by eboli » Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:57 am
PolackTony wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:29 pm
Any further info on this "combaneesh"? I think I've only seen it mentioned before once and didn't understand it to specifically be a Mainlander thing. Did this come up in a wiretap, or did an informant actually shed light on it?
Were the DelDucas and Toddo Marino part of this "Combaneesh" as well, as I'd suspect? If so, then DelDuca's longstanding connection to Chicago going back to Prohibition becomes all the more interesting.
It was some kind of Americanized Camorra-type organization that was likely created by Camorra leftovers trying to consolidate their power in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Vito was apparently 'sneaked in' the organization in 1923, so this was before Cosa Nostra started aggressively recruiting non-Sicilians in the mid to late 1920s. There's no evidence, but what I think happened is that a powerful 'combaneesh' member was inducted in LCN and began sponsoring his friends from the 'combaneesh' into the bigger organization.
B. wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:51 pm
In addition to his close relationship to the Calabrian Frank Ianni in Dallas, an FBI report from 1964 states that Steubenville, Ohio, mafia figure James Tripodi was in periodic contact with Rocco Pellegrino.
Unsurprisingly, Rocco Pellegrino also had interests in Connecticut. Vito Sabia of Stamford was identified as a partner in a Connecticut numbers business with Rocco Pellegrino. The FBI carried Sabia as a "suspected member" of the Genovese family but I haven't seen any confirmation of membership.
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The Pellegrino crew looks to have covered the following territory, maybe more:
White Plains / Mount Vernon / Westchester County
The Bronx
Lower East Side / Manhattan
South Brooklyn
Stamford / Connecticut
Florida
Gambling interests in Texas and close ties to Steubenville, Ohio.
Served as liaison to Dallas family, who were represented on the Commission by the Genovese family by the late 1950s. Pellegrino's sons Peter and Carmine and crew member Michele Clemente served as go-betweens for the Dallas family and NYC.
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Funny how such an influential longtime figure can fly under the radar. Obviously we all know about him on here, but he should be mentioned alongside all of the well-known "household" names from that era of the Genovese family yet isn't. Kind of the Giuseppe Traina of the Genovese family.
It seems like Rocco Pellegrino's crew expansion was a gradual one. He started in White Plains, expanded in Westchester Country, and by the early 1930s he had a firm footing in The Bronx. By the mid-1940s he was operating in Manhattan. In the 1950s Mogavero was running Pellegrino's drug smuggling network because he was his number one guy and main controller on 'the horn' - that's the term they used for the piers which extended from the lower West Side around the southern tip of Manhattan to the lower East Side piers.
It's possible that the Pellegrino crew absorbed some of the former DelDucca Crew's operations when Mogavero was still acting caporegime for Rocco, and at a later date the Lower Manhattan and South Brooklyn operations of the Pellegrino Crew were splintered off to create a new regime under Mogavero. By the late 1960s, the feds had Magovero and Pellegrino as caporegimes simultaneously.
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Any further info on this "combaneesh"? I think I've only seen it mentioned before once and didn't understand it to specifically be a Mainlander thing. Did this come up in a wiretap, or did an informant actually shed light on it?
Were the DelDucas and Toddo Marino part of this "Combaneesh" as well, as I'd suspect? If so, then DelDuca's longstanding connection to Chicago going back to Prohibition becomes all the more interesting.
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It was some kind of Americanized Camorra-type organization that was likely created by Camorra leftovers trying to consolidate their power in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Vito was apparently 'sneaked in' the organization in 1923, so this was before Cosa Nostra started aggressively recruiting non-Sicilians in the mid to late 1920s. There's no evidence, but what I think happened is that a powerful 'combaneesh' member was inducted in LCN and began sponsoring his friends from the 'combaneesh' into the bigger organization.
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In addition to his close relationship to the Calabrian Frank Ianni in Dallas, an FBI report from 1964 states that Steubenville, Ohio, mafia figure James Tripodi was in periodic contact with Rocco Pellegrino.
Unsurprisingly, Rocco Pellegrino also had interests in Connecticut. Vito Sabia of Stamford was identified as a partner in a Connecticut numbers business with Rocco Pellegrino. The FBI carried Sabia as a "suspected member" of the Genovese family but I haven't seen any confirmation of membership.
--
The Pellegrino crew looks to have covered the following territory, maybe more:
White Plains / Mount Vernon / Westchester County
The Bronx
Lower East Side / Manhattan
South Brooklyn
Stamford / Connecticut
Florida
Gambling interests in Texas and close ties to Steubenville, Ohio.
Served as liaison to Dallas family, who were represented on the Commission by the Genovese family by the late 1950s. Pellegrino's sons Peter and Carmine and crew member Michele Clemente served as go-betweens for the Dallas family and NYC.
--
Funny how such an influential longtime figure can fly under the radar. Obviously we all know about him on here, but he should be mentioned alongside all of the well-known "household" names from that era of the Genovese family yet isn't. Kind of the Giuseppe Traina of the Genovese family.
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It seems like Rocco Pellegrino's crew expansion was a gradual one. He started in White Plains, expanded in Westchester Country, and by the early 1930s he had a firm footing in The Bronx. By the mid-1940s he was operating in Manhattan. In the 1950s Mogavero was running Pellegrino's drug smuggling network because he was his number one guy and main controller on 'the horn' - that's the term they used for the piers which extended from the lower West Side around the southern tip of Manhattan to the lower East Side piers.
It's possible that the Pellegrino crew absorbed some of the former DelDucca Crew's operations when Mogavero was still acting caporegime for Rocco, and at a later date the Lower Manhattan and South Brooklyn operations of the Pellegrino Crew were splintered off to create a new regime under Mogavero. By the late 1960s, the feds had Magovero and Pellegrino as caporegimes simultaneously.
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