by Wiseguy » Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:55 pm
SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:22 pm
I think we could be getting off track here about Esposito being in charge or a member of a Jersey crew.
Esposito was found with a list of guys from Jersey.
Considering we dont know the purpos or detail of that list there could be an easy explanation. We know that lists are
circulated between families and crews to vet potential members. We also know that Esposito took over Johnny Sausages Barbato's unions. Johnny Sausage's crews are Brooklyn and Staten Island and possibly elsewhere. Now Esposito himself lives in Manhatten.
It could therfor be likely that as Esposito has taken over Barbato's unions, he's taken over his decina as well and the list of Jersey guys was a list circulated between the capo's to vet potential membership. Esposito could even be a Capo of a Manhatten crew with the same scenario a possiblilty.
Another possibility taking into consideration DiLeonardo's comments recently about the consig being a liason with other families is that he could have that list basis holding that position.
A point to hesitate about Esposito holding too high a position in the family is that the Feds usually carpet bomb indictments with the position if they arrest a ranking member. That they havent done so here is cause for interest. Either they dont actually know or he's simply a powerful soldier and they want to leave out the term 'soldier' as 'high ranking/influential member' has much better cache.
About a week ago, I read (some report I think, I didn't think to keep it but am trying to find it) that said soldier Frank Giovinco "answered to John Barbato" and had been originally "groomed by Benny Eggs Mangano." Barbato and Mangano both originally came from Vincent Gigante's Greenwich Village crew, if I'm not mistaken. And, of course, Giovinco and Gigante's son Vincent Esposito were involved in the waste hauling rackets before the big bust in the 1990's.
In 2012, you have Genovese soldier John Fazio Sr. and John Fazio Jr., both officials of UFCW Local 348-S, indicted. Evidence included surveillance of regular "face-to-face" meetings between Fazio Jr. and Genovese captain John Barbato.
In 2018, Vincent Esposito (identified as an "influential and high-ranking member") and Giovinco are among several Genovese members and associates charged in an indictment involving UFCW Locals 1D and 2D. Vincent Fyfe, president of Local 2D and grandson of Vincent Gigante and nephew of Esposito, was originally a target of the investigation before cooperating. That year, Gangland News reported Fyfe and John Fazio Jr. were close friends, and both of them were also associates of John Barbato.
Given all the interconnections here, it all seems to have been the Barbato crew. He'll be 88 this year, which is getting up there even for that family. Seems possible Esposito (like Giovinco apparently) is at least a member of that crew; perhaps is/was acting captain. Just my guess.
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I think we could be getting off track here about Esposito being in charge or a member of a Jersey crew.
Esposito was found with a list of guys from Jersey.
Considering we dont know the purpos or detail of that list there could be an easy explanation. We know that lists are [i]circulated[/i] between families and crews to vet potential members. We also know that Esposito took over Johnny Sausages Barbato's unions. Johnny Sausage's crews are Brooklyn and Staten Island and possibly elsewhere. Now Esposito himself lives in Manhatten.
It could therfor be likely that as Esposito has taken over Barbato's unions, he's taken over his decina as well and the list of Jersey guys was a list circulated between the capo's to vet potential membership. Esposito could even be a Capo of a Manhatten crew with the same scenario a possiblilty.
Another possibility taking into consideration DiLeonardo's comments recently about the consig being a liason with other families is that he could have that list basis holding that position.
A point to hesitate about Esposito holding too high a position in the family is that the Feds usually carpet bomb indictments with the position if they arrest a ranking member. That they havent done so here is cause for interest. Either they dont actually know or he's simply a powerful soldier and they want to leave out the term 'soldier' as 'high ranking/influential member' has much better cache.
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About a week ago, I read (some report I think, I didn't think to keep it but am trying to find it) that said soldier Frank Giovinco "answered to John Barbato" and had been originally "groomed by Benny Eggs Mangano." Barbato and Mangano both originally came from Vincent Gigante's Greenwich Village crew, if I'm not mistaken. And, of course, Giovinco and Gigante's son Vincent Esposito were involved in the waste hauling rackets before the big bust in the 1990's.
In 2012, you have Genovese soldier John Fazio Sr. and John Fazio Jr., both officials of UFCW Local 348-S, indicted. Evidence included surveillance of regular "face-to-face" meetings between Fazio Jr. and Genovese captain John Barbato.
In 2018, Vincent Esposito (identified as an "influential and high-ranking member") and Giovinco are among several Genovese members and associates charged in an indictment involving UFCW Locals 1D and 2D. Vincent Fyfe, president of Local 2D and grandson of Vincent Gigante and nephew of Esposito, was originally a target of the investigation before cooperating. That year, Gangland News reported Fyfe and John Fazio Jr. were close friends, and both of them were also associates of John Barbato.
Given all the interconnections here, it all seems to have been the Barbato crew. He'll be 88 this year, which is getting up there even for that family. Seems possible Esposito (like Giovinco apparently) is at least a member of that crew; perhaps is/was acting captain. Just my guess.