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Gambino Family Rava-Dellacroce Crew: Armand "Tommy" Rava (1950s-Late 1958) Killed. -In 1958 this Crew was split between Aniello “Neil” Dellacroce and Anthony Rizzo Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce (1958-1965) Became Underboss. Michael “Mike Tally/The Baker” Caiazza (1968-1985) Demoted....

Here is the succession for the Crews of the 5 families from the old forum. I've made a few updates and corrections. Special thanks to JD for uncovering most of this info. B., HairyKnucles and Wiseguy contributed as well. As always any additions or corrections are welcome. --------------------------...

Gambino Family Rava-Dellacroce Crew: Armand "Tommy" Rava (1950s-Late 1958) Killed. -In 1958, this crew was split between Aniello “Neil” Dellacroce and Anthony Rizzo. Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce (1958/60-1965) Became UnderBoss. Michael “Mike Tally/The Baker” Caiazza (1968-1985) Dem...

I've been thinking what would have happened if Salvie if ever got the top spot because of his reputation, pedigree and power base in South Philly. The stories I've heard makes me think that he could possibly be just another version of Scarfo or something idk

This is biggest "what ifs" shaking my head regarding the mob. Would he have most likely gotten convicted along with the rest of the Scarfo crew in '88 including Scarfo, Leonetti, the Merlinos, Joey Pung, the Narduccis, the Grandes, etc.

While i'm not totally defending these guys wholeheartedly, from what I'm hearing, it clearly doesn't seem fair to release a bunch of psychos like Anthony Senter while Orena is fucking 90 and clearly isn't as much of a danger to society than he was 30 years ago. It really reveals the hypocrisy of the...

After the decline of both Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes in the 80s respectively, what or who would've filled the massive power vacuum in the town that was first built by the likes of Bumpy Johnson and Madame St. Clair

While it's said that they were friends/crewmates (In fact Grande's father "Coo Coo Johnny" Grande was in Phillip Testa's crew at one point becoming Bruno's underboss in 1970, after which Chickie Narducci took over the crew), I heard on a GangsterBB.net article, "Scarfo vs Salvie"...

They were around the same age group, contemporary captains in the family, both were in Johnny Oddo's crew and under Oddo's tutelage before Mimi moved over to be a soldier in Sonny's crew and Scialo was allegedly set up by Panarella and acting capo of the Franzese crew, "Little Joe" Brancat...

I heard on here how Wayne Grande would come into a bar on 15th and Wolf to taunt Joe Pung for betraying Salvie by playing "What Friends are For". In Mafia Prince, Phil Leonetti said that Joey Grande would whisper into his ear to seem like they were talking about Joe Pung but weren't and th...

I've seen some recent photos of him resurfacing after his release from the can and he got into a beef with the Grandes especially Joey Grande in the can for his loyalty to Scarfo, so did he ever come back to the fold or not?

I already know of the crews of the 3 rebel captains in the Bonnanos' especially the Bronx regime of Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera, but I don't about Sonny Red's crew. Who were in it?

Were they uncle/nephew or cousins or distant relatives something?

After Salvie Testa was killed by his "friends" Joey Pung and Wayne Grande and his lucrative rackets were divided amongst the others especially his killers, what was the fate of his once powerful crew up to today and who took over after Salvie

After Tommy was promoted to Castellano's underboss in December, 1985, what likely happened to his old crew and who took over?