B. wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 5:27 pm
As for the Anastasia faction, this is what I've deduced:
- Tommy Rava, John Robilotto, and Neil Dellacroce were the main leaders of the Anastasia faction after the murder. The Anastasia faction of course predated his murder.
- Joe Franco and Carmine Lombardozzi had been earlier members of this faction before Anastasia's murder but Franco betrayed Anastasia and got him killed. Franco dies, but Lombardozzi appears to have aligned himself with the Gambino-Riccobono faction. Ed suspects (as do I) that Lombardozzi "testified" on behalf of Riccobono that Anastasia did indeed put a contract out on leaders of that faction, which a boss did not have the right to do without Commission/consiglio approval.
- According to Magaddino, Rava was a capodecina overseeing a group of many other captains. Robilotto was also a captain and Dellacroce was apparently a soldier under Rava. Rava hid out in Florida.
- John Robilotto decided to "come in" and make peace with the acting leadership under consigliere Carlo Gambino. As a result, Rava and Dellacroce ordered Robilotto's murder. Robilotto was extremely well-liked inside and outside of NYC, with various sources disturbed by it even years later.
- A source was told (I suspect he may have been involved) that Rava decina member Toddo Aurello and a hit team tracked Rava down in FL and killed Rava and an unidentified man. He was never found.
- Another source said Rava was taken to a FL funeral home where Joe Indelicato and Tommy Altamura put him in a coffin and stabbed him with icepicks. They then disposed of his body in the ocean.
^^^ I suspect these two different accounts can be reconciled, i.e. Aurello shot Rava to death, his body was taken to the funeral home where the disposal team (Indelicato + Altamura) were waiting and they stabbed him with the icepicks to ensure he was dead before getting rid of the body
- Dellacroce "comes in" after the Rava murder and is promoted to capodecina. In 1962, Angelo Bruno describes Dellacroce as a "capodecina di capodecina", very similar to the way Magaddino described Rava as a captain overseeing a faction of captains.
- Dellacroce is later made underboss where he continues to oversee a faction of captains until his death though it appears this faction shrunk to a couple of main crews.
- Jimmy Squillante was part of the Anastasia faction and suspected of the Scalise murders, but Joe Valachi said he was murdered after being called to an arguimendo where Squillante disparaged Anastasia. Valachi felt that Squillante was killed at least in part because of how flimsy his loyalties were and the way he spoke against his former boss. Who knows?