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Based on what's been found on Nino Rizzuto, might be closer to solving this mystery from the Magaddino tapes:
- Never made sense for the Montreal Rizzutos to be mentioned in this context.
- Nino Rizzuto was likely with the LaBruzzo crew so he'd be linked to the Bonanno faction. Magaddino brings up LaBruzzo immediately after the name Rizzuto is mentioned.
- If this is referring to Nino Rizzuto, it seems to be saying his brother and his brother's brother-in-law were members. The language/transcript could have gotten confused but "Loffa" makes a point to correct himself about the brother-in-law and adds that Rizzuto's brother is part of this group too.
- Nino Rizzuto (b. 1902) had 3 or 4 brothers and two of them were Jack (b. 1900, oldest son) and Frank (b. ~1916, youngest), but their arrival manifest shows two more sons named Innocenzo (b. ~1906) and Desiderato (b. ~1908). 1920 census shows only one son in that age range, Louis (b. ~1906). The 1930 census again shows only one son between Nino and Frank, Richard (b. ~1902, same year as Antonino but Nino is listed as born ~1900 so they are off all around).
- 1920 census suggests Innocenzo went by Louis in the US as their ages match perfectly, yet Richard's age doesn't fit either brother on the manifest and would lend itself to Innocenzo/Louis given he was older... unlikely he would use both "Louis" and "Richard" though. Richard would make more sense for Desiderato ("R" sound), yet the immigration manifest is the only place that lists two sons between Nino and Frank. The names, ages, and number of sons are a mess between records.
- Eldest brother Jack Rizzuto's wife was an Anello, same surname as Victor Anello from Castellammare who was a partner in the Bonventre & Anello business with Vito Bonventre. However Jack's wife was born in Missouri, while Victor and his parents were in Brooklyn at the same time with no obvious relation. Victor Anello definitely wasn't Jack Rizzuto's bro-in-law.
- Jack Rizzuto and his wife married in Jackson, MO, in 1931 then moved to New Orleans and Jack died there in 1957 so it isn't him referred to on the Magaddino tape given he was dead. Note, Jack Rizzuto had a son named Philip and there was a New Orleans associate named Phil Rizzuto but not sure the ages match.
- That leaves Innocenzo/Louis(?), Desiderato/Richard(?) and Frank Rizzuto as the possible Bonanno member. Frank was much younger (b. ~1916) so if he was a member he would more well-known to later sources but no guarantees w/ that stuff. If we could find out who these brothers married that'd help, as the alleged brother-in-law could be a member we already know.
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- The older Salvatore Marchese (b. 1888) married a Rizzuto sister, so he was a brother-in-law but the wording from "Loffa" suggests it was the brother-in-law of a specific brother, not necessarily one they share through their sister. I don't now that this Marchese was still alive and he would have been very old anyway.
- The Rizzuto brothers' younger sister married a Michael Restivo -- doesn't seem to be a direct relative of Biagio Restivo from Partanna as it looks like these ones came from Camporeale and Michael's mother's surname was Rizzuto so probably yet another cousin. A manifest links the Rizzutos' father to Restivos from Camporeale. Maybe a coincidence but Biagio Restivo did associate with this crowd.
- A first cousin of Nino Rizzuto married an Antonio Scardino. She looks to be a double cousin of Rizzuto, as their mothers were sisters and their fathers share a surname. Bonanno member Thomas Scardino had a brother named Antonio but this Scardino wasn't a brother of Thomas and was older. Interesting side note, but member Thomas Scardino's father Angelo arrived to the US from Camporeale in 1897 and listed his "relation" Antonino Governale as his arrival contact. Governale was an alleged uncle of early Bonanno bosses Paolo Orlando and Nicolo Schiro, ID'd in the Informer article -- appears most of the later Camporealesi in the Bonanno Family have ties to the Orlando-Schiro-Governale clan.
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Dizzying number of possibilities and hard to sort out the younger Rizzuto brothers. Best bet is if we can ID the brothers' wives.
