Originally posted by Franklin:
But Al Capone was in the comissione, isn´t that enough?
I thought so. True, Capone wasn't a Mafia guy, but I took the question to include all organized crime bigshots. And yes, Charlie Luciano made Capone the chairman of the Commission. It was an honorary title, and he still wasn't a Mafia guy, but he sat with the mighty.
Joe Columbo, it must be said, appeared on nationwide TV (the Dick Cavett Show), led rallies of hundreds of thousands in NYC's Columbus Circle, and gave many interviews to newspaper and magazine reporters. But Capone, in his day, was even more famous than Babe Ruth.
