Joseph Lanni alleged new Gambino boss

[furiofromnaples]

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/ma ... -york.html

For the italian police after a memo that the FBI alleged send them the new Gambino boss should be Joseph Lanni.
For me the boss is Dominick Cefalù and this is only a rumor.

[scagghiuni]

the fbi alerted italian police because lanni is strongly linked with the sicilian mafia, but he's not the boss, not even a captain, probably joe gambino is the capo of 18th avenue

[TommyGambino]

the fbi alerted italian police because lanni is strongly linked with the sicilian mafia, but he's not the boss, not even a captain, probably joe gambino is the capo of 18th avenue

Felice had the documents from the bust, Lanni is capo of 18th ave

[Dr031718]

the fbi alerted italian police because lanni is strongly linked with the sicilian mafia, but he's not the boss, not even a captain, probably joe gambino is the capo of 18th avenue

Felice had the documents from the bust, Lanni is capo of 18th ave

We’re these posted in the forum?

[JohnnyS]

As Tommy said, Lanni is the 18th ave captain. It's in those documents that some of the guys like Tommaso Gambino are under him. It's a common mistake in Italian media.

[JohnnyS]

Here's the full article from the original source (la repubblica) that reported Lanni as boss. As you can see, he's referred to as the 'captain' in those docs. Go figure.

PALERMO - New York has a new godfather. The heir of John Gotti and Frank Calì, the bosses who have made the Gambino family increasingly influential, despite the arrests and trials. Now, it's time for another rampant Italian-American at the head of the clan: his name is Joseph Lanni, warns the FBI, which in recent months has sent a confidential note to the central police operational service to take stock of the latest movements of the "captain", the captain. He is a man of great business and mystery, Lanni, born in 1971. Certainly the most anomalous of the Gambino family chiefs, brother of a private investigator, whose wife is the daughter of an entrepreneur of many relationships in New York.

Ten years ago, when he was not yet the "captain" he was investigated with Frank Calì's brother-in-law, Pietro Inzerillo, "tall Pete" as they call him, "Pietro il lungo": they had set up a modern online betting site, the The process went very slowly and someone in the press suspected that the enterprising and reserved Joseph Lanni had fielded his friendships. For sure, one day in prison he didn't. And after the death of Frank Calì, killed a year ago by a young man for a trivial dispute, the undisputed captain seems to be him. In fact, it seems that the formal investiture had already received it in 2018, but the voice of Frank Calì continued to count. Now, Joseph Lanni manages in his own way. And there is a great ferment between New York and Sicily. As if there were only one big family: the "losers" of the eighties, the exiles in the States from Totò Riina after the mafia war, want to recover Palermo. With investments still not entirely clear.


Last July, the Palermo mobile team triggered a blitz, 19 members of the old families were arrested: one of Lanni's most trusted offspring, Thomas Gambino, also ended up in handcuffs. But not even a month later he was released from the Review court, because the evidence was not considered sufficient. Among the prosecution papers, there was also an FBI report that told of the particular activism of the 48-year-old Scion of Staten Island: "Joseph Gambino's son - wrote American investigators - is indicated as the main collector of the illegal proceeds generated by illegal gaming machines installed at various bars and social clubs in Brooklyn, from which he derives a large part of his income. " But it was not enough. And the release of one of the captain's most trusted men, who meanwhile took a plane back to the United States, sounded like a mockery. With a welcome party. Who knows what message he had arrived in Palermo: the policemen had photographed him while taking a boat trip off Mondello with other members of the Inzerillo clan. For police investigators, a full-blown summit, away from prying eyes and mischief. For Thomas Gambino's lawyers, just a trip to the beach with old friends and relatives. In court, they also brought photos of that day, including dives and swims, sandwiches and beer.

But the investigation between Palermo and New York continues. In January, the anti-mafia parliamentary commission was also away to the United States. And at the end of the hearings with magistrates and investigators, President Nicola Morra said about the relationship between Palermo and New York: "The investigations highlight the desire to restore those ties that in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were stable and strong. " But today the path seems different. "There are to understand - President Morra explained - the levels of interaction and integration between the Cosa Nostra that once dictated the American scenario, the 'Ndrangheta that comes from Canada and other foreign mafias". Here it is, the mission of the last head of the Gambino family. A new network of alliances, in the name of business.

[Griz23]

Joseph Lanni is the guy that still has charges pending from an arrest years before right?

[Southshore88]

I do remember reading that on here recently

[B.]

The word "capo" translates to "head", synonymous with "boss", and traditionally the boss of a mafia family was called the "capo". This would explain the translation error, as "capo" now means capodecina/captain in the US and could be easily confused when interpreted by Italians.

[felice]

It was obviously a misunderstood. Lanni is just indicated as acting captain of the 18th ave crew

[TommyGambino]

It was obviously a misunderstood. Lanni is just indicated as acting captain of the 18th ave crew

Oh he's just acting captain? Not saw you mention it previously

[Pete]

The word "capo" translates to "head", synonymous with "boss", and traditionally the boss of a mafia family was called the "capo". This would explain the translation error, as "capo" now means capodecina/captain in the US and could be easily confused when interpreted by Italians.

Interesting I recall hearing caporegime actually indicated boss in Italian instead Of captain

[scagghiuni]

The word "capo" translates to "head", synonymous with "boss", and traditionally the boss of a mafia family was called the "capo". This would explain the translation error, as "capo" now means capodecina/captain in the US and could be easily confused when interpreted by Italians.

Interesting I recall hearing caporegime actually indicated boss in Italian instead Of captain

the authors of the article will have read that he is a boss in an american one and they thought he was the boss..in the sicilian mafia capomandamento, capofamiglia and capodecina are different ranks

[Angelo Santino]

The word "capo" translates to "head", synonymous with "boss", and traditionally the boss of a mafia family was called the "capo". This would explain the translation error, as "capo" now means capodecina/captain in the US and could be easily confused when interpreted by Italians.

Interesting I recall hearing caporegime actually indicated boss in Italian instead Of captain

Capo... In Sicily that is a term for boss, in the USA it's applied to captain. Zooming out, reporters in the USA, especially in the 70's referred to certain captains as bosses, for instance Franzese was referred to "as a boss in the Colombo Family" in the 1980's. So if Joseph Lanni is a captain in the Gambinos, it's not incorrect to label him "a boss IN the Gambino Family."

Caporegime appears to have been an American term, the original middle management term in Sicily was "capo decina" which is still used in the US interchangably with caporegime, captain, capo, skipper etc.

[JeremyTheJew]

So correct to assume he was under Mannino and took over when Mannino is said to have stepped up??