by B. » Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:30 pm
Reviving this great thread because of some reading I was doing recently...
The wife of somewhat recent CDG family leader Gioacchino Calabro is a Fiordilino and she was described as helping him run the family while he was in prison. Though not as well-known as names like Bonventre, Buccellato, Magaddino, Evola, Domingo, Asaro etc., the Fiordilinos and their relatives look to be a major "missing link" between Castellammare and New York, especially in the post-1950s period. Giovanni Fiordilino is somewhat known because he was a captain in the post-Joe Bonanno era and later returned to Sicily, with his relatives Francesco Navarra and Santo Giordano being high-ranking Castellammarese Bonanno members in his wake. CC and Antiliar's Informer article ID'd some early Navarras from CDG who were linked with the earliest incarnation of the Bonanno family, so this group could be related to them.
Santo Giordano's uncle Gaspare "Nino" Bonventre had a niece with the surname Fiordilino and this Gaspare Bonventre may have been been the older man "FNU Bonventre" referred to as a participant in the three captains murder as well as the same Gaspare Bonventre identified as a CDG member who traveled between the US and Sicily. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe at least one or two other Fiordilinos have been mentioned by JimmyB in the past as CDG members in recent decades. So along with these names being intertwined and interrelated, they appear to be among some of the most enduring and prominent names in the Castellammarese mafia circle on both sides of the ocean. I'd be curious if there are other Giordanos ID'd as members/associates in CDG.
The "Mysterious Bonventres" topic I made a while back connects to this discussion, too:
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2793
Reviving this great thread because of some reading I was doing recently...
The wife of somewhat recent CDG family leader Gioacchino Calabro is a Fiordilino and she was described as helping him run the family while he was in prison. Though not as well-known as names like Bonventre, Buccellato, Magaddino, Evola, Domingo, Asaro etc., the Fiordilinos and their relatives look to be a major "missing link" between Castellammare and New York, especially in the post-1950s period. Giovanni Fiordilino is somewhat known because he was a captain in the post-Joe Bonanno era and later returned to Sicily, with his relatives Francesco Navarra and Santo Giordano being high-ranking Castellammarese Bonanno members in his wake. CC and Antiliar's Informer article ID'd some early Navarras from CDG who were linked with the earliest incarnation of the Bonanno family, so this group could be related to them.
Santo Giordano's uncle Gaspare "Nino" Bonventre had a niece with the surname Fiordilino and this Gaspare Bonventre may have been been the older man "FNU Bonventre" referred to as a participant in the three captains murder as well as the same Gaspare Bonventre identified as a CDG member who traveled between the US and Sicily. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe at least one or two other Fiordilinos have been mentioned by JimmyB in the past as CDG members in recent decades. So along with these names being intertwined and interrelated, they appear to be among some of the most enduring and prominent names in the Castellammarese mafia circle on both sides of the ocean. I'd be curious if there are other Giordanos ID'd as members/associates in CDG.
The "Mysterious Bonventres" topic I made a while back connects to this discussion, too:
http://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2793