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As for Giardina, sources say the Gambinos have placed him in the crew of acting capo Joseph Traina, 60, who like his late father Mario, a family skipper for both Big Paul Castellano and John Gotti, has managed to avoid any serious troubles with the law. That's interesting. Assuming he took over for...

Capeci currently has Joseph Traina, son of Mario Traina, as a Gambino acting captain

A number of these transcripts are available but not all it seems FOIA is the way to proceed in order to gain these transcripts? I’m not sure as to why we don’t have access to the DeCavalcante tapes in it’s entirety You can find the DeCarlo transcripts here: https://archive.org/details/WilliamRegaDe...

OmarSantista wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 7:14 pm Without conspiracy or speculation are there any definitive cases where a member got killed for not coming in.

Joe Sodano

Would you think part of the reason was that the Camorra may be just a collection of individual clans with no defined ties or rules binding them to each other? The (now defunct) camorra honoured society did have elaborate defined rules and structures, and the cells of this organisation that emerged ...

That's one of the issues with this "what does New York think of 'Joey' doing a podcast?" stuff. It's always been complicated politically. Agree with this. The Natale/Merlino faction's political connections to other families are often overlooked because they don't fit clearly with the esta...

Yeah, Big Joe is Joseph R Perna, son of Michael Perna. Little Joe is Joseph M Perna, son of Ralph Perna and older brother of John Perna. Little Joe is the guy in the photograph from the Taccetta hearing. Big Joe is the guy in the Gang Land photograph. Big Joe is the guy Pennisi says is the current o...

OcSleeper wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:47 am What Joe Perna is that? Doesn't look like Big Joe or Little Joe to me.

I assumed it was Big Joe. I haven't seen any other photographs of him to compare it against. Definitely not Little Joe anyway.

Gets a lot of natural sunlight inside

if billy fingers was only acting underboss then who was unberboss? Campanella was told at the time that Carmine Persico was the only one with an official administration position. Q You testified that Billy Cutolo eventually held the position of acting underboss. Right? A Yes. Q Who was the underbos...

Genovese have always had 13 or 14 captains there was wiretap back in the 60s saying about money getting brought in for Vito while he was in jail off the 13 families meaning crews and fish cafaro statement in the 80s saying genovese family have always had 13 or 14 captains I just can’t remember thjn...

Nigro apparently was off the panel by 2004, think I've said this previously, he was said to have been involved in a power struggle with Danny Leo. They didn't get along and some of this evidence was going to be used at Nigro's trial but I don't think the government ended up using it. Meant to ask a...

What was I supposed to do? It's on page four of the boss manual, John, Jesus.

Bonanno hit squad

So would Marangello have only been consigliere for about six months then? In March 1974, Violi was recorded telling Rizzuto about how Rastelli was elected official boss, and that Marangello was underboss and Cannone the consigliere.