Bonanno crime family street boss locked up

[Rocco]

If Mancuso is in fact the official boss and he is from the Bronx crew. There must be someone close to him in the Bronx passing his word to the street. I know their Bronx crew was leveled one after the other by the feds...but there still must be someone from the Bronx area close to Mancuso issuing his decree for him. I can't see it being someone from Queens?

[TommyGambino]

Is DiFiore UB? He only got 20 months, already done about a year, he'll be out in 6 months tops.

[Pogo The Clown]

Is DiFiore UB?

Yes.


Pogo

[East Bronx]

Your usually never wrong about the Bronx pal

Thank you. Bu I ain't any smarter than anyone else. It's just that when you live with certain people for 55 years, you pick up a thing or two.

Edit: I'm probably smarter than that Scarpo guy .

what's your take on mancuso being the official boss ?? I'm not buying that at all

I've also made my position very clear on that over the years. I respect Ivy and Pogo and their access to Federal documents immensely. I'm not one of these "neighborhood guys" who thinks that people from out of state and from Europe don't deserve to have an opinion about this stuff. I was just saying this, but Hairy Knuckles is the finest researcher I've ever encountered on any of these sites. And he's a Swede.

That being said, I'm pretty adamant about this one. If Mikey's the boss, it's in name only. And it's only to deflect attention from where the real power lies right now. Who's a better lightning rod than a guy who's gonna be in jail for another four or five years?

Too many people don't like him, especially the old Westside guard over by Pelham Bay Park. The older Lukes don't like him either. I heard Hooks wouldn't even sit with him a few years back. Now, in this day and age the Bonanno's don't need anyone to approve who they put in the top spot. But believe me, this guy is just TOO disliked. Some of the old timers just can't get past the fact that he whacked his wife.

So my closing opinion? No way he's boss when he walks out of jail. No way at all. But again, that's just two cents from a grumpy old man.

And Happy Palm Sunday to my Catholic brethren.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Exactly. It sounds like like a tremendous crock of shit, or law enforcement fishing and tickling the wire through a third rate journalist. I ain't buying it.

This.

[B.]

Palazzolo was at the Bono wedding. I've always been interested in him but there isn't a whole lot out there.

[Pogo The Clown]

Palazzolo has been confirmed as a Capo.


Pogo

[willychichi]

Judge sends elderly mobster back to prison for meeting with criminal pals

Bingo just wasn’t going to cut it for this aging Bonanno.

A Brooklyn federal judge​ scolded a geriatric mobster for violating his supervised release by meeting up with old criminal colleagues after getting out of jail for attempted murder.

After sentencing reputed Bonanno Bronx street boss Jack Palazzolo, 77, to a year and a day behind bars, Judge Nicholas Garaufis ​lectured the teetering hoodlum for falling back into his life of crime.

“The court is extremely concerned about the behavior that brings us to this day,” Garaufis said. “It’s rather astonishing that a person in your medical condition, Mr. Palazzolo, would be engaged in meeting with persons who are maybe involved in organized criminal activities.”

Read more: http://nypost.com/2015/06/23/judge-send ... inal-pals/

[SonnyBlackstein]

"Bonanno Bronx street boss"?
Taking over the "Bonanno queens crew"?

All nonsensical gibberish.

[Dellacroce]

"Bonanno Bronx street boss"?
Taking over the "Bonanno queens crew"?

All nonsensical gibberish.

Bonanno Bronx street boss=Bonanno capo of almost non existent bronx crew....

[JCB1977]

How many new guys have the Bonannos made since the family was decimated?

[East Bronx]

How many new guys have the Bonannos made since the family was decimated?

The Nose got a couple of nitwits made from the can a few months ago. I think Capeci reported it about eleven days after the ceremony. That's no bullshit. Tells you everything you need to know.

As an aside, and not that it matters, but it was a desperation move. He's using whatever pull he still has to beef up a regime that barely exists anymore (the Bronx Bonannos). But he's still gonna be awful disappointed when he walks out of prison in four years and they tell him he's not the boss.

The few longtime Bronx guys left in that family are firmly entrenched in the Queens/Long Island camp today. That's where Johnnie Joe sent his crew, and Johnnie was MUCH more well-liked than Nose, by ALL the families. Speaks volumes. And Johnnie comes home about a year or so after Mikey. Should be interesting, assuming that Mikey doesn't end up back in the can before Johnnie's release because they hate each other like poison.

[Wiseguy]

How many new guys have the Bonannos made since the family was decimated?

Unless the feds revealed that info (based on info from somebody inside the Bonannos) there is no way to know. I suppose you could look at the number of guys who have died since that time and make a fairly good assumption that the family has steadily replaced them.

As an aside, in my opinion, the figure of 150 members cited by some for the Bonannos back in the late 1990's/early 2000's was inflated. Back in 2001, the FBI released a "no contact" list for Robert Lino of every known made member. There were 111 guys on that list, including Lino himself. In 2006, wiretaps from the Basciano case revealed there were less than 100 soldiers in the family. Add perhaps another 15 guys for the administration and captains, it's still nowhere near 150.

[JCB1977]

How many new guys have the Bonannos made since the family was decimated?

The Nose got a couple of nitwits made from the can a few months ago. I think Capeci reported it about eleven days after the ceremony. That's no bullshit. Tells you everything you need to know.

As an aside, and not that it matters, but it was a desperation move. He's using whatever pull he still has to beef up a regime that barely exists anymore (the Bronx Bonannos). But he's still gonna be awful disappointed when he walks out of prison in four years and they tell him he's not the boss.

The few longtime Bronx guys left in that family are firmly entrenched in the Queens/Long Island camp today. That's where Johnnie Joe sent his crew, and Johnnie was MUCH more well-liked than Nose, by ALL the families. Speaks volumes. And Johnnie comes home about a year or so after Mikey. Should be interesting, assuming that Mikey doesn't end up back in the can before Johnnie's release because they hate each other like poison.

Why was Mancuso made boss? Also, who do you speculate will take over the Bonannos?

[JCB1977]

How many new guys have the Bonannos made since the family was decimated?

Unless the feds revealed that info (based on info from somebody inside the Bonannos) there is no way to know. I suppose you could look at the number of guys who have died since that time and make a fairly good assumption that the family has steadily replaced them.

As an aside, in my opinion, the figure of 150 members cited by some for the Bonannos back in the late 1990's/early 2000's was inflated. Back in 2001, the FBI released a "no contact" list for Robert Lino of every known made member. There were 111 guys on that list, including Lino himself. In 2006, wiretaps from the Basciano case revealed there were less than 100 soldiers in the family. Add perhaps another 15 guys for the administration and captains, it's still nowhere near 150.

I know you're big on what the Feds say...but keep in mind that the Feds get alot of useless information from idiots looking to get out of an indictment and their resources aren't what they were even back in the 1990's. I have over 250 FBI reports and it amazes me how many conflicting stories that CI-1, CI-2, CI-3, CI-4 make in one report. While the FBI has quite a bit of tools in their toolbox, they make alot of mistakes as well. That number of 150 also could have included non-active guys or guys in semi-retirement as well.