5 Family's Making Ceremonies

[B.]

Valachi said Gambino member Frank Luciano was sponsored for membership by Jimmy "Marino" LePore who was murdered in 1931. It came up because Albert Anastasia asked Tony Bender who brought Luciano into the Family as he didn't like him and wanted to know how he even became a member.

Pretty interesting as it shows non-Sicilians were inducting other non-Sicilians that early.

[JohnnyS]

Gambinos

2007:
Onofrio "Noel" Modica

[Browniety86]

Gambinos

2007:
Onofrio "Noel" Modica

Wonder why Modica wasn't made til 2007...didn't he take part in a drive by hit in like '87? IIRC, they used a motorcycle...

[B.]

The info about Jack Scalise being sponsored by Nino Conte came from Giacomo Vicari when he first came to the board, before we sniffed him out. I came across the post a while back. Might want to remove that.

[Pogo The Clown]

Thanks for this B. Unfortunately I can't edit the original post.


Pogo

[JohnnyS]

Gambinos

2007:
Onofrio "Noel" Modica

Wonder why Modica wasn't made til 2007...didn't he take part in a drive by hit in like '87? IIRC, they used a motorcycle...

Alcohol and drug problems.

[JohnnyS]

Genovese

2016:
Michael Messina

[bn]

Gambino member Rudolph 'Rudy' Pipolo was said to have been made 'around the time Frank Scalise was killed' so around mid-late 1957.

[Pmac2]

I just wonder how did we find out this guy michael Messina was inducted into the genovese family?

[OcSleeper]

In the superseding indictment of Michael Messina (the file is at the bottom of the link) it noted the investigation dated back to 2011 and stated:

At various times relevant to this indictment, MICHAEL MESSINA, the defendant, was an associate of and a Soldier in the Genovese Organized Crime Family.

So based on that we know he was inducted sometime between 2011 and 2022.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/fo ... cketeering

Edit:
I see JohnnyS said he was made in 2016. I don't remember if a specific year was ever determined but I'd trust JohnnyS on it. Maybe he'll answer it for the both of us now.

[JohnnyS]

In the superseding indictment of Michael Messina (the file is at the bottom of the link) it noted the investigation dated back to 2011 and stated:

At various times relevant to this indictment, MICHAEL MESSINA, the defendant, was an associate of and a Soldier in the Genovese Organized Crime Family.

So based on that we know he was inducted sometime between 2011 and 2022.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/fo ... cketeering

Edit:
I see JohnnyS said he was made in 2016. I don't remember if a specific year was ever determined but I'd trust JohnnyS on it. Maybe he'll answer it for the both of us now.

From GL few months back.

Messina's first gaffe, according to affidavits, came in the Spring of 2016, on the day he met the car service driver who needed cash. After giving the cabby the first of many loans that grew to $150,000, Messina allegedly told him: "You're with a wiseguy now."

His next screw-up came in the spring of 2018 when Messina bragged to his loanshark customer that he was celebrating his anniversary as a made man: "It's my two-year anniversary," Messina said, and made sure the cabby knew what anniversary he was talking about, by pointing to his chest and stating: "It's two years I got my thing, my stripe."

[OcSleeper]

Oh right he was bragging about it thanks

[Guest]

Interesting

[bn]

In Philip Lombardo's FBI File John 'Buster' Ardito is mentioned as being made when he was about 22 years old, which would have been 1941/1942.

[JoelTurner]

In Philip Lombardo's FBI File John 'Buster' Ardito is mentioned as being made when he was about 22 years old, which would have been 1941/1942.

Would this be the earliest reference to the books being open in NYC after they were closed in the early ‘30s?