1992 in the outfit was an important year i think for a few reasons.

there were a couple important natural deaths, accardo in may and vincent solano in november. accardos passing allows going forward to finally dispense with guessing as to his involvement, role and title if any in outfit affairs. it appears that the consensus is accardo although the last link to old days of outfit was not really involved in last years of his life and perhaps was not being counselled on everything by the top leaders, especially sam carlisi the BOSS. i recently read up on the relationship between carlisi and the outfits UNDERBOSS john difronzo in the 1986-1992 era and it doesnt paint a picture of one big unified outfit. you can almost use 1986 as a starting point where the crews that allied with these 2 top leaders began to drift apart. there is the story of dominic senese a union leader and relative of accardos who was shotgunned in 1989. it is said carlisi went ahead with this hit attempt, senese survived, without consulting accardo or difronzo. it is alleged this led to an angry confrontation at difronzos birthday party with carlisi. no open warfare ever broke out between the 2 as we know perhaps owing to accardo being alive still, and did not after his death for legal reasons more than anything.

with the death of solano in nov 1992 the rush street crew ceased to be part of the outfit admin/structure, if not before. the rush street crew does not appear to be very active leading up to 1992 and no big indictments or arrests happened after. i do not know who or which crew took over any territory in the rush st crew area and it looks like there main racket was corrupting LIUNA locals.

the outfit jan.1 1992
BOSS
SAM CARLISI
1. melrose park crew (direct with carlisi)
capo
james marcello- leader in chicago of the melrose park crew and possibly street boss for carlisi/outfit. making marcello #3 in all of outfit.

UNDERBOSS
JOHN DIFRONZO
peter difronzo- brother and messenger/#2.

2. elmwood park crew (direct with difronzo)
capo
joseph andriacchi or marco d'amico?

3. grand avenue crew
capo
vincent cozzo or anthony centracchio?

4. rush street crew
capo
vincent solano

5. cicero crew
capo
ernest infelise - indicted feb 1990 along with almost all cicero crew.

6. 26th st/chinatown
capo
james lapietra

7. chicago heights crew
capo
dominick palermo - under indictment since dec 1990, eventually sentenced mar. 27 1992 to 32 years in prison.

back to why this seems important, to me anyway. the narrative of the outfit having 6-7 crews then consolidating to 4 or 3 or whatever needs to be challenged. i am not saying something along these lines didnt happen, it did but not all at once. i think by jan.1 1993 if one were making a proper chart the rush st crew and any reference to it needs to be gone as well as chi hts never to be placed on a chart or list again. with this being said the crew number first goes from 7 to 5.

another question i have is what took place amongst the cicero and 26th st crews after death of ferriola. the current explanation about ferriola is that he was never boss, ub,sb or part of top admin but the south side boss/street boss, not sure of title to give. the south side group encompassed both cicero and 26th street in one large group and had been this way going back to fiore buccieri. so we have turk torello from 1973-1979, angelo lapietra 1979-1986 and ferriola 1986-1989. after ferriolas death who if anyone took over as south side boss? or did crews divide creating 2 autonomous crews who continued to work closely together? some info has infelise as the outfits #3 after 1989, but this comes from the belief that ferriola was boss or underboss. there is good evidence that john monteleone took this title again south side boss but a little later 1993/1994 not 1989.was this a decision by carlisi? did marcello have any influence over these crews? its a bit of a dark spot.

other important events in 1992 include;
jan.10 1992 indictment of both carlisi and difronzo in the rincon casino case.
nov.13 1992 release of joe lombardo.
dec. 15 1992 indictment of carlisi, marcello and entirety of melrose park crew.

from info i have found it looks like difronzo paid a bond and was released same day as arrest jan 1992. so he continued to be on the street in chicago. carlisi by this time was not spending much time in chicago mostly residing in florida, leaving marcello as his man in chicago. the 2 top men in the city then were difronzo and marcello.

i realize that alot of this has been covered before and likely is common knowledge to many on this forum, but as i said weeks ago it does not show up in charts. and if we are trying to both figure out this ever interesting outfit and how it is structured we need to go back a little in time. moving forward with this the structure will change of course the outfit has never been static, also at some point our good info will run out with the evidence. i do not know which year that will be but we must start somewhere.

any and all help needed, comments, critiques etc.