What are the biggest unanswered questions you have?

[jimmyb]

There are a couple of things related to the "Bananas War" I would really like to know:

*We know that JB asked the Buccellatos for help during the Bananas War and Castellammare sent 12 shooters to NY. Six of the guys stayed in Brooklyn. Presumably they became part of the Bonanno org. One of the guys was Pino D'Aquanno. I'd really like to know who the other five guys were.

*The murder of Gaspare Magaddino in 1970. Gaspare took JB's side in the Bananas War. This was interesting because Gaspare and Stefano were first cousins. Gaspare was probably involved in the Cypress Gardens Massacre. As a result, it's tempting to think Stefano Magaddino and the DiGregorio faction ordered the hit. The problem is: 1970 is prob too late for retaliation. The Banana conflict was over by then. So who hit Gaspare Magaddino? The timeline is interesting, because remember there were Castellammarese (zips) active in Brooklyn. My theory is the orders came from CDG. Gaspare was the capomafia when he fled to the United States. This was a good opportunity to make sure he could never return to Sicily and resume power.

[B.]

There are a couple of things related to the "Bananas War" I would really like to know:

*We know that JB asked the Buccellatos for help during the Bananas War and Castellammare sent 12 shooters to NY. Six of the guys stayed in Brooklyn. Presumably they became part of the Bonanno org. One of the guys was Pino D'Aquanno. I'd really like to know who the other five guys were.

*The murder of Gaspare Magaddino in 1970. Gaspare took JB's side in the Bananas War. This was interesting because Gaspare and Stefano were first cousins. Gaspare was probably involved in the Cypress Gardens Massacre. As a result, it's tempting to think Stefano Magaddino and the DiGregorio faction ordered the hit. The problem is: 1970 is prob too late for retaliation. The Banana conflict was over by then. So who hit Gaspare Magaddino? The timeline is interesting, because remember there were Castellammarese (zips) active in Brooklyn. My theory is the orders came from CDG. Gaspare was the capomafia when he fled to the United States. This was a good opportunity to make sure he could never return to Sicily and resume power.

Good questions for sure.

He could have been killed by someone close to one of the people he murdered in the US but probably not. Crazy that a Sicilian boss was in the US participating in hits. You had both Peter and Gaspare siding with their cousin JB against their other cousin. Shows how blood ties can get pushed aside.

I assume you've read the transcripts of Stefano talking to Paul Sciacca and the unidentified "Bill Loffa"? JB was no doubt an egomaniac who was high on himself, but after reading those transcripts his take on Magaddino during that time sounds spot on. Magaddino seemed to take everything Bonanno did as a personal insult and/or attempt to outdo him, even Bill Bonanno's wedding. When Magliocco confessed to the Commission that he had conspired with Joe Bonanno against Lucchese/Gambino, he supposedly also implicated Magaddino, which Magaddino denied. Seems he believed he could play games from his position up in Niagara Falls without worrying about the repercussions.

You made me think about an unanswered question I've had for a while, too... who was the real architect behind the Pizza Connection as far as the Bonannos are concerned? Does it go back to the alleged meetings in Italy with JB himself and Galante? Galante might get too much credit for heading the operations when he got out of prison. My hunch is that it was Natale Evola who was managing what would later become the Pizza Connection and that Galante just picked up where Evola left off.

[Pogo The Clown]

Who carried out the murders of Ronnie Turchi, Long John Martorano and Johnny Gongs? Several names have been implicated but nothing concrete. I'm sure in time we will get the asnwers to these.


Who were the two gunmen who tried to kill Mike Ciancaglini in 1992? Mike suspected his brother Joey Chang as one of them but who was the other?


Pogo