Luciano was the "Unofficial" commission chairman. He would never admit to it himself and refused to "officially" recognize himself as the chairman. Mangano became the chiarman of the commission when Luciano was convicted of criminal charges.


As for Gotti, well he never recieved official approval from any of the other familes. He was successful in recruiting some of Castellanos own people into supporting his move to take out Castellano.

And while Gotti never got the official support or ok from the other families, many of them did not care that Castellano was taken out becasue Castellano was too "modernized" in their eyes, and secondly he was having all kinds of charges brought against him and that would bring a lot of heat on the other families and the possibility of his bringing down the other families always existed if he was convicted.

So while they did not give approval to Gotti, they also did not object. Only one objected and was furious that Gotti did not get commission approval, and that was Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. He even tried having Gotti killed for it but failed, as Gotti's underboss, Frank DeCicco was blown up in the car that Gotti was supposed to be in.

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