B. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:49 am
Yep, I know the document you mean. I will find it when I have time but it was Angelo Bruno recorded saying that Ida wanted to create a decina of the Philadelphia Family in Calabria as he had some young men there he wanted to recruit. However Bruno said Ida would have to get permission from the Sicilian mafia to form the decina. Would have been pretty crazy for the Philly Family to have a decina in Calabria led by a former boss haha.
Magaddino mentions both Ida and Rugnetta at some point, I believe when they were discussing Canada. It is vague but I will find that too when I have a chance. I don't know what their relationship was to Costello but both of them were close to Anastasia.
Two of Anastasia's closest associates until the 1950s were the Macri brothers in NYC, Jimmy and Benny Macri. Jimmy Macri may have been a Gambino capodecina and Benny was likely a member. They were of course Calabrian and Jimmy Macri's daughter married the son of Tony Ripepi, important Calabrian capodecina in Pittsburgh.
These days, I am reading Addio Cosa Nostra, Buscetta's memoirs edited by Pino Arlacchi and it is about Anastasia/Ida and Cosa Nostra in Calabria. So I'm restarting this conversation here
Buscetta says that in 1956 Anastasia commissioned Ida to organize "Cosche" in Calabria. Ida would have addressed Luciano, but Luciano having no power in Italy he would have addressed Gioacchino Pennino and asked him to accompany him to Calabria. Buscetta adds that Pennino asked him to accompany him and that Ida was also at this meeting.
La Cupola does not yet exist but another meeting in Sicily with other higher-ranking mafiosi took place and it was decided that 2 Cosche would be created in Calabria. We can legitimately think that Calogero Sinatra was one of the attendees
Buscetta says Antonio Macri (Siderno), Girolamo Piromalli (Gioia Tauro) & Paolo De Stefano (Reggio Calabria) were members. I find it a little hard to believe that De Stefano was a member so early and that he doesn't talk about his boss, Domenico Tripodo, but why not. He also adds that things stagnated during the First Mafia War in 1963. It seems that the main activity of the Calabrians with Cosa Nostra was cigarette smuggling, at least until 1967 and the Locri massacr. Short version of the the story, Antonio Macri had Domenico Cordi killed, accusing him of having scammed him on a cigarette shipment, the massacre left 3 dead including a "civilian". Two Sicilians were suspected of the hit