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What's the real story?
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07/29/08 06:36 PM
07/29/08 06:36 PM
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OK, there's different stories for any given situation in mafia world so thought maybe could get a thread going to see what the common beliefs are.
So to kick off....
I've read 2 different stories on the bugging of Castellano's place.
1 - FBI covertly installed one by cutting the alarms, drugging the dogs,installing a duplicate lamp with the bug in it etc etc..
2- FBI agent posed as a repairman and planted a bug under Bilotti's watchful gaze.
Both accounts I've read were pretty detailed and seemed plausible.
So what's the general consensus with ya'll?
Ron
Last edited by ledblimp; 07/29/08 06:36 PM.
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Re: What's the real story?
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09/09/08 12:43 PM
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OK...new question...
Two versions of the start of everything....
1 - Maranzano held a meeting after Masseria was bumped off, laid out the family structure and the rules etc, etc... Luciano added the consiglieri (sp?)position and officially did away with the boss of bosses title after he bumped off Maranzano.
2- Maranzano simply proclaimed himself boss of bosses without any of the structure and Luciano organized it all after Maranzano was gone.
I've always gone with #1. #1 is generally acknowledged as correct, except that the five original Dons were counted as "caporegimes" under Maranzano. Luciano was one of them--not Maranzano's consigliere. Also, kinda ties into this question, I've read two versions of why Maranzano came to the States.
1- Immigrated like all the others of the time simply to escape poor conditions and growing problems with Mussolini clamping down on the Mafia.
2- Was sent by Vito Cascio Ferro to get things in line for Ferro to start building an empire in the states but then Ferro was thrown in jail by Mussolini/ Mori and Maranzano kept on truckin with himself as the boss.
I've always leaned towards #2 on this one.
Ron
Joe Bonanno, in his autobio, "A Man of Honor [sic]," says that Maranzano, originally from Castellammare del Golfo, came to America in 1925 after his career as a pezzanovante in Palermo was brought to an end by Mussolini's crackdown on the Mafia. Bonanno makes no mention of Don Vito. I go with him on this one because there's no evidence that Don Vito ever returned to, or took an interest in, America after 1909. It is true that Mussolini jailed him.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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