THE BLACK HAND FORUM

JoeNGallo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:33 pm New post on DeCavalcante Family surveillance in 1979

https://lcnbios.blogspot.com/2025/04/ca ... -1979.html

B. wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:01 am Makes sense he'd be visiting his sister. In terms of other possible connections, wasn't LA captain Polizzi's family from San Giuseppe Jato? Polizzi was from Buffalo originally but it brings to mind Riela's close friend/relative Frank Polizzi.

SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 10:53 am I'm on the fence if Newark is an actual place. 80% sure it's just made up.

Jerseys version of Gotham.

B. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 7:39 pm Intriguing post about Tony Riela flying to Los Angeles two days before the Carmine Galante murder then traveling to Springfield the day after Galante's murder where Riela met with Anthony Zito and other Springfield figures: https://lcnbios.blogspot.com/2025/04/bo ... -1979.html

He also drove to Chicago before flying back to Newark.

B. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:48 pm Maybe Galante spoke on his behalf to get his name cleared since it sounds like Sonny Franzese was trying to blackball him. There have been examples of members from other Families sponsoring someone into a different group (John Misuraca with San Jose for example) but I doubt this took place in 1970s NYC, especially with Galante.

Great write-up. Always found it interesting Franzese was such a rising star in the 1970s then faded in the 1980s before his death.

johnny_scootch wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 12:45 pm

PolackTony wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:10 am One source also said that Carmine Galante “sponsored Tutti Franzese of the Colombo Crime Family with the approval of Joseph Brancato”. I don’t know if this claim was previously discussed on the board. As I don’t know who the source is, I’m not sure how to weigh the claim. Could be just confusion on the part of the CI, or it could be that Galante was in fact involved in some way with Carmine Franzese’s induction. Clearly the source was not Scarpa, or JD would have stated this, so I have no idea if the source was a made guy in the position to actually know anything of substance about Franzese’s induction.

I highly doubt this informant was made, seems to me like this person was misinterpreting and confusing different things he was hearing.

I thought it was funny that all those Colombo guys had to attend Carmine's daughters wedding on one day and be at the same exact location for Lenny Dello's daughters wedding the very next day and then here comes Rocco Miraglia's daughter getting married the very next weekend!