by B. » Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:43 pm
Stroccos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:09 am
B. wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:56 pm
I'm responsible for taking my own thread off track, but here is some more on Cali:
- Cali was described by the FBI as taking over as acting captain of the D'Amico crew in 2005 when D'Amico was elevated to acting boss. So reports of Cali as an acting captain (I've seen this as early as 2003, and Johnny Scootch mentioned even earlier) would seem to be referring only to the John Gambino decina pre-2005.
- First reference to Cali as simply a captain (not specified as "acting") is 2008. This coincides timing-wise with the report I've mentioned in other threads of John Gambino being upped to a ruling panel in 2008 along with Vernace and Marino. Not sure Cali became official at that point, though, as I believe Cali was indicted as an acting captain, though it gets confusing at this point with Cali having a position in both the Gambino and D'Amico crews and how those crews had been more or less merged in the 1990s before Gambino was promoted back to captain. Were there any articles naming him an official captain before the reports started coming in of him as an admin member?
- As of the early 2000s, both Cali's Staten Island home in Todt Hill and his business Bontel were on property owned by Francesco Inzerillo, cousin of his wife and Cali's top associate in the Gambino family. Inzerillo appears to have been a buffer for Cali in virtually every aspect of his life, at least through the late 2000s.
- The LoVerdes, previously described as Cali's business partners and top legitimate associates, did constant business with Gambino capodecina Carmine Sciandra's Top Tomato stores. Sciandra was a member of Tommy Gambino's crew and Sciandra's father Gandolfo "Buddy" was described in 1960s FBI reports as a cousin of Carlo Gambino in addition to being Gambino's driver and close associate. I have never been able to substantiate the Sciandra and Gambino relation. Buddy Sciandra's father Carmelo (namesake of Carmine) was from Montedoro, like the Sciandras of the Bufalino family. It looks like Buddy's mother was an Albanese from Polizzi, Sicily, which is in Palermo province but not near Carlo Gambino's origins.
the feds have John Gambino as a member of the Gambino admin in 2010 but also said he was a capo. IS there any he was on the ruling panel and still mainted his capo spot over his crew ?
That's why I wonder if Cali was ever an official captain before he went up to the admin. Plenty of acting captains and soldiers have become admin members so wouldn't be out of place, just curious if he was ever reported as an official captain. Wouldn't be surprising if multiple crews spun out from the original Gambino crew either... pretty common when a particular group gains power.
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I'm responsible for taking my own thread off track, but here is some more on Cali:
- Cali was described by the FBI as taking over as acting captain of the D'Amico crew in 2005 when D'Amico was elevated to acting boss. So reports of Cali as an acting captain (I've seen this as early as 2003, and Johnny Scootch mentioned even earlier) would seem to be referring only to the John Gambino decina pre-2005.
- First reference to Cali as simply a captain (not specified as "acting") is 2008. This coincides timing-wise with the report I've mentioned in other threads of John Gambino being upped to a ruling panel in 2008 along with Vernace and Marino. Not sure Cali became official at that point, though, as I believe Cali was indicted as an acting captain, though it gets confusing at this point with Cali having a position in both the Gambino and D'Amico crews and how those crews had been more or less merged in the 1990s before Gambino was promoted back to captain. Were there any articles naming him an official captain before the reports started coming in of him as an admin member?
- As of the early 2000s, both Cali's Staten Island home in Todt Hill and his business Bontel were on property owned by Francesco Inzerillo, cousin of his wife and Cali's top associate in the Gambino family. Inzerillo appears to have been a buffer for Cali in virtually every aspect of his life, at least through the late 2000s.
- The LoVerdes, previously described as Cali's business partners and top legitimate associates, did constant business with Gambino capodecina Carmine Sciandra's Top Tomato stores. Sciandra was a member of Tommy Gambino's crew and Sciandra's father Gandolfo "Buddy" was described in 1960s FBI reports as a cousin of Carlo Gambino in addition to being Gambino's driver and close associate. I have never been able to substantiate the Sciandra and Gambino relation. Buddy Sciandra's father Carmelo (namesake of Carmine) was from Montedoro, like the Sciandras of the Bufalino family. It looks like Buddy's mother was an Albanese from Polizzi, Sicily, which is in Palermo province but not near Carlo Gambino's origins.
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the feds have John Gambino as a member of the Gambino admin in 2010 but also said he was a capo. IS there any he was on the ruling panel and still mainted his capo spot over his crew ?
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That's why I wonder if Cali was ever an official captain before he went up to the admin. Plenty of acting captains and soldiers have become admin members so wouldn't be out of place, just curious if he was ever reported as an official captain. Wouldn't be surprising if multiple crews spun out from the original Gambino crew either... pretty common when a particular group gains power.