RUMOR HAS IT

[Ivan]

That generation of wiseguys is going to be dropping like flies in the coming decade or so (especially in Chicago). The fallout of that will be interesting to watch.

There's a LOT of key guys about that age in all the extant families.

[beans]

still wiseguys in chicago? no busts makes me think they went legit.

[Frank]

still wiseguys in chicago? no busts makes me think they went legit.

A couple of Union related busts last year.

[beans]

still wiseguys in chicago? no busts makes me think they went legit.

A couple of Union related busts last year.

oh. nice.

[Fughedaboutit]

Longtime Genovese Wiseguy Who Was Street Boss and Consiglieri Died, Sources Say

By Ed Scarpo Sunday, March 04, 2018

EXCLUSIVE
Longtime Genovese crime family capo Peter (Petey Red) DiChiara, who reputedly was the street boss, or front boss, for Liborio Bellomo, died Friday (March 2), two separate sources confirmed.

DiChiara, who allegedly also was the Genovese crime family's consiglieri, had diabetes and other medical problems associated with the disease.

DiChiara, 75, ran a social club in Lower Manhattan at 73 Market Street, which has been around since the 1990s. Except for the five-year period when DiChiara was serving time for a federal racketeering beef thanks to the associate with the funny Rolex, the club was known to have been a busy place, though the patrons reportedly had grown to ecompass more than members of Petey Red's crew, supposedly a sign of DiChiara's rise in the hierarchy to draw fire away from Bellomo, the official boss. (Bellomo was named to the acting slot in the 1980s by Vincent "Chin" Gigante himself.)

In January 2016, DiChiara, was relaying messages for Bellomo "to and from capos and important family soldiers," as Jerry Capeci reported on Gang Land News.

"The arrangement is similar to one long employed by the cagey Gigante who long fooled the law about his mob role by having Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno serve as the "upfront" boss for his crime clan, while keeping below the radar himself."

Petey Red's law enforcement problems began in 2002 thanks to Michael (Cookie) Durso, who collected dirt on more than 70 Genovese wiseguys, including Gigante, (who died in a prison hospital on December 19, 2005).


Also nabbed as part of the years-long probe was then-acting boss Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo, Barney Bellomo, Frank (Farby) Serpico and Ernest Muscarella, Rosario (Ross) Gangi, Alan (Baldie) Longo, Sammy (Meatballs) Aparo and DiChiara.

Then identified as a capo, Petey Red faced an array of racketeering charges related to running loansharking gambling, extortion, labor bribery, and a major check cashing racket.

As Gang Land News also reported in 2016, "DiChiara, who has diabetes, hasn't been well. One feared he may have been hospitalized, but that could not be confirmed."

DEVELOPING....

He got that news off the forums lol

[Confederate]

That generation of wiseguys is going to be dropping like flies in the coming decade or so (especially in Chicago). The fallout of that will be interesting to watch.

There's a LOT of key guys about that age in all the extant families.

Agree 100%. I truly believe the Outfit will be one of the 3 Families that will be gone next.
They are:
1). Detroit
2). New England
3). Chicago

Philly & New Jersey will hang on longer simply because they are closer to New York and are working related to the New York 5 Families.
Also, South Philly seems to be a relatively strong recruiting ground, not like years ago, but not bad.

[johnny_scootch]

He got that news off the forums lol

If by forums you mean bronx that's absolutely possible.

[Ivan]

Also, South Philly seems to be a relatively strong recruiting ground, not like years ago, but not bad.

Yeah, they seem to have an inexhaustible supply of young Italian-American kids who want to get involved. It's uncanny. Sometimes it feels like they are more youthful than the New York families.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Sometimes it feels like they are more youthful than the New York families.

NY still has the luxury of making guys at a latter age. Philly to sustain, even survive has to make guys earlier.

[yatescj7781]

Sometimes it feels like they are more youthful than the New York families.

NY still has the luxury of making guys at a latter age. Philly to sustain, even survive has to make guys earlier.

especially when you kill off a third of your members in the 80s and 90s.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Sometimes it feels like they are more youthful than the New York families.

NY still has the luxury of making guys at a latter age. Philly to sustain, even survive has to make guys earlier.

especially when you kill off a third of your members in the 80s and 90s.

Civil wars generally fuck families up for a generation or two. Refer Columbo’s and Philly.

[yatescj7781]

Sometimes it feels like they are more youthful than the New York families.

NY still has the luxury of making guys at a latter age. Philly to sustain, even survive has to make guys earlier.

especially when you kill off a third of your members in the 80s and 90s.

Civil wars generally fuck families up for a generation or two. Refer Columbo’s and Philly.

Especially a smaller family outside of NY. The NY families have enough numbers to weather through the occasional war. When you have a family half of the size of the smallest NY family then it is very detrimental. It speaks volumes of the South Philly guys belief in "The Life" that they aren't extinct right now. They are a vibrant and functioning family. Until the next rat of course.

[gohnjotti]

The Colombos are still reeling from the war today. The Joseph Scopo hit was the reason why Anthony Russo flipped in 2011 and helped take down the entire admin.