B. wrote:My guess with the Genovese family is that their leadership is like a venn diagram rather than a pyramid. Certain captains / areas / operations report to a certain guy, and he more or less has full authority over them, but his authority as a whole overlaps with the authority of a couple other guys in similar positions. I still believe at the center of that venn diagram there is one person, though.
It seems like there has been a ruling panel of one kind or another in place ever since Cirillo reportedly created one back in the late 1990's. At the same time, there also seems to have been one guy who would be selected from this panel to be the acting boss and handle the day-to-day responsibilities of that position. The default (for lack of a better word) part of the family that most of these guys have come from have tended to be the same crew - Bellomo, Muscarella, Serpico, DeLuca, Nigro.
May 1990 - Barney Bellomo made acting boss after Vincent Gigante is indicted in the Widows case.
June 1996 - Barney Bellomo indicted. Dominick Cirillo becomes acting boss.
May 1998 - Dominick Cirillo steps down after a heart attack. Frank Serpico follows as acting boss but steps down some time between then and April 2001 when he's indicted as the "former" acting boss. Whenever that was, apparently Ernie Muscarella followed as acting boss.
January 2002 - Ernie Muscarella indicted as acting boss.
Artie Nigro was reported to have been the acting boss in November 2003 so he probably succeeded Muscarella.
If what former FBI agent Garcia said was correct, Pasquale DeLuca was probably acting boss at some point during this time, since it would fall within the December 2002 - March 2005 time frame of Garcia's undercover work; though it's not clear for how long since we don't know exactly when Dominick Cirillo resumed his the role after he recovered.
April 2005 - Dominick Cirillo indicted as acting boss.
July 2005 - Matthew Ianniello indicted as "an" acting boss, as opposed to "the" acting boss. This is wording is probably intentional by the feds, which suggests he was on the ruling panel.
December 2006 - Danny Leo identified as acting boss (from his previous position on the ruling panel) and indicted as such in May 2007.
June 2009 - NY Daily News article identifies Benny Mangano (Oct 2006), Ernie Muscarella (Jan 2008), Barney Bellomo Dec 2008), and Larry Dentico (May 2009) on a "rotating panel" of recently released senior members running the family.
September 2009 - NY Times article identifies Tino Fiumara as being on a "three man panel" running the family.
February 2010 - Artie Nigro indicted as the "former" acting boss.
February 2014 - Genovese family reported to likely be using a rotating panel of leaders.
[quote="B."]My guess with the Genovese family is that their leadership is like a venn diagram rather than a pyramid. Certain captains / areas / operations report to a certain guy, and he more or less has full authority over them, but his authority as a whole overlaps with the authority of a couple other guys in similar positions. I still believe at the center of that venn diagram there is one person, though.[/quote]
It seems like there has been a ruling panel of one kind or another in place ever since Cirillo reportedly created one back in the late 1990's. At the same time, there also seems to have been one guy who would be selected from this panel to be the acting boss and handle the day-to-day responsibilities of that position. The default (for lack of a better word) part of the family that most of these guys have come from have tended to be the same crew - Bellomo, Muscarella, Serpico, DeLuca, Nigro.
[b]May 1990[/b] - Barney Bellomo made acting boss after Vincent Gigante is indicted in the Widows case.
[b]June 1996[/b] - Barney Bellomo indicted. Dominick Cirillo becomes acting boss.
[b]May 1998[/b] - Dominick Cirillo steps down after a heart attack. Frank Serpico follows as acting boss but steps down some time between then and April 2001 when he's indicted as the "former" acting boss. Whenever that was, apparently Ernie Muscarella followed as acting boss.
[b]January 2002[/b] - Ernie Muscarella indicted as acting boss.
[i]Artie Nigro was reported to have been the acting boss in November 2003 so he probably succeeded Muscarella.
If what former FBI agent Garcia said was correct, Pasquale DeLuca was probably acting boss at some point during this time, since it would fall within the December 2002 - March 2005 time frame of Garcia's undercover work; though it's not clear for how long since we don't know exactly when Dominick Cirillo resumed his the role after he recovered.[/i]
[b]April 2005[/b] - Dominick Cirillo indicted as acting boss.
[b]July 2005[/b] - Matthew Ianniello indicted as "an" acting boss, as opposed to "the" acting boss. This is wording is probably intentional by the feds, which suggests he was on the ruling panel.
[b]December 2006[/b] - Danny Leo identified as acting boss (from his previous position on the ruling panel) and indicted as such in May 2007.
[b]June 2009[/b] - NY Daily News article identifies Benny Mangano (Oct 2006), Ernie Muscarella (Jan 2008), Barney Bellomo Dec 2008), and Larry Dentico (May 2009) on a "rotating panel" of recently released senior members running the family.
[b]September 2009[/b] - NY Times article identifies Tino Fiumara as being on a "three man panel" running the family.
[b]February 2010[/b] - Artie Nigro indicted as the "former" acting boss.
[b]February 2014[/b] - Genovese family reported to likely be using a rotating panel of leaders.