New LCNBios posts

[gohnjotti]

Do Philly, DeCavs and NE have to pass round a list? Or the 5 don't give a f outside of NYC

In 2010, Scoops Licata was on tape talking about how he still passed the names of guys he proposed to the Gambino and Genovese families but not to the others.

One would assume it's passed around to members of the other three families. The DeCavalcantes have had documented dealings with all Five Families in the 21st century.

[Tonyd621]

Angelo Loiacono and Louis Barbusca two new ones just updated. New to me at least

[JoelTurner]

New post on Steve Trifiro

(https://lcnbios.blogspot.com/2024/05/st ... o.html?m=1)

[bn]

New post on Dominick Cappolla.

Interesting that JD seems to imply that Paul 'Paulie Lefty' Della Universita was a made member.

The April 1974 report also mentions John Caputo and Vincent Potenza as members of Generoso's crew. Anyone know if they were actually with another family ?

[motorfab]

New post about Peter Giammona, Los Angeles Crime Family member
https://lcnbios.blogspot.com/2024/06/pe ... geles.html

[JoelTurner]

Really interesting that he was in Newark in the mid-1930s before the Newark family broke up

Also cool that this article confirms that Salvatore Cammarata was a member

[B.]

Didn't realize Salvatore was Alex Camarata's brother. Maybe Joel has mentioned it and I missed it but back before anyone had dug in it was assumed he was Nello Cammarata's brother which was disproven a while back but this is even more interesting.

The Misuraca clan is like the perfect microcosm of the mafia phenomenon -- originally tied to St. Louis, but ended up in Flint, Newark, Florida, and California with ties if not affiliation with the local Families in each location. Went all the way to the admin of the Colombos and were involved in some violence but overall extremely low-key and not big arch-criminals. To paraphrase Gentile, everything they did in life was mafia.

I assume Pietro Misuraca Sr. was a member as Peter Jr. said he was arranged to marry a woman in Detroit but she instead married a Detroit boss a short time later who died early on and seems to have been Sam Catalanotte. I'm not sure who she was but between arranging marriages in prominent mafia circles and virtually all of his sons/relatives being members or associate it's a good bet Pietro was a Sicilian mafia member who transferred in America.

Their hometown Giardinello doesn't come up much but it's obvious why they were in St. Louis and especially Michigan as it is by Terrasini, Cinisi, Partinico/Borgetto, Montelepre, and the gateway to the Trapani coast. In Flint they were with a Trapanese faction from towns like Monte San Giuliano and San Vito lo Capo. On one hand it doesn't exactly fit the Colombos, moreso the Bonannos, but it isn't far from Carini which was hugely important in the Colombos (never seen anything linking Misuraca to the Brooklyn Carinesi though) and you also have Profaci's close relationship to Detroit.

[JoelTurner]

Another Colombo member who was a part of this clan was Angelo Speciale.

His mother’s brother Philip Tinervia was married to John Misuraca’s sister Angelina.

Additionally, his wife Rose Pezzino was a first cousin to Alex & Sam Cammarata. Her mother Girolama and their father Andrea were siblings.