by PolackTony » Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:58 pm
Jimmy Tripodi was a captain in the Pittsburgh outfit but functioned as the racket boss of Steubenville. I’d think it would be understandable that a CI would seem him as his own “boss”, as he was presumably given a lot of de facto autonomy and leeway to run his territory, but within the formal mafia system he was a capodecina.
I don’t know this for a fact but I’ve wondered if Tripodi could’ve been the head of a local successor group to the Calabrian Camorra, in the way that Dom Mallamo was in Youngstown, while also being an LCN member (I also suspect that a similar arrangement may have persisted in Kenosha, WI). If so, it’s possible that Tripodi could have had guys who weren’t made into the mafia but answered to him within the local group. On one level, they then would’ve been “LCN associates” on record with a member, but on another level Tripodi would’ve been their “boss”, apart from his rank within the Pittsburgh mob.
Jimmy Tripodi was a captain in the Pittsburgh outfit but functioned as the racket boss of Steubenville. I’d think it would be understandable that a CI would seem him as his own “boss”, as he was presumably given a lot of de facto autonomy and leeway to run his territory, but within the formal mafia system he was a capodecina.
I don’t know this for a fact but I’ve wondered if Tripodi could’ve been the head of a local successor group to the Calabrian Camorra, in the way that Dom Mallamo was in Youngstown, while also being an LCN member (I also suspect that a similar arrangement may have persisted in Kenosha, WI). If so, it’s possible that Tripodi could have had guys who weren’t made into the mafia but answered to him within the local group. On one level, they then would’ve been “LCN associates” on record with a member, but on another level Tripodi would’ve been their “boss”, apart from his rank within the Pittsburgh mob.