by chin_gigante » Sat May 07, 2022 4:25 am
The Romanello/ Federici thing is interesting and got me thinking about something similar Anthony Arillotta talked about on Bobby Luisi's podcast. For context, when Arillotta was inducted he was reporting direct to Arthur Nigro and not formally part of the Springfield decina. He says before it was decided to kill Al Bruno, the original plan was to shelve him:
Bruno don't know I'm made. Emilio [Fusco] doesn't even know I'm made. Because we're keeping it down low. They wanna insulate me.
[...]
They were gonna knock [Bruno] down and they were gonna put Felix [Tranghese] up so he gets all the heat just like they did to that guy in Connecticut. They put him up, "Here you go buddy, you're the boss over here. Go ahead." What happened to him? He lasted, what a couple of years and he ended up getting everyone indicted. So what they do is they put you up, and they were gonna do that to Felix. But meanwhile I was gonna be insulated and I would've been the guy in the area, which I was.
Then in the comments on one of his videos, Pennisi said the following about the Federici/ Romanello crew:
We had heard Rom was handling the crew but we also knew it is a famous west-side move.
So there appears to be a pattern within the Genovese family of insulating their leaders on the decina level as well as the administration.
The Romanello/ Federici thing is interesting and got me thinking about something similar Anthony Arillotta talked about on Bobby Luisi's podcast. For context, when Arillotta was inducted he was reporting direct to Arthur Nigro and not formally part of the Springfield decina. He says before it was decided to kill Al Bruno, the original plan was to shelve him:
[Quote]Bruno don't know I'm made. Emilio [Fusco] doesn't even know I'm made. Because we're keeping it down low. They wanna insulate me.
[...]
They were gonna knock [Bruno] down and they were gonna put Felix [Tranghese] up so he gets all the heat just like they did to that guy in Connecticut. They put him up, "Here you go buddy, you're the boss over here. Go ahead." What happened to him? He lasted, what a couple of years and he ended up getting everyone indicted. So what they do is they put you up, and they were gonna do that to Felix. But meanwhile I was gonna be insulated and I would've been the guy in the area, which I was.[/quote]
Then in the comments on one of his videos, Pennisi said the following about the Federici/ Romanello crew:
[Quote]We had heard Rom was handling the crew but we also knew it is a famous west-side move.[/quote]
So there appears to be a pattern within the Genovese family of insulating their leaders on the decina level as well as the administration.