The Wedding of Jeanne Bruno and Ralph Puppo, August 1962

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Prior to the wedding, Angelo Bruno and Peter Maggio (who according to informant PH 623-C, is the only individual from whom he accepts advice) discussed plans for the wedding and they agreed that most of the Philadelphia Family would be present at the wedding and would number approximately 75. After a quick skim thought the guests (link below), I can only identify 50-55 members, so, there may be some unidentified members on the list.

Bruno indicated that both he and his wife disliked future son-in-law Ralph Puppo (son of member Orlando Puppo) due to him being immature, having no income and his plans for the future not being known by Bruno.
Orlando Puppo’s father-in-law was possible early member Vincenzo Geraci 1884-1962. A daughter of Geraci, Josephine, married Victor Bruno (Angelo’s brother).

Bruno told an informant that it is no longer considered necessary to invite the “commission members” to the wedding of an area boss. AB continued to say, however, that he would invite Carlo Gambino, Santo Trafficante, and Steve Magaddino, but it would be necessary for him to recommend they do not come to the wedding.

On July 24th 1962, an informant, a Postal Inspector made available the names and addresses of envelopes of wedding invitations which bore the return address of Mr and Mrs Angelo Anthony Bruno.

Alfred Iezzi, Frank Nicoletti and John Cappello were given invitations to hand deliver to selected friends. Cappello was given six to distribute to members of the ‘Pete Casella group.’

On Aug 26th 1962, Jeanne Bruno married Ralph Puppo.

The wedding congregation was comprised primarily of females except for the prominent males Mario, Peter and Salvatore Maggio, Russell Bufalino, Dominic Pollina (interesting, due to their differences only a few years earlier), Calogero Sinatra and Frank Matteo.

Notable LCN wedding attendees from out of area were Mr and Mrs Sam Rangatore, (related to Angelo Bruno’s wife's family), Mr and Mrs Russell Bufalino, Mr and Mrs Sam DeCavalcante (and guests, family members), Calogero Sinatra (cousin of AB) and Angelo and Salvatore Marino of San Jose (related through marriage to Maggios).

Photographs were taken at the wedding of Jeanne Bruno at the church of the Epiphany of Our Lord by agents. Amongst others, around 20 LCN members were photographed. These photos are ‘on file.’ Could these photos be requested? I believe Angelo Bruno’s daughter is still alive, so I assume not.

This link details all the wedding guests, reception guests and table arrangements.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.htm ... h_Puppo%22

Special treatment is given to Sam DeCavalcante who has a table of ten to himself and his family, whilst Tony Caponigro is given nine of the ten places for him and his family (plus Mrs Frank Nicoletti. Frank Nicoletti is sat on another table). Most other guests are sat with their partners or associates. Joseph Maggio did not attend.

AB indicated he intended to keep the guest list down to 300, but to include all his friends, they numbered 600. Furthermore, only 65 of 600 invited were from the groom's side of the family.
Regarding wedding gifts, 'redacted' stated "you could count on a relative giving between $25-$50 and from your friend $50-$100". 'Redacted' goes on to say he "sorted all the envelopes bearing the money gifts, arranged them alphabetically by name of the giver, and listed the amount each person gave on each envelope, commenting, "You have to consider this a loan." He indicated he also received 200 envelopes from people invited who could not attend, each bearing a sum of money. Charles Delmonico, son of Charles Tourine attended the wedding and carried from Florida several envelopes bearing gifts from ‘friends’ of Bruno from that area.

Side note - do we know who/what PH 623-C is? I know Chin suggested it was an office bug on a different thread, In the report where the bulk of the above info is from, the informant is given three 'T' numbers to 'afford better concealment.' This seems slightly odd if PH 623-C is a bug, or maybe it's not?
The extract which intrigues me is, "T-5 (PH 623-C) reported that Bruno apparently confides with Peter Maggio and is the only individual from whom he accepts advice." This seems like strange wording if the intel has come from a bug within a building.

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EDIT:
A quick bit of research confirms that:
PH-623-C – Penn Vending company
PH 591-C – Maggio Cheese company - three separate offices

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PH 623-C* is a confirmed bug that went into place in February 1962. The FBI did a lot to try and make bugs seem like they were person-sourced informants including masking them with multiple T numbers and phrasing the info as it if it were supplied by a person.

Along with Rangatore's wife's family being from Villalba and related to Bruno, his son went to school in Philly and he had a longstanding association with Simone going back to Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Rangatore and Simone were arrested together in Scranton in the mid-1930s.