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[Rocco]

Ironically Massino went to prison for labor racketeering.

Re the Lucchese Family Defede said that the Luccheses were only pulling in 6 mil a year when he was AB. Was that the money that was turned in to the administration?

That's the $$ that was handed to him by the Capo's when he was acting boss. Remember some of those Capo's probably all started giving him less when he became acting boss. And I think he was marked for death because Crea was giving Admin twice as much so they thought DeFede was stealing...lol The Capo's prob just didn't respect DeFede and didn't give him shit. The NJ Luchese crew in 2007 grossed 2.2Billion in bets in 15months. Which means they netted min 4% ($88million) which was split up amongst everyone in the crew and the Admin in NY. Even when factoring in todays money VS 1990s money. DeFede was getting screwed by his capo's which was why he was marked for death. Also during that time the Feds were leaning hard on the family and their rackets because of Casso's lack of mental control. So with that said...maybe DeFede was telling the truth. I think the Capo's were robbing him though.

[Wiseguy]

Ironically Massino went to prison for labor racketeering.

Re the Lucchese Family Defede said that the Luccheses were only pulling in 6 mil a year when he was AB. Was that the money that was turned in to the administration?

Yeah that was IBT Local 814 (movers union), one of the few labor interests the Bonannos had at that point.

It's not that the family has never been involved in the unions. They were involved in the garment center early on.
Then the Local 814 case years later. More recently you had the Bonanno case involving IBT Local 917. And there's been some construction companies with Bonanno ties.

But it seems the other families took advantage of of Joe Bonanno getting ousted to edge the family out of most labor rackets afterwards.

[Angelo Santino]

It's kinda hard to make any definitive statement regarding Gagliano because there's so little known about him. We have the snippet of Valachi, Bonanno and maybe one or two other references but it's a very small amount considering he had a 20 year run as Boss and quite possibly been involved for a long time before that. Prior to Casso/Amuso that network appears to be quite stable but who's really to say? Not to sound like Thom but if a woman's mobster husband is a Lucchese member and she's too fucking dull to realize that, is he truly a Lucchese mobster? And Pic's a made guy!

[AlexfromSouth]

this is of topic, and i'm sorry in front but was Corallo sicilian or what? Can't find that last ame anywhere

[BillyBrizzi]

this is of topic, and i'm sorry in front but was Corallo sicilian or what? Can't find that last ame anywhere

The name is by far the most prevalent on Sicily: http://www.italianames.com/italian-names-maps/CORALLO

[Wiseguy]

Yeah a reason why I brought this up is because it seems the Luccheses had evolved the most. The Colombos were primarily a Brooklyn family that only decreased in power since the 60's. The Bonnanos never got into the white collar rackets amd have stayed very insular.

In fact didn't Joe Massino say about the labour rackets something to the effect of "let's not do anymore of that. we don't need to get into that"

He told his guys to stay out of the gas tax scam. But they were involved in the stock scams. He also said something to the effect of "We really have nothing to do with the unions." Which was mostly true, at least relative to the other families.

[AlexfromSouth]

this is of topic, and i'm sorry in front but was Corallo sicilian or what? Can't find that last ame anywhere

The name is by far the most prevalent on Sicily: http://www.italianames.com/italian-names-maps/CORALLO

Thank you very much I couldnt find that kind of thing..Thank you once again.
Is it know what area of east harlem was he from?Found somewhere that there were a lot of sicilians around east 107th st...where the lucchese's whe HQ.