THE BLACK HAND FORUM

She noted that his father Sylvester's mob handle stemmed from the illegal gambling business he ran and that he had to pay shadowy Bronx mobsters like Vincent Basciano, with the "colorful name, Vinny Gorgeous" to succeed. So if this guy was an associate of Basciano, wonder who he kicked up ...

Has Jiggs been online lately. Used to like his posts, gave a in depth street view of harlem in 50s 60s 70s. Hope he's OK.

What was the back story with Savino. Who was he around. Whats the story of the bodies in his warehouse

Was Rastelli originally a bonnano loyalist. Did he change sides during the war. Seems a pretty bad boss. Maybe the bonnanos would have been in better shape if they had all backed Galante.

It seems strange that Anastasia knew about this plot against him but seemingly didn't make a move against Lucchese. Lucchese has always intrigued me, seems like a very underrated boss. Maybe he was the main kingmaker in New York for a long time. Wonder what happened to the 2 traitors in his family a...

Sorry, for Costello to get rid of Genovese

I've not read about anastasia and Costellos plot against Lucchese before now, who were the Lucchese underlings involved and what happened to them. If it was Genovese who exposed the plot this would explain the bad blood, but also wouldn't this betrayal give Costello a valid excuse to have got rid of...

Who is the Joseph Cahill that is name as a conspirator/shooter in Alfredo Santantonios version of events

I've always wondered about Persico and Scarpa. Can't see how Persico wouldn't have had at least suspicion about Scapa. Maybe Persico did know, but turned a blind eye as Scapa kept his enemies down. Maybe it was all a play by law enforcement to keep the family in constant turmoil.

Probably no coincidence that when Lucchese died in 67, Gambino stepped back from running his family and had castellano running things.

After reading all the information on this site, I just dont buy that Gambino was the king maker. All the books used to state as fact that Gambino picked Colombo as boss of that family and Funzi as boss of the Genovese. Now i think we can rule out any influence he had on the Genovese and that they so...

What role did Tommy Lucchese play in all of this. He was Gambinos key ally on the commission. After discovering on here Gambino wasn't officially named Head of the family until a couple of years after Anastasia was killed, he probably needed Lucchese's influence to be named top dog. Seems to me Lucc...

That's something jiggs said, basically any Italian dealing junk in the 70s got lumped in the purple gang. Was there ever any cases made against the so called purple gang. Or were there just a whole group of junk busts and murders attributed to the purple gang by lazy journalists

When Prisco states " he's one of the guys I put in" is he referring to Danny Leo. Did them two come up together or were they in different crews

could this mean it was a power move on the profacis by both the Genovese and Gambino, Genovese backing gallos and Gambino backing Colombo.