Originally Posted by Njein
Originally Posted by chin_gigante
By May 1981 the captains were:

Cesare Bonventre
Salvatore Catalano
Nicholas DiStefano
Salvatore Ferrugia (also served as acting boss)
Philip Giaccone
Santo Giordano
Alphonse Indelicato
Anthony Indelicato
Giovanni Ligammari
Joseph Massino
Dominick Napolitano
Gerlando Sciascia
Dominick Trinchera
Joseph Zicarelli

So it was quite a significant change between 1979 and then.


Assuming the rule of thumb that each capo has 10 made guys under them, then the Bonanno family size would have been between 140-160 made guys, am I correct? Or was the number much higher than that.

Also, which of the capos were inducted pre-1976 (that is, before the books were reopened)?


There's at least about 130 confirmed members by 1979, so 140-160 in total seems like a good estimate for them at that time.

DiStefano, Ferrugia, Giaccone (likely), and Zicarelli were inducted prior to the books closing, so the majority of the 1981 captains were made from 1976-1979. The Commission closed the Bonanno books after the Galante murder.