good discussions going here fellas, another question though.

what do we make of john difronzo all these years later?
the building consensus now seems to be that he never served as boss. there has never been any confirmation that he was and putting my long held bias and belief aside im open to any and all thoughts.
first a rough timeline of alleged roles.

JOHN DIFRONZO
UNDERBOSS (1986-1997??)
-i think we can all agree that he became UB after cerones imprisonment, this does not seem to be in dispute. it is also alleged he continued to control the elmwood park crew.

ACTING BOSS (1990-1993??)
-and into the weeds we go, it could be said that with carlisi 'semi-retiring' to florida difronzo could have been considered AB as he was the #1 ranking outfit member in chicago during this time. upon his march 1993 conviction all good info has him stepping back to deal with appeal/legal issues. it is around this time that john monteleone begins to be mentioned as AB. so whether difronzo was ever official AB or not he would at least have retained the position of UNDERBOSS i think.

UNDERBOSS (1994-1997)
-after success of appeal difronzo returned to chicago and i cannot see why he would have vacated UB position.

and now we get into the void....

with the death in january 1997 of BOSS sam carlisi a new BOSS had to be selected, maybe we are not sure. the going belief one that i can agree with is that monteleone took over as BOSS. the circumstances behind this arent as clear. difronzo upon carlisis death was next in line as official UNDERBOSS, it is alleged difronzo declined offer to take over as BOSS, letting monteleone take the big seat. with the many current and ongoing indictments across the outfit this cannot come as a surprise considering difronzos recent legal troubles.

UNDERBOSS (1997-??
SENIOR ADVISOR (1997-??

this poses a couple questions...
upon declining boss role, what position if any did difronzo hold going forward 1997 and on?
did he continue as UB but in a much less active role? perhaps also serving as an advisor to new boss?
i think we can assume that he no longer held any role inside the elmwood park crew. if he did not want to serve as boss i cant see him wanting to continue in any way dealing with the ins and outs of a crew.

if difronzo relinquished the UB role post 1997, who took it over? andriacchi? peter difronzo? al tornabene?
and if no longer UB did he then become a type of senior advisor and technically a made member with no crew, doing mostly legit business with his brother and far removed from outfit activity?

keep the banter going i feel were onto something and any little piece of info helps. there is such a lack of reliable info on the outfit , but as ive said before there is lots of knowledge on gbb.

happy saturday.