so then by your 'fantasy' remarks mafia, you do not believe in the outfit having a different structure and make up then say the colombo crime family?
which is fine and was a question i had posed on another thread asking about this in regards to structure. if anyone were to try to make new accurate charts on the outfit we need to come to an agreement on its structure.

the disagreement about this is the crux of the issue. personally years ago i would have agreed with you to a point, but the more you re read all material on the outfit the more you realize this simply cannot be the case.
take john monteleone for example circa 1994. information from his FBI file backed up by informants, monteleone was around this time;

SOUTH SIDE BOSS
in charge of both 26th street crew as capo and supervising cicero crew led by michael spano sr.

there is also speculation monteleone was also ACTING BOSS of the outfit.
so which family in the US had a similar set up to this? i cannot think of any off the top of my head.

there is also the sticky issue of the fact the outfit never, not once made a boss while he was imprisoned. possible this all changed once accardo died and carlisi was boss. there is good evidence to show that more and more outfit leaders retained control while imprisoned. marcello and frank calabrese sr come to mind.


https://archive.org/stream/183-cg-1622-d-section-2/281A-CG-91205%20---%20Section%201_djvu.txt

a link to monteleones FBI file.