Franzese story on Joe Colombo notifying Carlo Gambino about a hit

[OmarSantista]

It's interesting the way Magliocco went about the election. It makes me question how well schooled he was by Profaci and even how well schooled Profaci was. It's just odd to me how at that level and at that time, Magliocco didn't understand the; not being able to become/choose a new boss during a time of conflict. A thought is he understood the tensions brewing against Profaci & Bonanno vs. the more liberal commission members and just didn't care what the commission thought after Profaci died. He might've believed it was his family whether the commission liked it or not which Bonanno could've also been putting in his ear.

[B.]

It's interesting the way Magliocco went about the election. It makes me question how well schooled he was by Profaci and even how well schooled Profaci was. It's just odd to me how at that level and at that time, Magliocco didn't understand the; not being able to become/choose a new boss during a time of conflict. A thought is he understood the tensions brewing against Profaci & Bonanno vs. the more liberal commission members and just didn't care what the commission thought after Profaci died. He might've believed it was his family whether the commission liked it or not which Bonanno could've also been putting in his ear.

Yeah I suspect Bonanno was in his ear. With regard to your first point, Magliocco credited Angelo Bruno with knowing more than him about how it all worked. I get the impression Magliocco wasn't particularly sharp when left to his own devices.

[OmarSantista]

Right, also Profaci and Magliocco both being from Villabate and Bruno being from Caltanissetta province makes it even that much more impressive & surprising for Bruno to be teaching someone closer to Palermo Centro and that someone not being taught that rule already. Or maybe he was taught and like you said B just wasn't sharp enough to retain such lessons "in so many words".

[B.]

I don't think heritage would play any role in their understanding that type of rule. As a longtime underboss you'd think Magliocco would know how the system worked, but the Family had no changes to boss/underboss for 30 years while Bruno had gone through his own election and confirmation as boss just years earlier. He personally went through the process he was explaining to Magliocco whereas Magliocco had never experienced it, at least not for decades. Magliocco may have also played dumb to justify his breaking the rules.

Heritage, especially back then, often did give someone a better understanding of the life and the system but only up to a point. And with Bruno, he didn't have the same insane number of relatives in the life when you compare him to Magliocco, but Bruno was from Villalba which was a mafia stronghold in its own right and Bruno was part of a mafia clan spanning multiple villages including Villalba, Vallelunga, and Villafrati that included bosses and he was related by marriage to another multi-generational clan in Philly. He was pretty much the same thing as Magliocco it was just "some relatives" who were mafia members/leaders instead of "every relative" like with Magliocco.