by B. » Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:49 pm
Chris Christie wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 11:43 am
I wonder what Felix Bocchino's rank was prior to his murder, by all accounts seems he had some rank.
There was one article after his death that implied he was the number two man in the organization, something along those lines. Most info talks about him handling the street rackets for Stanfa early on, but it's not clear if he was going around like an enforcer or simply re-organizing everything on a leadership level, or both. Like Natale says on the LCNBios excerpt, the underboss is the "street boss" so it's possible Bocchino's activities fit that description. Wouldn't surprise me if he was Stanfa's first underboss since Ciancaglini Jr. wasn't made/in place yet. From conversations recorded with Stanfa and Piccolo, it sounds like they were planning the full administration even before Stanfa became boss, as Sparacio suggested a different administration which upset Stanfa who had his own ideas for the administration. Since Stanfa and Piccolo look to have been in place around the same time, it seems likely they would have also filled the underboss position unless the plan from the beginning was to leave the underboss spot open, then Ciancaglini and immediately promote him kind of like Piccolo had planned to do previously with Fresolone as captain. Fresolone was also of the opinion that he was going to be promoted to underboss when Martirano died but it was all pretty vague.
[quote="Chris Christie" post_id=91807 time=1539456182 user_id=69]
I wonder what Felix Bocchino's rank was prior to his murder, by all accounts seems he had some rank.
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There was one article after his death that implied he was the number two man in the organization, something along those lines. Most info talks about him handling the street rackets for Stanfa early on, but it's not clear if he was going around like an enforcer or simply re-organizing everything on a leadership level, or both. Like Natale says on the LCNBios excerpt, the underboss is the "street boss" so it's possible Bocchino's activities fit that description. Wouldn't surprise me if he was Stanfa's first underboss since Ciancaglini Jr. wasn't made/in place yet. From conversations recorded with Stanfa and Piccolo, it sounds like they were planning the full administration even before Stanfa became boss, as Sparacio suggested a different administration which upset Stanfa who had his own ideas for the administration. Since Stanfa and Piccolo look to have been in place around the same time, it seems likely they would have also filled the underboss position unless the plan from the beginning was to leave the underboss spot open, then Ciancaglini and immediately promote him kind of like Piccolo had planned to do previously with Fresolone as captain. Fresolone was also of the opinion that he was going to be promoted to underboss when Martirano died but it was all pretty vague.