Bonanno 2015 chart (work in progress)

[chin_gigante]

Putting together a Bonanno chart for 2015. Have to pick a specific time in 2015 because of the big administration shake-up in March. I'm thinking December 2015 so we can use surveillance pics from the Christmas party. This is what I've got:

- Boss: Michael Mancuso (IP/ FCI Danbury)
- Acting Boss & Official Underboss: Joseph Cammarano, Jr.
- Consigliere: Anthony Rabito
- Panel Member & Captain: Joseph Sabella
- Panel Member & Captain: John Zancocchio

Captains

- Jerome Asaro (IP)
- Vincent Asaro (no crew)
- Gerard Chilli
- John Contello
- Joseph DeSimone
- Joseph Grimaldi
- Vito Grimaldi
- Peter Lovaglio
- Anthony Pipitone
- John Sciremammano

Acting Captains

- Albert Armetta (Lovaglio crew)
- Anthony Fasitta
- Ronald Giallanzo (J Asaro crew)
- Vincenzo Masi
- Natale Mule (J Grimaldi crew)
- Michael Padavona (J Asaro crew)
- Anthony Vaccaro

Soldiers

- Frank Adamo
- Sandro Aiosa (J Asaro crew)
- Alfred Altadonna
- Vincent Amarante
- Robert Attanasio
- Vincent Badalamenti
- Vito Badamo, Sr.
- Vito Balsamo
- Antonino Bonventre (J Asaro crew)
- Giuseppe Bosco
- Anthony Calabrese
- Dino Cammarano
- Anthony Caponigro
- Michael Cardello
- John Carlucci
- Ronald Carlucci
- Robert Caroleo
- Vincent Caroleo (shelved)
- Thomas Carrube (Lovaglio crew)
- Michael Cassese
- Salvatore Catalano
- John Cicala
- Louis Civello
- Frank Coppa, Jr.
- Joseph Corrado
- Peter Cosoleto
- Daniel Costanzo
- Perry Criscitelli
- Vincenzo D'Antoni
- Louis DeCicco
- Michael DeMaria
- John DeSena
- Steven DeSimone (DeSimone crew)
- Thomas DiFiore
- Anthony DiGregorio
- Alphonse DiPilato
- Vincent DiSario
- Joseph DiStefano
- Michael Donofrio
- Simone Esposito (shelved)
- Vincent Faraci
- Thomas Ferreri
- Nicholas Festa (J Asaro crew)
- Anthony Furino
- James Galante
- Joseph Giddio
- Anthony Graziano (shelved)
- Joseph Indelicato
- John Licata
- Joseph Lino
- Joseph Loiacono
- Ronald Lorenzo
- Anthony Mannone
- Pasquale Maiorino
- Salvatore Marchese
- Mark Meleo
- Dominick Merolla
- Vito Militano
- Domenick Miniero
- John Mirabile
- Antonino Mistretta
- Salvatore Morale
- Vincenzo Morena (Pipitone crew?)
- Richard Musumeci
- Antonio Navarra
- Filippo Navarra
- Michael Palmaccio (J Asaro crew)
- Anthony Palmiotto
- Frank Pastore (Lovaglio crew)
- Vito Pipitone (Pipitone crew?)
- Anthony Piscopo
- Giuseppe Pizzo
- Frank Porco
- David Primiano
- Michael Primiano
- Salvatore Puccio
- Armando Rea
- Richard Riccardi
- Pasquala Romania
- Frank Salerno
- Joseph Sammartino
- Joseph Santapaola
- Ronald Scala
- Anthony Sclafani
- Ronald Serra
- Joseph Spatola
- John Spirito, Jr. (shelved)
- Enzo Stagno (shelved)
- Joseph Taglianetti
- Arthur Tarzia (Sabella crew)
- Joseph Torre
- Charles Travella
- George Tropiano (Lovaglio crew)
- Anthony Valenti (J Asaro crew)
- Thomas Valenti (Lovaglio crew)
- Joseph Yannucci
- Damiano Zummo (Pipitone crew?)

Incarcerated

- Anthony Aiello
- Ernest Aiello
- Baldassare Amato
- Louis Attanasio
- Vito Badamo
- Vincent Basciano, Jr.
- Vincent Basciano, Sr.
- Giacomo Bonventre
- Peter Calabrese
- Joseph Chilli, III
- Dominick Deluccia
- Fabrizio DiFrancisci
- Anthony Donato
- Anthony Frascone
- Gino Galestro
- Anthony Guarino
- Anthony Indelicato
- Robert Lino, Jr.
- Stephen LoCurto
- Daniel Mongelli
- John Palazzolo
- Thomas Pitera
- John Ragano
- Nicholas Santora
- Anthony Santoro
- Paul Spina
- John Spirito, Sr.
- Anthony Urso

Cooperating witnesses

- Generoso Barbieri
- Joseph Bonanno
- Paul Cantarella
- Richard Cantarella
- Dominick Cicale
- Frank Coppa, Sr.
- Joseph D'Amico
- Frank Lino
- Joseph Massino
- Nicholas Pisciotti
- Peter Rosa
- James Tartaglione
- Salvatore Vitale

Also wanting to include Montreal for the sake of being thorough. Maybe with a disclaimer about their status being unknown. Alfonso Gagliano is the only remaining confirmed Bonanno member at the time. Also listing guys Daniel Renaud identified as hommes d'honeur, though I'd very much be surprised if it turned out guys like Pietrantonio or Scoppa were Bonanno members.

Montreal

- Alfonso Gagliano
- Francesco Arcadi (possible member)
- Lorenzo Giordano (possible member)
- Antonio Mucci (possible member)
- Antonio Pietrantonio (possible member)
- Andrea Scoppa (possible member)
- Rocco Sollecito (possible member)
- Antonio Vanelli (possible member)
- Antonio Volpato (possible member)

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Is there anyone I've missed? When it came to captains I stuck with guys who were ID'd in the VOSR reports from meetings in that year.

Also, what's the source for Robert Caroleo's membership? I've found at least one supporting source for everyone else.

[OcSleeper]

Wasn't Damiano Zummo acting captain when he conducted the ceremony in Hamilton in November 15, 2015?

For Montreal, other possible members would be Vincenzo Spagnolo (murdered 2016) and Emmanuel Ragusa (died 2018)

[motorfab]

I also doubt that Pietrantonio was a member of the Bonannos. I think the same for Lorenzo Giordano.

Noted that the membership of Gagliano is also quite questionable and is debated among confirmed researchers such as Cedilot & Noel or within the RCMP. I think it comes from the fact that only Lino has to talk about it.

I agree for Spagnolo and Ragusa, although it is possible that Ragusa was originally a member of the cosca of Cattolica Eraclea

[chin_gigante]

Wasn't Damiano Zummo acting captain when he conducted the ceremony in Hamilton in November 15, 2015?

For Montreal, other possible members would be Vincenzo Spagnolo (murdered 2016) and Emmanuel Ragusa (died 2018)

If memory serves, Zummo was serving in an unofficial capacity at the ceremony and wasn't actually bumped to acting captain until sometime in 2016. From court documents, during the ceremony he told Morena that a redacted name was their captain and another redacted name was their acting captain.

[B.]

Alfonso Gagliano should absolutely be on the list given Lino was formally introduced to him, was told about him by LoPresti, and identified him as the man he met via photograph. The RCMP in my opinion doesn't have a great public record in terms of organizational designations and I don't know what kind of political pressure may have impacted their view on Gagliano. I know when Pierre and I disagreed on it, it seemed like we had a fundamentally different view of what traditional mafia recruitment entails.

I think your Montreal list is as good as any based on available information (which isn't much). Pietrantonio is one of the men who sided with Montagna, which is an indication he was a possible member or at least associate whose loyalty to the Family was petitioned.

For Giordano, if it's true he was made in 2004 we have information (thanks to Chin) that the Bonanno Family and Montagna were actively working with Montreal at that time and afterward, as evidenced by Montreal requesting that Massino's associate Vincent Vertuccio be placed on record with Montagna apparently in relation to some kind of Canadian activitity: https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtop ... 1&p=231071

Great work Chin.

[Pogo The Clown]

Is Basciano Jr. a member? He was a proposed member in the early 2000s but was still an associate at the time of his 2013 arrest.


Pogo

[aray22]

Is Basciano Jr. a member? He was a proposed member in the early 2000s but was still an associate at the time of his 2013 arrest.


Pogo

I feel like if he was we would know right?

[Teflon Dom]

Is Basciano Jr. a member? He was a proposed member in the early 2000s but was still an associate at the time of his 2013 arrest.


Pogo

I recall this being disputed before by Bronx aka westside on gbb? Seems to be up in the air but I assume he would be. Don't think theres solid evidence either way though.

[chin_gigante]

I'll need to check my notes again on Basciano Jr. There's a court document that either lists him as being with Ernie Aiello in the early 2010s or a member of his crew. I can't remember which off the top of my head so I'll check again.

I put Basciano Jr on the list based on information from Gene Borrello. This is what he said in the mugshots Q&A about Basciano's sons:

From what I know they made Jr. Not the others.

[AntComello]

Jrs gotta be made

[antimafia]

If a Canadian mobster farts in the forest and there isn’t an American LCN member around, does anybody hear or smell the scoreggia?

[B.]

If a Canadian mobster farts in the forest and there isn’t an American LCN member around, does anybody hear or smell the scoreggia?

Doesn't matter who smells it or whether they bottle it and send it to NYC or keep it to themselves, if you're with a Family that's who you're with in terms of formal recognition within the network.

I'm sure Chin is operating from the POV for this chart that we lack intel that substantially counters the belief that inducted members of Cosa Nostra in Montreal have affiliation with another group outside of those with Sicilian mafia affiliation.

[aray22]

I'll need to check my notes again on Basciano Jr. There's a court document that either lists him as being with Ernie Aiello in the early 2010s or a member of his crew. I can't remember which off the top of my head so I'll check again.

I put Basciano Jr on the list based on information from Gene Borrello. This is what he said in the mugshots Q&A about Basciano's sons:

From what I know they made Jr. Not the others.

Where can I read this Q&A?

[CabriniGreen]

If a Canadian mobster farts in the forest and there isn’t an American LCN member around, does anybody hear or smell the scoreggia?

Lol... To be fair to the guys... they are doing a Bonnano chart.

Now if we do an assessment of the Organized Crime landscape of Quebec province... thsts a different thing entirely...

@Chin

You really think the Scoppas were made? I think he would have said so in the book.....

[B.]

If a Canadian mobster farts in the forest and there isn’t an American LCN member around, does anybody hear or smell the scoreggia?

Lol... To be fair to the guys... they are doing a Bonnano chart.

Now if we do an assessment of the Organized Crime landscape of Quebec province... thsts a different thing entirely...

@Chin

You really think the Scoppas were made? I think he would have said so in the book.....

Agree 100% "the Bonanno question" is a footnote in discussions of Montreal organized crime and their networks of relationships.