Basciano: My objective over here was for Joe Massino, not for Vinny Basciano. I put everybody together as a tough guy and told everybody that this is for you, it's not me. I made certain decisions over there to avoid all the bullshit of comin'back and forth in the can and I hadda make them in street. I told everybody, these decisions that I'm making aren't set in stone. If Joe wants to change 'em, he changes them. I'm doin' this right now for the good of this [borgata]. Everybody agreed. Michael Nose says Vinny, you know somethin'? I'm proud of ya. ...
Massino: Well, there's somethin' wrong now because...
Basciano then tried to explain the problems with Mancuso.
Basciano: The problem is over here, the first message I think that went out. What happened was, Michael might have moved too fast...after I got pinched, he went to Dominick and he started askin' Dominick questions about what I had goin' on the street. Dominick caught a delusion 'casue I know they had an argument.
Massino: Okay, okay.
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/2010/10/massino-tapes-part-3.htmlBasciano: Michael is lookin' for his day in the sun. I put Michael there with your consent, and I appreciated Michael"s...
Massino: No, you didn't put Michael there with my consent, you did it on your own.
Basciano: Well, I sent word afterwards.
Massino: After you did it, what good is that? Well I'm goona be straight up with ya.
Basciano: Yea.
Massino: I wouldn't do that to you....
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/2010/10/during-january-7-2005-jailhouse.htmlBasciano: They had to check with me.
Massino: Yeah, but you don't have to check with them.
Basciano: No.
Massino: Why? What makes the difference...you understand where I'm coming from?
Basciano: ...What I did what I tried to do, Joe, I tried to give a structure because everybody was all over the fuckin' board. And what I did, by me taking the reigns, I annointed myself, through you, as acting boss. I made Michael acting underboss and Anthony acting consiglieri. I told everybody nobody makes a move without coming to me....
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/2010/10/massino-tapes-part-4.htmlCicale testified that Basciano had considered ordering the murders of Michael "The Nose" Mancuso, a then-Bonanno captain seen as a dangerous rival, and Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the family's former underboss, because he was suspected of being a government rat.
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/2011/05/bonnano-turncoats-take-stand-to-help.htmlAfter Mr. Massino told Mr. Basciano that he did not want to be blamed for Mr. Pizzolo’s murder, Mr. Basciano said, “We didn’t do it.”
Later on, Mr. Basciano said that another Bonanno acting boss, Michael Mancuso — whom he referred to as Michael Nose — ordered the hit on Mr. Pizzolo, who was found shot to death in Brooklyn in December 2004.
“It wasn’t me,” Mr. Basciano said. “You know what I’m saying?”
Even this seeming cleansing of the hands had, according to Mr. Massino, another meaning in the underworld.
“It wasn’t him, but it really was him,” Mr. Massino said of how he interpreted Mr. Basciano’s statement.
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