Coke and a slice was their daily special.

[East Bronx]

If your born 1959 means you're my parents generation. I better call you "uncle"...

Yeah, call me Zee Bee .

[antimafia]

American law enforcement's intelligence about the Siderno Group ('ndrangheta) in North America was more fulsome than Canadian law enforcement's in the 1960s. In fact, were it not for American intelligence, Canada's agencies would not have known in the 1960s about the existence of the Siderno Group. In 1972, though, a report published by the Ontario Police Commission showed that law enforcement in Ontario was getting better at gathering information about this North American crime group. The report speculated there were locales (sic) in the Flushing-Corona areas, which were known to have large numbers of Calabrian-Americans who settled there.

Does anyone know whether the Gigliottis, apart from having a restaurant in Corona, also lived in Queens?

It's not 1955 anymore. These women don't get dragged in to anything. Most of them grow up with fathers, uncles, brothers, cousins all doing drug trafficking. Its all they know and its the livelihood the family depends on. They help because outsiders are more likely to flip or cheat. Its not the first time such a thing has been discovered. In the investigation which found Piromalli cosca was doing drug trafficking through Philadelphia port they found on one wiretap the sister laughing and joking with her brother about drug trafficking.

toto, do you know whether the links between the Philadelphia Family and Girolamo Piromalli himself may have begun as early as the 1960s or 1970s? Paolo Violi (murdered in 1978 in Montreal) had an uncle in Philadelphia, named "Michelino" (first name, I'm fairly certain), who apparently had access to Angelo Bruno. I don't know whether this uncle was the brother of Violi's father or mother--I'm thinking the latter.

[toto]

No links to Philadelphia family. The wiretaps didn't mention it. Also, according to our fellow poster Pogo, Philadelphia family didn't have any presence at Philadelphia port even in the past let alone now.

[antimafia]

^^^^
Thanks for clarifying, toto.