by B. » Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:39 pm
Chris Christie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:43 am
Bosses, that's tough. San Francisco?
Underbosses more than once? Sonny Franzese, in the 60's and then in the 2000's. There's gotta be more.
I suspect there's alot of members who do not want the added responsibility. We always hear about how the best bosses are independently wealthy before gaining the position, I guess that is true when compared to a Natale or the Persicos who viewed their groups as an extension of themselves and a way to line their pockets. Junior Perisco became the boss that his younger self was fighting against.
SF is a great point. The FBI thought Lanza stepped down in the early 1970s and that former boss Anthony Lima became boss again, but it later came out that Lanza was still the official boss. Lima was trying to become boss again, though, so he at least thought it was possible. It makes you wonder with a family like that... if a family is dwindling and there are few candidates, is someone going to say, "You can't be boss again"? If there was ever a rule about that, it seems like would have been ignored out of necessity as time went on though I still don't know of any concrete examples.
Was Franzese the underboss in the 1960s? I'd have to comb through the info, but I think it went Magliocco->Misuraca->Mineo. I can't remember who was there after Mineo and before Abbatemarco, if anyone.
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Bosses, that's tough. San Francisco?
Underbosses more than once? Sonny Franzese, in the 60's and then in the 2000's. There's gotta be more.
I suspect there's alot of members who do not want the added responsibility. We always hear about how the best bosses are independently wealthy before gaining the position, I guess that is true when compared to a Natale or the Persicos who viewed their groups as an extension of themselves and a way to line their pockets. Junior Perisco became the boss that his younger self was fighting against.
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SF is a great point. The FBI thought Lanza stepped down in the early 1970s and that former boss Anthony Lima became boss again, but it later came out that Lanza was still the official boss. Lima was trying to become boss again, though, so he at least thought it was possible. It makes you wonder with a family like that... if a family is dwindling and there are few candidates, is someone going to say, "You can't be boss again"? If there was ever a rule about that, it seems like would have been ignored out of necessity as time went on though I still don't know of any concrete examples.
Was Franzese the underboss in the 1960s? I'd have to comb through the info, but I think it went Magliocco->Misuraca->Mineo. I can't remember who was there after Mineo and before Abbatemarco, if anyone.