LuanKaci Calogero Zito was charged in the Operation New Connection with his father Simone Zito. Calogero Zito is close with Tommaso Gambino who is Joe Gambino's kid. Tommaso Gambino was arrested with Calogero Zito in Palermo and was recently acquitted. I think Calogero Zito has been back in Philadelphia and I'm not sure what Family he and his father are with. They fall into that Gambino Sicilian Palermo group. Simone Zito's mother is a Mannino I'm pretty sure.

Vito we talked about the Bonanno Family's Sicilian faction before in a post you made I think and I gave you a list there. There's a group of guys that belong into it or a better phrase is they fit under the umbrella of "Sicilian faction" of the Bonanno Family. LuanKaci is right that Zip or Sicilian faction guys aren't always born in Sicily or Italy they are the descendants of guys who were born there and usually were big time drug traffickers in the 1970s 1980s. A lot of them are the former Giannini crew kids and have ties to Sicily.

I completely agree we can't use 50+ year old info as if it's the same today but you tend to ignore or dismiss the current info because you don't believe the connections can or do exist. We already talked about this but as recent as 2016 Bonanno members were meeting with the Capomafia of Castellammare del Golfo. In the same series of articles that came out documenting that meeting it mentioned multiple other Bonanno members who have travelled there in the last 15 years and Castellamare del Golfo affiliated people meeting with Bonanno Family members in New York. There hasn't been a Operation New Connection for the Bonanno Family and the Families in Trapani but the connections are documented.


If you or others in this post are a member of the Black Hand Forum you'll be able to find a post about Martino Antonio and Paolo Caputo and see why they're on the list Furio_From_Naples shared. If you're not I'll share it for you.

Last summer Anna Sergi released her book Chasing the Mafia that documented the Ndrangheta and a lot of her life growing up around them. If you don't know Anna Sergi she has a theory of Mafia Hybridization which is about certain people specifically in Ontario who fly the flag of La Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta when it suits them. Anyway in the book there's a chapter on this and she was given access to Project Otremens files and she shared a few transcripts. One of these talked about Joe Todaro being mad he wasn't told Iavarone and Caputo were made by the Gambino Family in California. This garnered a lot of attention by people who have been following Ontario's Mafia because only Albert Iavarone was previously reported to be made. A user on the Black Hand Forum contacted Anna Sergi and asked for clarification and she replied saying Martino and Paolo Caputo were made. A few months after this she released a paper that had a lot of never before seen Project Otremens transcripts and in it the same quote about Joe Todaro being upset except it said A Iavrone and A Caputo. A Iavarone being Albert Iavarone and A Caputo being brother Antonio Caputo.