“Mafia Takedown” by Mike Campi

[Wiseguy]

ty chin. you give such great cliff notes. probaly tge reason I think the last book I read was little Al's book 10yrs ago or the leonetti book. I still think I'm gonna read. kids take all my free time. when I'm posting on here I'm definitely taking a shit hiding in my cell from my babys or at work in a machine or porta

This sounds like me...

Ditto

[Browniety86]

Thank you for the synopsis Chin...Excellent work as always that is much appreciated...

[CornerBoy]

looks jeff nado lifted his latest story from this!

[InCamelot]

looks jeff nado lifted his latest story from this!

Jesus. Saw the headline and hoped he wasn't stealing from chin

[Proletarian187]

He's gonna claim he's reading the book and that it's just a coincidence. He has plausible deniability on this one, but we all know he took it from here.. That guy doesn't read books or do his own research. Guess it's time for another public meltdown.

[PolackTony]

Really excellent synopsis here, Chin. Yet again, we are all in your debt.

- Jimmy Ida’s parents were from the north of Italy

I haven’t read the book yet myself, so I don’t know if Campi referenced a source for this claim, or if he was just piggybacking off of what Wikipedia has for Ida. Wikipedia has the unsourced claim that Ida’s parents were both form Lombardia. I had looked into this myself a while back and concluded that it was totally false. Presuming that I had the right people, which I believe I did, Jimmy Ida’s parents were both born in NYC to Southern Ital families. His paternal grandparents were from Scilla, Reggio Calabria while his maternal family, surname Quaranto, was from Matera province, Basilicata. Wikipedia has also had guys like Aniello Dellacroce and Fish Cafaro as being of Northern Ital heritage, also erroneously.

[HairyKnuckles]

Really excellent synopsis here, Chin. Yet again, we are all in your debt.

- Jimmy Ida’s parents were from the north of Italy

I haven’t read the book yet myself, so I don’t know if Campi referenced a source for this claim, or if he was just piggybacking off of what Wikipedia has for Ida. Wikipedia has the unsourced claim that Ida’s parents were both form Lombardia. I had looked into this myself a while back and concluded that it was totally false. Presuming that I had the right people, which I believe I did, Jimmy Ida’s parents were both born in NYC to Southern Ital families. His paternal grandparents were from Scilla, Reggio Calabria while his maternal family, surname Quaranto, was from Matera province, Basilicata. Wikipedia has also had guys like Aniello Dellacroce and Fish Cafaro as being of Northern Ital heritage, also erroneously.

Tony, an early Genovese member was named Joseph Ida. I suspect this Joseph Ida to be the more known Ida brothers´ father or possibly grand father. Do you remember the name of their father? If the old member Joseph Ida indeed was their father or grand father it makes it more unlikely that the Idas had roots in Lombardia. No early NY Mafia members, to my knowledge, had roots in the northen parts of Italy.

[PolackTony]

Really excellent synopsis here, Chin. Yet again, we are all in your debt.

- Jimmy Ida’s parents were from the north of Italy

I haven’t read the book yet myself, so I don’t know if Campi referenced a source for this claim, or if he was just piggybacking off of what Wikipedia has for Ida. Wikipedia has the unsourced claim that Ida’s parents were both form Lombardia. I had looked into this myself a while back and concluded that it was totally false. Presuming that I had the right people, which I believe I did, Jimmy Ida’s parents were both born in NYC to Southern Ital families. His paternal grandparents were from Scilla, Reggio Calabria while his maternal family, surname Quaranto, was from Matera province, Basilicata. Wikipedia has also had guys like Aniello Dellacroce and Fish Cafaro as being of Northern Ital heritage, also erroneously.

Tony, an early Genovese member was named Joseph Ida. I suspect this Joseph Ida to be the more known Ida brothers´ father or possibly grand father. Do you remember the name of their father? If the old member Joseph Ida indeed was their father or grand father it makes it more unlikely that the Idas had roots in Lombardia. No early NY Mafia members, to my knowledge, had roots in the northen parts of Italy.

I’d have to go back and look at some notes and such, which I’m not able to now. But Jimmy and Joe Ida’s dad was named Giuseppe/Joseph Idà, born around 1915 in NYC to Calabrian parents, again if I am correct on the genealogy here.

Idà is a distinctively Calabrese surname and not a very common one (I believe it is of Greek derivation and derived from the Greek word eidos, “image”, as is the related Calabrian surname Idone). Also worth noting that Philly boss Giuseppe Idà was from Fiumara, which directly neighbors Scilla, where these Idàs were from. The area is of course historically a major center of the Calabrian Camorra/‘ndrangheta.

[sdeitche]

Fantastic synopsis Chin.

You have to wonder how much more successful these guys would've been if they redirected all that energy over petty personal beefs into more productive criminal things like ways to make money!

Interesting take from Aparo on why he thinks Eboli was killed, re: Catena. It's something I suspected, and certainly Catena would have been known before it happened regardless.

[Pmac2]

I'm leaning catena to not that bullshit eboli borrowed 2million dollars from carlo gambino for a drug deal. it was internal house cleaning. I'm guessing catena held a beef against eboli from the 60tys when he thought he was above catena. anyway catena must have told Benny squint take him out he'll always be a thorn in your side. that's a interesting take by aparo

[TSNYC]

- campi alleges Sonny Franzese was involved in the DeCicco hit. He said that he had information that Barney, while in prison, told Sonny that Chin loved Sonny for helping on that hit.

I've re-read that passage a few times and the wording is a little confusing but I don't think that's what Campi is claiming.


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To me this reads as Bellomo told Franzese in prison that he (Bellomo) had been involved in the DeCicco murder. Gigante loved Bellomo because of this and made him acting boss after the murder. Franzese then told this story to other Colombo members.

Just finished it. Agreed. This part confused me. He’s not a great writer. But seems he’s saying Barney was involved in the hit.

[NorthBuffalo]

Great write up Chin. Does anyone know the 'Joey Massi' made alongside Barone from Detroit?

[scott22]

Joseph “Beach Bum Joe” Massei

Detroit LCN Capo in Miami from 1935-1970 ish

Half Irish and half Italian

Scott