THE BLACK HAND FORUM

sdeitche wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 3:06 am Interesting that they all live in Dubai.

The UAE doesn't have an extradition treaty with Ireland I believe !!

Obviously the Westside still have considerable influence over the rackets especially in New Jersey but have the Gambino's lost all their rackets in brooklyn and staten Island? If so how come they managed to lose them whilst the Westside kept a lot of theirs ?

are any of the families still involved in the garbage racket or have the feds forced them out like they did with other rackets (garment/fulton etc) ?

Villain wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 11:27 am

Frank wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 10:31 am Its been written that Lucchese was the most powerful and or influential NY Boss in that time period.

For what its worth...the Outfit also respected him a lot

Interesting villain where does this info come from ?

don-shunter wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 7:17 am I wonder if any of the older capos/members opposed Joe's ascension or if they were made promises of more autonomy with their crews if they accepted him as boss?

Some deal must have been done - if my memory serves me right there was no murders around the time of any of the big players...

Does Scarpa's 302's from the period shine any light on how Gambino achieved it ?!

Colombo was supposed to have been appointed to boss of the then profaci family after alerting Gambino to the hit put on him and other commission members. I thought it was protocol for captains to vote in a boss similar to the sham vote for Gotti after he hit Castellano. So how did this go down ? Did...

Why was he clipped ? It was supposed to be scarpa behind it wasnt it ?

Trigger Mike's crew ??

Which where the 1st unions infiltrated by organized crime ?

It's amazing how many old timers had rape charges/convictions on their rapsheets !!

No gangland news this week fellas?

Was Louis Capone made?

Who was in the Provenzano faction? I know MMD and Brusca where with Bagarella...

Does anyone know whether he was made - he was believed to be close to both Anastasia and Adonis! If he was what family was he made into?