Originally Posted by Giacomo_Vacari
Jimmy Lanza, he still got headaches as boss, but his reign was not violent. His power and influence began to wane by the early 1980s, thus he started to make some poor choices. He still had San Francisco and Oakland in his fist, but the times were changing and he had a hard time adapting. He hardly made any new blood, two of the guys he made were a mistake, as one would become a cooperating witness, and the other would run a lucrative racket to the ground that the administration was taking a million or more a year, this was in the eighties so adjust for inflation. By 1985 he was ready to retire, and in 1986 when he felt there was no more Commission ( I am thinking the Paul Castellano hit), he handed the reigns to Junior (Anthony Lima Jr), but stayed active until 1989, as Sciortino declined the top spot and remained as the underboss and street boss.


This is good info GV