THE BLACK HAND FORUM

New York Daily News: ‘The nation's most powerful mob clan already rocked by a series of prosecutions that jailed its leadership suffered another blow last week when its street boss was felled by a massive heart attack. Reputed Genovese family mobster Dominic (Quiet Dom) Cirillo, a 69-year-old former...

New York Times: ‘State and Federal investigators say Mr. Gigante appointed Mr. [Dominick] Cirillo as the family's acting boss last year, pending the outcome of his Federal trial, and has sanctioned Mr. Cirillo's takeover of the top spot.’ (Selwyn Raab, 15 September 1997). ‘Based on intelligence glea...

New York: ‘The Genovese clan, long considered the Ivy League of organized crime, is the only family whose heir apparent and official boss seem to be one and the same. Vincent “Chin” Gigante took over around 1982. He’s been in federal prison since 1997. The Oddfather, whose crazy-man strolls in Green...

The Wall Street Journal: ‘As the ranks of organized-crime investigators decreased, the mafia adapted to law enforcement's investigative techniques. Unlike the in-your-face approach that media mob star John Gotti adopted in the 1980s, today's mafia has reverted to its roots and tried to become as inv...

U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: ‘PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that an Acting Boss of the Genovese Organised Crime Family, DANIEL LEO, a/k/a “The Lion,” and his nephew and primary lieutenant, JOSEPH LEO, pleaded guil...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA against DOMINICK CIRILLO, also known as “Quiet Dom,” LAWRENCE DENTICO, also known as “Little Larry,” JOHN BARBATO, also known as “Johnny Sausage,” and ANTHONY ANTICO, also known as “Tico”: ‘In 1997, Gigante was convicted of racketeering and related offenses and began serving...

State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation, The Changing Face of Organised Crime in New Jersey: A Status Report: ‘Law enforcement officials believe that the top hierarchy of the Genovese family has adopted a less formally structured organization than it had in the past. The family is being mana...

Masslive.com: ‘[John] Bologna continued to feed the FBI about new bosses and underbosses in the Gambino and Genovese crime families, plus a shady group of “Albanians” in 2005 and 2006. Danny Leo became the new Genovese boss in 2006, according to Bologna, with Mario Gigante as his acting underboss.’ ...

Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family:

Jack Garcia identifies Pasquale ‘Scop’ DeLuca as ‘acting street boss’ of the Genoveses, during his three years of undercover work as an associate of the Gambino family. (2008, p.256).

CNN.com: ‘Twenty people, including reputed members of the Genovese organized crime family, have been arrested and charged with wide-ranging racketeering counts, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan announced Thursday. Among the arrested were Matthew Ianniello, an acting Genovese family boss nicknamed “Mat...

Baltimore Sun: ‘Still, hours of FBI tapes leave little question that Chin Gigante is actively engaged as head of the highly disciplined mob clan. In an Oct. 18 chat at the Manhattan Cafe on the upper East Side, for example, Genovese capo Alan “Baldie” Longo was heard openly discussing the renewed st...

Creating this thread to gather all sources I have on the Genovese administration over the past 20 years. Members I've seen listed as holding leadership positions are: John 'Johnny Sausage' Barbato Liborio 'Barney' Bellomo Dominick 'Quiet Dom' Cirillo Pasquale 'Scop' DeLuca Lawrence 'Larry Fab' Denti...

Chucky wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:38 pm That was the party at the Saloon '09, a ton of guys went to that, way more than what's listed.

Do you have any names that jump out as being absent from the list I posted? Thanks

Would these guys, from time to time, still come together as a family? You know, all the crews and made men at a banquet or something, maybe at Christmas? Like you saw in The Sopranos?? Or are these days over for good and they only interact with each other in small groups or through intermediaries l...

Based on the available information I would say that Narducci and Pungitore likely are doing their own things like Riccobene did under Bruno Riccobene was a Bruno loyalist, though. Based on what GA's been reporting, I think the situation is the Scarfo era guys don't like Joey Merlino and want nothin...