Visiting Rockford

[Angelo Santino]

This is from Cavita-

JOSPEH ZAMMUTO (1896-1990)
UNDERBOSS
FRANK BUSCEMI (1911-1987)
CONSIGLIERE
JOSEPH “DIAMOND JOE” ZITO (1904-1981)
CAPO
LORENZO BUTTICE (1892-1967)
STREET GAMBLING BOSS
CHARLES VINCE (1907-1994)

SOLDIERS
TONY BASILE (1907-1977)
PHIL CALTAGERONE (1895-1971) Member of the consiglio, acting boss 1931/1932
PHIL CANNELLA (1914-1971)
ALFRED CICERO (1906-1994)
PHIL EMORDENO (1911-1981) May have shared street gambling boss position with Charles Vince
JOSEPH GUTTILLA (1887-1963)
JOSEPH MARINELLI (1918-1980)
SAM OLIVERI (1895-1969) Inactive, retired
PHIL PRIOLA (1907-1987)
GEORGE SALADINO (1892-1964) Possibly onetime capo
JOSEPH STASSI (1892-1963)

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Questions

1 Was there anyone else on the consiglio besides Phil Caltagerone?
2 You differentiated two guys as Gambling Street Bosses. Were these guys officially captains or soldiers?

[Angelo Santino]

Joe Zammuto married a Lena Schiro, born in Louisiana. Nick Schiro had relatives in Nola.

[Angelo Santino]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.

43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?

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rockford 1967.PNG

[cavita]

This is from Cavita-

JOSPEH ZAMMUTO (1896-1990)
UNDERBOSS
FRANK BUSCEMI (1911-1987)
CONSIGLIERE
JOSEPH “DIAMOND JOE” ZITO (1904-1981)
CAPO
LORENZO BUTTICE (1892-1967)
STREET GAMBLING BOSS
CHARLES VINCE (1907-1994)

SOLDIERS
TONY BASILE (1907-1977)
PHIL CALTAGERONE (1895-1971) Member of the consiglio, acting boss 1931/1932
PHIL CANNELLA (1914-1971)
ALFRED CICERO (1906-1994)
PHIL EMORDENO (1911-1981) May have shared street gambling boss position with Charles Vince
JOSEPH GUTTILLA (1887-1963)
JOSEPH MARINELLI (1918-1980)
SAM OLIVERI (1895-1969) Inactive, retired
PHIL PRIOLA (1907-1987)
GEORGE SALADINO (1892-1964) Possibly onetime capo
JOSEPH STASSI (1892-1963)

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Questions

1 Was there anyone else on the consiglio besides Phil Caltagerone?
2 You differentiated two guys as Gambling Street Bosses. Were these guys officially captains or soldiers?

Their consiglio consisted of Zammuto, Buscemi, Zito, Buttice and Caltagerone.
Charles Vince was street gambling boss before he became capo in 1966. I have one FBI file that alluded to Emordeno being street gambling boss along with Vince.

[cavita]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.
43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?
buscemi.PNG
rockford 1967.PNG

Buscemi was living next door to his parents and sister Rose. Rose ended up marrying a Giammarese. Don't know if that name is connected or not.

[cavita]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.
43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?
buscemi.PNG
rockford 1967.PNG

Calo had moved back to Sicily in 1961 but the FBI still listed him as a Rockford member for some reason.

[B.]

Maniaci said Calo transferred membership to the Sicilian mafia when he moved.

A+ job with these guys over the years Cavita.

[cavita]

Maniaci said Calo transferred membership to the Sicilian mafia when he moved.

A+ job with these guys over the years Cavita.

Thanks bud, and thanks to CC for posting. It should be noted this chart is from 1963 and though Rockford had three members die between 1963 and 1964, they replaced them by making four new members in early 1965.

[Angelo Santino]

I'm mostly finished. I'll email the excel for you and B. to look over.

A few things-
1
Phillip Frances Cannella
7/8/1914 Illinois
1008 S Main St, Rockford, IL
Luca Cannella Palermo? - Were the Cannellas from Palermo city? I see his wife was from Santi Stefano
Nicolina Cannova Santo Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento, Sicilia
Constance Mary Saladino

Philip J. Priola
4/11/1907
Illinois
Giuseppe Priola
Maria Cannova or Ventimiglia
Margherita Sciortino
Can't find where Priola came from.

2
I need Addresses for.
Francesco Buscemi
Philip J. Priola

3 - Can you provide the Boss Succession?

[B.]

Priolas were from Ficarazzi. His father Joe was a Chicago member.

[PolackTony]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.
43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?
buscemi.PNG
rockford 1967.PNG

Buscemi was living next door to his parents and sister Rose. Rose ended up marrying a Giammarese. Don't know if that name is connected or not.

As Cavita knows better than me, Buscemi was in Chicago from his arrival in the US in 1926. His wife, Giovanna “Jennie” DeMaria was from Chicago and in the 1940s Buscemi stated that he was employed by her father, Vincenzo DiMaria (from Pietraperzia). I’m not sure the exact year that the Buscemis relocated to Rockford but it was obviously after 1950. Vincenzo DiMaria died in ‘57, so was it after that?

Rose Buscemi’s husband, Santo Giammarese, was born in Chicago to Francesco Giammarese and Rosalia D’Aquisto of Bagheria. I don’t know for a fact that they were connected; his stepmother was Grazia LoGalbo. Given their Bagherese origins, good likelihood that someone was connected. There was a Tony Giammarese who was part of a Near Northside robbery “gang” in 1942 that allegedly killed a cop; doesn’t seem to be an immediate relative, however. Interestingly, the ringleader was a kid named Joseph Morreale, a Bagherese name that had some major mafia connections in the 1920s in Chicago; this kid lived on the same block of Evergreen as Frank Buscemi. Tony Priola, Phil Priola’s younger brother, married a Morreale.

[cavita]

I'm mostly finished. I'll email the excel for you and B. to look over.

A few things-
1
Phillip Frances Cannella
7/8/1914 Illinois
1008 S Main St, Rockford, IL
Luca Cannella Palermo? - Were the Cannellas from Palermo city? I see his wife was from Santi Stefano
Nicolina Cannova Santo Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento, Sicilia
Constance Mary Saladino

Philip J. Priola
4/11/1907
Illinois
Giuseppe Priola
Maria Cannova or Ventimiglia
Margherita Sciortino
Can't find where Priola came from.

2
I need Addresses for.
Francesco Buscemi
Philip J. Priola

3 - Can you provide the Boss Succession?

Cannella's family was from Villafranca and his wife Connie was the daughter of Rockford LCN member George Saladino. Saladino sponsored Cannella for membership around 1953.
I can get addresses at a later date. Boss succession was:
1931-1958 with Caltagerone acting boss from 1931-1932 when Musso was in jail.
1958-1990 Joe Zammuto
1990-? Salvatore Galluzzo

[cavita]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.
43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?
buscemi.PNG
rockford 1967.PNG

Buscemi was living next door to his parents and sister Rose. Rose ended up marrying a Giammarese. Don't know if that name is connected or not.

As Cavita knows better than me, Buscemi was in Chicago from his arrival in the US in 1926. His wife, Giovanna “Jennie” DeMaria was from Chicago and in the 1940s Buscemi stated that he was employed by her father, Vincenzo DiMaria (from Pietraperzia). I’m not sure the exact year that the Buscemis relocated to Rockford but it was obviously after 1950. Vincenzo DiMaria died in ‘57, so was it after that?

Rose Buscemi’s husband, Santo Giammarese, was born in Chicago to Francesco Giammarese and Rosalia D’Aquisto of Bagheria. I don’t know for a fact that they were connected; his stepmother was Grazia LoGalbo. Given their Bagherese origins, good likelihood that someone was connected. There was a Tony Giammarese who was part of a Near Northside robbery “gang” in 1942 that allegedly killed a cop; doesn’t seem to be an immediate relative, however. Interestingly, the ringleader was a kid named Joseph Morreale, a Bagherese name that had some major mafia connections in the 1920s in Chicago; this kid lived on the same block of Evergreen as Frank Buscemi. Tony Priola, Phil Priola’s younger brother, married a Morreale.

Buscemi arrived in Rockford in late 1958 and attempted to get a job at Midwest Vending but was turned down. He then formed Stateline Vending himself. Buscemi was made in May 1959 and immediately started pressuring area businesses to start using his vending services and extorting Midwest Vending.
I believe Santo Giammarese was a police officer and may have died in the line of duty.

[PolackTony]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.
43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?
buscemi.PNG
rockford 1967.PNG

Buscemi was living next door to his parents and sister Rose. Rose ended up marrying a Giammarese. Don't know if that name is connected or not.

As Cavita knows better than me, Buscemi was in Chicago from his arrival in the US in 1926. His wife, Giovanna “Jennie” DeMaria was from Chicago and in the 1940s Buscemi stated that he was employed by her father, Vincenzo DiMaria (from Pietraperzia). I’m not sure the exact year that the Buscemis relocated to Rockford but it was obviously after 1950. Vincenzo DiMaria died in ‘57, so was it after that?

Rose Buscemi’s husband, Santo Giammarese, was born in Chicago to Francesco Giammarese and Rosalia D’Aquisto of Bagheria. I don’t know for a fact that they were connected; his stepmother was Grazia LoGalbo. Given their Bagherese origins, good likelihood that someone was connected. There was a Tony Giammarese who was part of a Near Northside robbery “gang” in 1942 that allegedly killed a cop; doesn’t seem to be an immediate relative, however. Interestingly, the ringleader was a kid named Joseph Morreale, a Bagherese name that had some major mafia connections in the 1920s in Chicago; this kid lived on the same block of Evergreen as Frank Buscemi. Tony Priola, Phil Priola’s younger brother, married a Morreale.

Buscemi arrived in Rockford in late 1958 and attempted to get a job at Midwest Vending but was turned down. He then formed Stateline Vending himself. Buscemi was made in May 1959 and immediately started pressuring area businesses to start using his vending services and extorting Midwest Vending.
I believe Santo Giammarese was a police officer and may have died in the line of duty.

Yeah, seems that Buscemi relocated to Rockford after his father-in-law died. Hard to believe that he went fro 0 to 60, hitting the ground running in Rockford like that without pre-existing connections, so I think he was almost certainly a Chicago associate prior to Rockford. Again, no indication that his father-in-law was connected -- the only Chicago guys that we know of (as of yet) from Pietraperzia were the Virrusos, but presumably, they had paesani who were part of the network in Chicago.

If you have anything stating that Santo Giammerese was CPD, let me know. He died in 1964 and I see no indication of foul play in the papers and his obit doesn't list him as CPD. He was, however, a member of the mobbed-up IBT Local 705, a member of the Dominic Nuccio American Legion Post (in the '60s this was being used, unsurprisingly, as an illegal nightclub and house of prostitution), and a member of the Sambuca Society; given that his parents were Bagheresi, one wonders how he got plugged in with the Sambucesi. This makes me wonder if the Aragonese Buscemis were members of the Sambuca Society, though Aragona also had its own Society in Chicago (not sure if it was still extant as of 1964, though). In the 1940s, Santo was living on Huron in the Grand Ave Patch and working at his father Frank Giammerese's grocery store on Oak St in Little Sicily (notable red flag occupation, IMO).

Now, here's something. Santo's older brother, Nick Giammerese (b. 1916), also employed at the family grocery business, was married to Carmella LoPiccolo, sister of outfit-connected narcotics trafficker Joe LoPiccolo: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=9419&p=236569&hili ... lo#p236569

[cavita]

FBI reports say Rockford opposed Frank Buscemi as Joe's successor due to his close ties to Chicago: 1950 census shows Frank Buscemi living in Chicago.
43290879-Illinois-157506-0002.jpg

These reports below are from 1967 I believe, but they mention Charles Vince as a capodecina and mentions Jasper Calo. Was Calo a member in 1963?
buscemi.PNG
rockford 1967.PNG

Buscemi was living next door to his parents and sister Rose. Rose ended up marrying a Giammarese. Don't know if that name is connected or not.

As Cavita knows better than me, Buscemi was in Chicago from his arrival in the US in 1926. His wife, Giovanna “Jennie” DeMaria was from Chicago and in the 1940s Buscemi stated that he was employed by her father, Vincenzo DiMaria (from Pietraperzia). I’m not sure the exact year that the Buscemis relocated to Rockford but it was obviously after 1950. Vincenzo DiMaria died in ‘57, so was it after that?

Rose Buscemi’s husband, Santo Giammarese, was born in Chicago to Francesco Giammarese and Rosalia D’Aquisto of Bagheria. I don’t know for a fact that they were connected; his stepmother was Grazia LoGalbo. Given their Bagherese origins, good likelihood that someone was connected. There was a Tony Giammarese who was part of a Near Northside robbery “gang” in 1942 that allegedly killed a cop; doesn’t seem to be an immediate relative, however. Interestingly, the ringleader was a kid named Joseph Morreale, a Bagherese name that had some major mafia connections in the 1920s in Chicago; this kid lived on the same block of Evergreen as Frank Buscemi. Tony Priola, Phil Priola’s younger brother, married a Morreale.

Buscemi arrived in Rockford in late 1958 and attempted to get a job at Midwest Vending but was turned down. He then formed Stateline Vending himself. Buscemi was made in May 1959 and immediately started pressuring area businesses to start using his vending services and extorting Midwest Vending.
I believe Santo Giammarese was a police officer and may have died in the line of duty.

Yeah, seems that Buscemi relocated to Rockford after his father-in-law died. Hard to believe that he went fro 0 to 60, hitting the ground running in Rockford like that without pre-existing connections, so I think he was almost certainly a Chicago associate prior to Rockford. Again, no indication that his father-in-law was connected -- the only Chicago guys that we know of (as of yet) from Pietraperzia were the Virrusos, but presumably, they had paesani who were part of the network in Chicago.

If you have anything stating that Santo Giammerese was CPD, let me know. He died in 1964 and I see no indication of foul play in the papers and his obit doesn't list him as CPD. He was, however, a member of the mobbed-up IBT Local 705, a member of the Dominic Nuccio American Legion Post (in the '60s this was being used, unsurprisingly, as an illegal nightclub and house of prostitution), and a member of the Sambuca Society; given that his parents were Bagheresi, one wonders how he got plugged in with the Sambucesi. This makes me wonder if the Aragonese Buscemis were members of the Sambuca Society, though Aragona also had its own Society in Chicago (not sure if it was still extant as of 1964, though). In the 1940s, Santo was living on Huron in the Grand Ave Patch and working at his father Frank Giammerese's grocery store on Oak St in Little Sicily (notable red flag occupation, IMO).

Now, here's something. Santo's older brother, Nick Giammerese (b. 1916), also employed at the family grocery business, was married to Carmella LoPiccolo, sister of outfit-connected narcotics trafficker Joe LoPiccolo: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=9419&p=236569&hili ... lo#p236569

Buscemi's meteoric rise in Rockford was because his sister was married to Joe Zammuto's son. The familiarity was already there and that probably caused the move to Rockford. Before Zammuto was boss he was in charge of slot machines in Rockford and made frequent trips to Chicago in relation to this. This was in the 1940s.