You're completely right regarding the modern types of families such as Chicago and the Genoveses/Lansky being quite powerful because of their "liberal" organizations. According to Bonannos own words, guys like Luciano were allegedly interested only in money, meaning Bonanno represented himself as more traditional. Or according to one convo from Angelo Bruno in which he stated that Chicago boss Giancana was working literally with everyone, which is the same thing as Bonannos statement regarding Luciano.



My opinion regarding the statement about Lucchese in this particular file is that the situation was looked at from business point of view, meaning the Jewish faction already had much higher authority and influence in that particular racket than Lucchese.