by JoelTurner » Sun May 15, 2022 11:22 am
Wiseguy wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 8:11 am
johnny_scootch wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 5:03 am
First thing is Tieri being from another family wouldn’t just be able to ‘take over’ Caponigro’s ‘rackets’ becAuse it doesn’t work that wAy. All that would go to the Philly family but if I recall correctly years prior to all that Tieri and Caponigro had a beef over a loansharking operation that led to a sit down that was won by Caponigro. Losing that sit down and the loansharking operation is what fueled Tieri to eventually double cross Caponigro.
According to Leonetti, here were three reasons Tieri, Manna, and Chin wanted Bruno dead and manipulated Caponigro. First, with Bruno dead, Philadelphia's Commission vote goes to them, not the Gambinos. Second, Scarfo would gain control of HEREU Local 54, which would benefit them. And third, they could take over Caponigro's rackets. However it's supposed to work, I've never seen anything to suggest it didn't go down that way.
So when Caponigro is talking to Funzi Tieri about killing Ange, he thinks he’s talking to the boss, because everyone thought that Tieri was the boss, but he wasn’t. The Chin was.
So Tieri strokes Caponigro along and all the while, Tieri, the Chin, and Bobby Manna are manipulating the whole thing. They want Ange dead so that my uncle gets the union, which benefits them. They also want Ange dead so that Philadelphia’s Commission vote now goes with the Genovese and not the Gambinos, which benefits them, and on top of it, they want Caponigro dead so they can take his gambling and loan sharking operation, which is worth several million, which also benefits them.
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First thing is Tieri being from another family wouldn’t just be able to ‘take over’ Caponigro’s ‘rackets’ becAuse it doesn’t work that wAy. All that would go to the Philly family but if I recall correctly years prior to all that Tieri and Caponigro had a beef over a loansharking operation that led to a sit down that was won by Caponigro. Losing that sit down and the loansharking operation is what fueled Tieri to eventually double cross Caponigro.
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According to Leonetti, here were three reasons Tieri, Manna, and Chin wanted Bruno dead and manipulated Caponigro. First, with Bruno dead, Philadelphia's Commission vote goes to them, not the Gambinos. Second, Scarfo would gain control of HEREU Local 54, which would benefit them. And third, they could take over Caponigro's rackets. However it's supposed to work, I've never seen anything to suggest it didn't go down that way.
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So when Caponigro is talking to Funzi Tieri about killing Ange, he thinks he’s talking to the boss, because everyone thought that Tieri was the boss, but he wasn’t. The Chin was.
So Tieri strokes Caponigro along and all the while, Tieri, the Chin, and Bobby Manna are manipulating the whole thing. They want Ange dead so that my uncle gets the union, which benefits them. They also want Ange dead so that Philadelphia’s Commission vote now goes with the Genovese and not the Gambinos, which benefits them, and on top of it, they want Caponigro dead so they can take his gambling and loan sharking operation, which is worth several million, which also benefits them.
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This was the exact quote.