Also noticied multiple similarities between how the Navy Yard Clan and that early Clan in your stories Syracuse operated.Just about everything they did mirrored each other,as if they had the same game plan.
They probably all knew each other and copied a lot from one another. It would be interesting to know if the clans in places like Philadelphia,Chicago,Cleveland, Pittsburg, Steubenville, Youngstown,and other places all operated in a similar way. If they did,it would probably mean that they all were somehow connected to each other
Most of them were connected to one another. There's been a lot of documentation over the years confirming that.