I specify that - when a man of honor decides to emigrate - he is provided with a letter of passage, that is a real letter of introduction, written, which is sent from the Sicilian head of the family to the American one.
- Ganci was born in 1960 and cooperated in the mid-1990s, but the protocol he describes is identical with what Nicola Gentile described in the 1900s-1920s. The "letter of introduction" has also shown up in other research into early mafia history. Ganci was only old enough to be active in the 1980s and 1990s, so the letter of introduction was still in use then.
- Ganci visited NYC at one point, meeting Paolo LoDuca, who he referred to as Rosario Naimo's "compare". He didn't mention LoDuca's membership, but Italian investigators identified LoDuca as a Sicilian mafia member, making it likely his membership in the Luccheses was a transfer. Ganci knew Naimo personally from Naimo's stay in Palermo during the early 1980s.
- He believed the San Lorenzo, Passo di Rigano, and San Giuseppe Iato families had the closest ties to American mafia families and said Salvatore Riina himself had ties to American families.
- Ganci said that Filippo Casamento had been a member of the Sicilian mafia (Boccadifalco) and then became a member of the American mafia. Casamento most likely transferred to the Gambino family. The Gotti tapes might shed light on this during a discussion the admin had about John Gambino's decina:
^ Filippo Casamento was a "big gray-haired guy" who closely associated with John Gambino's crew, so that much fits. He was also a conspirator in the murder of the earlier captain of the crew, Nino Inzerillo. Inzerillo and his brothers may have transferred from the Sicilian mafia themselves given the extensive membership/leadership of the Inzerillos in Passo di Rigano.
^ Gravano twice using the word "accept" to refer to members brought into the decina lends itself more to a transfer than an induction, same with the reference to losing one member who moved to Italy.
- Investigators believe John Stanfa was a member in Sicily before coming to the US in 1964. Nino Giuffre was sponsored into the Caccamo family by Stanfa in the early 1980s. He was likely a transfer to the Philadelphia family.
- The 1970s Violi tapes in Montreal revealed that the Bonanno crew there allowed Sicilian mafia members to transfer but first had to follow certain protocol, including a waiting period and then only if space was available.'
- Michael DiLeonardo identified Ignazio Ingrassia as a member under captain Jack D'Amico. Ingrassia is a Sicilian mafia member in the Ciaculli family who fled to the US to escape prosecution during the 1990s and appears to have transferred. Ingrassia lived in NJ and associated with Frank Cali, being arrested in 2007 and extradited back to Italy. Ingrassia is a relative of old Brooklyn Gambino member Giuseppe Ingrassia.
- Felice shared info about Salvatore Lombardo who had to receive a letter in 2012 from the boss of Montelepre so that he could join the Gambino family. He had been living in the US for decades and associated closely with the Gambino family but the old letter protocol still had to be followed.
