Originally posted by plawrence:
My guess is that Zasa was an "up-and-comer" within the Corleone Family itself, a Capo perhaps, who was considered capable of taking over the NY operations, and was granted a large (but not complete) degree of autonomy to do so, in exchange for a percentage of profits to Michael.
In the Godfather III, Al Neri says to Mike, after the Commission: “The old Dons were pretty much wiped out. The ones that survived, made deals with Joey Zasa”. In fact I don´t know if Zaza is within Corleone family or if he is a strange
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