sorry didnt scroll back to check who made comment. was looking for another opinion is all.
it does make for a interesting familial connection and possible other connect to genovese. begging the question to whom do the decavs fall under gambinos and genovese?
history tells us the gambinos and is probably correct, however the genovese have the largest presence in NJ for any of 5 families at least as current activity, indictments and overall crews in state would suggest.
it may also be a time to note that according to most available intell senior member and possible admin member/leader philip abramo is brother-in-law to alan longo of the genovese.
It would be nice to find out if Charlie Mujuri's grown influence on the Family and his relations to Liborio Bellomo has played any part in the current politics of the Family. I don't think the Gambino Family has absorbed them and it's known they haven't but I don't think they're running the DeCavalcante Family or pushing them around. The investigation into Charles Stango gave us a picture of a independent Family with their own leadership. The relationship is probably just closeness and cooperation between the Sicilians in the Gambino Family and the DeCavalcante members with close ties to Sicily like the Bonanno Family's and Gambino Family's Sicilians back in the 80s. Charles Stango might just perceive the close relationship as being under them. Or like I said originally it could be that the Gambino Family is or was overseeing the DeCavalcante Family because of the tension that was in the Family at this time.
You might have doubt of their current links to Sicily and that's a fair assessment but consider the Bonanno Family had a large membership of guys who maintained ties to Sicily but many people believe it died out in the 1990s and 2000s. That was until the Cutrara investigation in Castellammare Del Golfo showed the connection is still there not only with towns in Trapani province but also in nearby Agrigento. Now compare it to the DeCavalcante Family who have always had ties to Ribera dating back to their formation of a Family. The Family's membership has mostly been from Ribera and other towns in Agrigento even to this day. There is at the very least a social link between them and some writers have said they are still criminally active. It's hard to believe the criminal element in these social circles just disappeared. Maybe the DeCavalcante Family just serve as a point of contact and act as middlemen to introduce them to other American Families for their friends in Sicily.
