Anybody got information on Frank Balistrieri before he was made boss?

he was in law school before he was in the mob

Joseph Pistone said the following:

"He had some education, wasn’t a “dese-and-dose” type."

i heard lefty ruggiero was intimidated by him according to pistone

Lefty says, "He can be moody, nasty. Frank can be maybe Jekyll and Hyde, a man who can be a fucking animal. He don’t forget."

Donnie Brasco asks if Frank Balistrieri has any say in New York and Lefty replies "He's got say all over the world. Mostly that's all over this country. You kidding me? They got the Commission. They settle everything. He was on it. The last war, him and the Chicago boss kicked Joe Bonanno out. He knows all the bosses. When he used to go to New York, he'd go to the Old Man's house, Gambino's. Equal boss."

And Donnie asks how Frank and Carmine Galante get along and Lefty replies, "They love each other, I'm a-scared of him
sometimes."

Were his sons lawyers, I believe I read that in Pistone's book. Is there a family still active in that part of country since Balistirieri went down ?

Frank's sons Joe and John are both lawyers. And I think that the Milwaukee family is fading away. The Chicago Outfit owns big parts of Milwaukee.

When my friend ran wrestling shows at The Rave in 1998-2000 he dealt with a woman at the venue whose last name was Balistrieri. We always wondered if she was a relative, but of course, we never asked.

i didn't know he had as much power as he did

A book on the Milwaukee Mafia written by Gavin Schmitt is just out...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738594431/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_BtXFqb1V29C67

I actually have the nerve to say that Frank was equal to the bosses of the five families of New York. His family wasn't as big, but he stayed much more under the radar than the other families, and isn't that what the game is all about? In my opinion, true organized crime is a smaller group of idea men. The five families has gotten so big, that the bosses can't control it. But in Milwaukee or any other smaller organization, they can overlook everything, and take care of the problem on the spot. And like Lefty himself said, Frank has good contact with the bosses of other families. He said that Frank And Carmine Galante loved each other, and that he occasionally meets up with Carlo Gambino. That is true ORGANIZED crime.

the only problem with that is they eventually become a defunct family

How many did Frank Balistrieri actually kill in car bombings? Anybody got a valid source?