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Just finished reading Ray Flynn’s Confession of a Hitman. He worked for Buster Wortman in East St Louis. He claims him and Art Berne use to drive up to Chicago to meet with Jackie Cerone and Joey Aiuppa. The East Side Crew took orders from Chicago. Does anyone know if they fell under any capo or an...

Great writeup and analysis, chin! I might suggest Joe Valachi's Real Thing as another source.

https://mafiahistory.us/a023/therealthing.htm

The Decavalcante tape transcripts might have additional information too.

funkster wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:30 am Hey Ant, have you heard anything from your sources lately?

Every now and then, but nothing really new to add.

I did a quick search and found a list of informants made by maxiestern in 2018 that included Larry Gallo: https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtopic.php?p=123814&hilit=larry+gallo+informant+rat#p123814 There might be earlier results, but others have already noted that Gallo was mentioned in a cou...

Bonanno doesn't give exact dates, but based on his timeline Maranzano represented the Family at a meeting with Masseria and Morello around June 1930 after Gaspare Milazzo was killed then Schiro went into hiding and kept his boss title at least temporarily before Vito Bonventre was killed in mid-Jul...

Ditto. Fantastic find. You know we're going to look over that photo with a microscope to find Maranzano, LOL.

- A lot of bold claims here, but it's at least true that Accardo fell out of favor as boss as he said so himself on a recording. - The cited article says Sam Battaglia, Sam Giancana, and "Jack Capone" were "representatives of Paul Ricca" who were unhappy with Accardo. - "Ja...

Does anyone have any information on Troia's movements after he entered the country from the period 1925-1927? I'm assuming he spent some time in New York and then Madison, Wisconsin. The earliest I can pin him to Rockford is March 1927 Vincenzo “Big Vince” Troia: 1925 allegedly entered the U.S. ill...

Would be interested if he knows anything about the early history of the L.A. mob. Not sure if Paduano was ever made, so it could be a long shot. If he was made, when was he? And how many members remain?

Louis Eboli headed the Grand Ave crew when Lombardo went away. There's some speculation that he was an acting capo, but I haven't seen evidence for it. He was apparently followed by Tony Centracchio. In the Family Secrets trial it came out that Lombardo had been shelved, but we don't know when. It c...

Merry Christmas everybody!

Here's his family tree:

https://pauljgatto.tripod.com/luzzi_descendants.htm

You should turn this into an Informer Journal article.

Frank Cullotta was one of the informants who insisted that Ferriola was the boss after Aiuppa. He added that after Lombardo went to prison that he and Tony reported to Ferriola, so it seemed that he was being groomed for the top spot. But would that mean that Ferriola was necessarily being groomed ...

Great research, Jon. You should also advertise this in Mafia groups in Facebook.