THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Curious as to the technicalities of protocol. How can one boss shelve another? There's hardly a commission anymore. Why couldn't Joey just say F U to Mannino? Theoretically, it would depend on whether there was appetite within the family to keep its boss in place. Michael DiLeonardo discussed how a...

It's an okay read but the topic I was hoping to see covered (Tranghese as Springfield's captain) is pretty much non-existent. Thought you'd find this interesting. It's from Tranghese's sentencing memorandum. IMG_4629.jpeg I'm interested in whether Tranghese ever actually became the captain official...

His connection to the Ianniello crew confused me and is why he was not included, thanks for that. As a proposed associate would he formally be with Matty or Springfield? Officially an Ianniello associate I would say, especially considering O'Nofrio later becomes acting captain for Conrad. In anothe...

Arillotta said this on the now-defunct Johnny and Gene Show when they brought him, Bobby Luisi, and Paul Tanso on the same episode: They actually wanted us to straighten out a couple of guys in our area because they didn’t want to do it in New York so they wanted us to actually do the straightening ...

Good work. Couple of thoughts that spring to mind: - In one of his interviews (believe it may have been one of his interviews with Scott), Arillotta says he never actually registered the Geas brothers as associates. So while they were absolutely with him operationally, they were never put on record ...

Would be interesting if Vincenzo Morena ever wrote a book as (as far as I can recall) the only Canada-based member to flip.

I'd be interested in reading a commission case book if it was looking primarily at all the taped conversations.

I think a book re-evaluating 'Murder Inc' and doing some myth busting would be genuinely interesting.

That got out of hand. If anyone wants to keep at it go to the Graveyard section (where the argument now resides). I'm tired of the same argument playing out and descending into insults in every other thread.

Will be interesting to see how the Reprisals investigation plays out

Perplexing why Ferrara's cooperation didn't come up in his sentencing

We can follow DeCarlo through to Sally Lombardi, but as far as I'm aware we don't know what happened to that crew after Lombardi's conviction. I’m curious, where does the idea that Sally Lombardi inherited DeCarlo’s crew come from? I would say that Boiardo’s crew absorbed them By the time he passed...

I second that about OCShortz. He recently contacted me to ask permission before making his video about an Angelo Prisco 302 I shared, and he credited the forum in the video as well. On that note, I am less precious about using information from files or documents. I only post a document in the FBI Fi...

So in terms of NJ Genovese regimes, we can trace Boiardo through to DeVita, and Gene Catena through to Gatto/Bruschi/Palumbo. We can follow DeCarlo through to Sally Lombardi, but as far as I'm aware we don't know what happened to that crew after Lombardi's conviction. Fiumara possibly splits off fro...

4.png This snippet also describes Palumbo’s affiliation prior to the case, noting that he took over Jimmy Napoli’s ‘crew’ in 1992: 6.png I’m not sure however whether this strictly means that Palumbo was promoted to captain or acting captain in the 1990s. He was indicted as an associate along with D...

I wasn't aware that Joseph Gatto was at one time on the shelf. That’s a great find. It clears up some of the confusion about Gatto’s rank after his release from prison: Gatto’s rank in the Genovese crime family was not clear Wednesday night. In May, the State Commission of Investigation claimed he ...