there for 3 days and then moved to Magaddino's farmhouse....
What makes you think Coppolla was a soldier under Ciro T, Rick? A lot of things I've come across seems to indicate that he was not part of that group and was...
Of the known D'Aquila members I've been able to identify, none of them later became part of the Profaci Family. I list some in my book. As I say in the book,...
I infer from some of the events of the 1929 Vitale hold-up that Coppola was under Ciro, as will as the fact that he was his successor as claimed by Valachi. ...
Thanks. I wasn't aware that Magaddino was bugged, but there's certainly no feud like a feud among blood relatives, so the idea that .he was involved makes it...
I'm sure whatever fines were paid were remitted in brown paper bags,  Otherwise, it would be fun to see to whom the checks were made out! There's an...
Thanks. Any corroboration is better than none!. ... From: The Mob Tours <themobtours@...> Subject: Re: [americanmafia] Re: Underworld consolidation To:...
Like I said before, Harlem is especially confusing during that time period. Fromw hat I understand of the hold-up, Ciro Terranova's dinner was robbed by gunmen...
I've not seen any credible information, from memory, that he was associated with any one Mafia group then. We know, of course, that he was a leading...
Policeman of that day commented that they never knew that Costello had any connections at all with Italian gangsters. It has always been sai dthat Costello was...
Today marks the centenary of the murder of anti-organized crime "supercop" Lt. Joseph Petrosino (August 30, 1860 - March 12, 1909). The shooting occurred in...
Was he always a Harlem gangster or was he associated with a Brooklyn gang (Castallamare)? Any connection to one of the Detroit families that made up The...
