Snakes wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:37 am
Yeah, I always thought the succession went Buccieri-Torello-Ferriola-Infelise, but Nick C saying Ferriola wasn't a capo seems to contradict that stance. You would think that if someone succeeded a guy as powerful as Turk was that he'd be a capo but the Nick C statement just casts sole shades of doubt on that idea.
Notice that when Nick first says that Ferriola wasn't a capo was when Torello was alive. Later, when Black Sam was boss, Nick wasn't sure if DiFronzo was a capo or underboss. Ferriola was, at that time, just a "money maker." Scarpelli in his 302 said that when Black Sam was the boss he also wasn't sure who the underboss was. He thought it could have been Ferriola. He said that Ferriola headed his crew in Cicero, James LaPietra a crew around 26th Street, DiFronzo headed EP, and Vincent Solano the North Side crew. He added that Tocco was the boss of Chicago Heights and Louis Eboli succeeded Joe Lombardo in Grand Avenue, but he didn't know who replaced him after he died.
We also have the testimony of others who support the fact that Ferriola was a capo or "street boss" of a crew. BJ Jahoda testified that Rocky Infelice succeeded Ferriola to head the crew in agreement with what Scarpelli said. Joseph Granata testified that Ferriola was the boss of the Cicero crew. When Ken Eto testified earlier in the 1980s while Accardo, Aiuppa and Cerone were in the top positions, he stated that Ferriola was a territorial boss and so were Solano, Pilotto, Lombardo and La Pietra. He didn't mention DiFronzo and may have been unaware of him.
I think we can conclude that most of what they knew was what they were told, and they were told this on a need to know basis. They probably didn't ask questions since that would make them look suspicious. But based on the preponderance of the evidence I would have to say that Ferriola was indeed a capo after Torello and before Infelice. I suspect Nick was unaware of Ferriola's promotion and never asked, so he relied on older information that was never updated.