1985 lists of made members for all families, unredacted

[sdeitche]

Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night

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Home of Dunder Mifflin paper company

[Snakes]

Looks like they are listing members with their family as well as with affiliated field offices.

[sdeitche]

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising

[sdeitche]

Terry Bradshaw's 1976 album is featured on am episode of the excellent podcast Bizarre Albums

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Meet me in St Louis, Louis

[JoeCamel]

I’m excited for San Jose

[sdeitche]

I’m excited for San Jose

Here you go. I'll wrap up the rest tomorrow.


Do you know the way to San Jose?
I've been away so long
I may go wrong and lose my way.

Of note, member Salvatore Costanza is believed to have had a hidden interest in latex manufacturing company Vandelay Industries.

[Newyorkempire]

I’m excited for San Jose

Here you go. I'll wrap up the rest tomorrow.


Do you know the way to San Jose?
I've been away so long
I may go wrong and lose my way.

Of note, member Salvatore Costanza is believed to have had a hidden interest in latex manufacturing company Vandelay Industries.

That was good

[B.]

I considered that, as Albany was designated as "Members residing in Albany" (the division), but the Buffalo list specifically categorizes them all as the "Magaddino Family" opposed to a geographic designation. Whether or not it's consistent with other FBI lists, there's no question they're categorized as Buffalo members on this one. At least one Rochester member (Sam Campanella) returned to the Buffalo fold years earlier but I believe was deceased by this time.

I think it is the former. In the first page of this thread for the Boston Division it lists Frank Scibelli as a Capo in the New England Family but it specifies that he is a Genovese member.


Pogo

Hard to say given "Rochester" is their location as well as their unofficial Family, and they list Albany and San Diego the same way for Magaddino members.

- Note that they didn't assign ranks to the Rochester-based members on this chart despite them having their own rebel hierarchy. As evidenced with the Arizona "Family" chart, the FBI designated Families for their own purposes even when they didn't formally exist, so it's interesting if nothing else that Rochester-based members are included on this chart as Magaddino members.

- Plays into the FBI's confusion over how to formally assign Rochester during the 1970s / 1980s. The 1977 report Snakes posted has Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and Rochester as different factions of Buffalo each with their own "boss", while the same report cites an informant who said Russotti was elected boss of the Rochester "Family" (we know this was not formally recognized) yet in the same paragraph they cite information about Rochester being "under" the Bonanno Family and we know the FBI carried them as Bonanno members during this period. (The question is if they transferred or were put under the Bonanno Family's protection, i.e. the ex-Gallo guys being "under" the Gambino Family during their conflict)

Rochester is a good example of how the FBI's classification of a Family can be inconsistent with the reality of formal politics. Arizona is too, as Arizona was never formally recognized by the Commission and they meet no standard of organized crime "viability" yet here we have a chart of the "Arizona Family" made up only of Joe Bonanno and his driver.

[Newyorkempire]

I considered that, as Albany was designated as "Members residing in Albany" (the division), but the Buffalo list specifically categorizes them all as the "Magaddino Family" opposed to a geographic designation. Whether or not it's consistent with other FBI lists, there's no question they're categorized as Buffalo members on this one. At least one Rochester member (Sam Campanella) returned to the Buffalo fold years earlier but I believe was deceased by this time.

I think it is the former. In the first page of this thread for the Boston Division it lists Frank Scibelli as a Capo in the New England Family but it specifies that he is a Genovese member.


Pogo

Hard to say given "Rochester" is their location as well as their unofficial Family, and they list Albany and San Diego the same way for Magaddino members.

- Note that they didn't assign ranks to the Rochester-based members on this chart despite them having their own rebel hierarchy. As evidenced with the Arizona "Family" chart, the FBI designated Families for their own purposes even when they didn't formally exist, so it's interesting if nothing else that Rochester-based members are included on this chart as Magaddino members.

- Plays into the FBI's confusion over how to formally assign Rochester during the 1970s / 1980s. The 1977 report Snakes posted has Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and Rochester as different factions of Buffalo each with their own "boss", while the same report cites an informant who said Russotti was elected boss of the Rochester "Family" (we know this was not formally recognized) yet in the same paragraph they cite information about Rochester being "under" the Bonanno Family and we know the FBI carried them as Bonanno members during this period. (The question is if they transferred or were put under the Bonanno Family's protection, i.e. the ex-Gallo guys being "under" the Gambino Family during their conflict)

Rochester is a good example of how the FBI's classification of a Family can be inconsistent with the reality of formal politics. Arizona is too, as Arizona was never formally recognized by the Commission and they meet no standard of organized crime "viability" yet here we have a chart of the "Arizona Family" made up only of Joe Bonanno and his driver.

Do you think they would classify Arizona as such in order to keep coming after Bonanno with more evidence he was never retired? Or expecting a growth of the family there?

What thread is that 1977 report in for Buffalo if your dont mind?

[Newyorkempire]

I had thought Nicoletti Sr. was still alive in '85
and surprised to not see Benedetto Carcone or Russell on the list. Never heard Joe "Theresa" used. Anyone know where it comes from?

Mazzara, Mambrino, Minicone, Panaro, R. Todaro and others from this era who were presumed made missing from this list as well.

[B.]

Do you think they would classify Arizona as such in order to keep coming after Bonanno with more evidence he was never retired? Or expecting a growth of the family there?

What thread is that 1977 report in for Buffalo if your dont mind?

Joe Bonanno thought of himself as a "boss" but that's about it. I'm sure part of the FBI's motivation came from how well-connected JB was and how powerful he once was, but it shows a disconnect between some of the FBI's classifications vs. the mafia's own. LCNBios carried the shelved West Coast members as Bonanno members on his charts through the 2000s because he was a researcher who stayed true to the internal formalities these guys follow.

There's a late 1970s FBI chart where Joe and Bill Bonanno are carried as San Jose members and I've got no clue why they'd put them there beyond their ties to the area. It again shows a disconnect between some FBI designations and reality:


With Rochester, even though the rest of the US didn't consider them a real Family they were a "viable" organized crime group who operated like one so I understand why the FBI would target them as if they were one. Rochester was still using the blueprint of Cosa Nostra leadership, structure, and rituals. It's just that politically they were as much of a "Family" as the Gallo brothers' crew in NYC. In order to have their membership recognized, they would either have to fall back in with Buffalo or receive representation from another Family (like the Bonanno rumors suggest). A question is if others aside from Campanella fell back in with Buffalo later.

Here's the 1977 thread by Snakes:

https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtop ... 9&p=218265

[Newyorkempire]

Do you think they would classify Arizona as such in order to keep coming after Bonanno with more evidence he was never retired? Or expecting a growth of the family there?

What thread is that 1977 report in for Buffalo if your dont mind?

Joe Bonanno thought of himself as a "boss" but that's about it. I'm sure part of the FBI's motivation came from how well-connected JB was and how powerful he once was, but it shows a disconnect between some of the FBI's classifications vs. the mafia's own. LCNBios carried the shelved West Coast members as Bonanno members on his charts through the 2000s because he was a researcher who stayed true to the internal formalities these guys follow.

With Rochester, even though the rest of the US didn't consider them a real Family they were a "viable" organized crime group who operated like one so I understand why the FBI would target them as if they were one. Rochester was still using the blueprint of Cosa Nostra leadership, structure, and rituals. It's just that politically they were as much of a "Family" as the Gallo brothers' crew in NYC. In order to have their membership recognized, they would either have to fall back in with Buffalo or receive representation from another Family (like the Bonanno rumors suggest). A question is if others aside from Campanella fell back in with Buffalo later.

Here's the 1977 thread by Snakes:

https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtop ... 9&p=218265

Got it. Classifications. Shows metrics are still extremely fluid on both ends.

And yes..I commented on it already. Sorry, didnt know if it was a different one.

[B.]

They're fluid when it comes to outsiders trying to understand them, but not so much inside of the org. The entire US mafia knew Joe Bonanno was no longer recognized and there was no Family in Arizona. Informants through the 1970s showed that Joe Bonanno's attempts to receive backing from leaders in California and Colorado were rejected because they understood he was a shelved/deposed former boss.