Ill add something on Manfredi Mineo. He had his own gang, merged with Salvatore D'Aquila, then broke away, this is when Salvatore DiBella was head of his own family. Which means and this is something I believe in, is that D'Aquila was dealing with a renegade faction in his family for a time. I believe Mineo was also involved in Salvatore D'Aquila killing since Manfredi took over D'Aquila family soon after, and had support from Giuseppe Masseria, and Gaetano Riina. It is easy to say well we have two families from Palermo area so Manfredi had to he a boss of that one, than it broke away. Truthfully that part of its history gets complicated as we have very little to work with. I still stand by with what I said. By far 1912 is an interesting year for organized crime, not just in New York City, but across the nation.
In addition, I would also like to add that Chicago's Mike Merlo (possibly), Tony Lombardo and Joe Aiello were probably under the D'Aquila regime.
lol what are you talking about? Chicago had its own family, they werent under anyone.
Thats actually not true. What was considered the 'overall' Chicago "Outfit" was actually considered an 'independent' gang from the Mafia. And even afterwards, they were but a single 'crew' of NY's Masseria Family until 1931. And the actual Mafia groups located around Chicago were much smaller entities who, although were Sicilian borgatas in their own right. Nonetheless were subservient to, and took direction from, the larger Families based in NYC and back east.
It was only after Chicago, under Capone, became recognized as a Family in their own right, that these other Mafia groups either melded into Capone's Family, or left the area altogether and realigned with other Families outside of Chicago, per se.
