My charts are almost the same as yours except that in mine I dug deeper and put people who have been reported to be the "boss" on the chart and put their current status as if they were in jail and who is the current boss,etc If I have listed somebody in a position and they are in jail I will leave them in that spot unless I read information which contradicts that they no longer hold that spot. If somebody is under "indictment" that doesnt mean they dont perform their assigned duties until they officially go to jail. And I do admit that my estimates are a bit inflated by that post article, but those are the numbers I have chosen to include. I will update them after I get a better reading from a news report,etc if need be.
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You have "dug deeper" where? It's always best to go by official indictments, press releases, articles with law enforcement sources, etc. rather than some rumor floating around on the internet. Or by simple assumptions.
1. Nick Corozzo has never been identified by any official source as boss of the Gambino family. He has consistenly be cited as a captain, including in his latest indictments.
2. Peter Gotti is still listed by law enforcement as the official boss of the Gambino family.
3. Dom Cefalu has been in prison for some time now, hence he's really not in a position to perform in the capacity of an acting underboss.
4. Mario Gigante has never been identified as the boss of the Genovese family. A few reports about five years ago identified him as one of the captains who was helping to run the family. But that could be said about a number of them. The official boss position hasn't been filled since Vincent Gigante died in 2005 and Danny Leo was the last acting boss of record before he was imprisoned.
5. Barney Bellomo is officially a captain over a crew that operates in East Harlem and the Bronx. He was acting boss for the family during much of the 1990's before being convicted in 1997. He was released not too long ago and has not been identified as anything else than a captain though many consider him a potential successor to become boss.
6. Tino Fiumara is the captain of a crew based in New Jersey. Like Bellomo, he his name has been mentioned as a possible successor to take over the family, but there is nothing to suggest that has actually happened.
7. Dominick Cirillo is the captain of a crew based out of Manhattan. He was acting boss in the late 1990's but had to step down after suffering a heart attack. He then resumed his position as acting boss after he recovered but was indicted in 2005. He has never been listed by any official source as the consigliere.
8. In his most recent indictments before he was convicted, Vinny Basciano was identified as acting boss of the Bonanno family. Not the boss, which as been vacant since Joe Massino flipped.
9. Needless to say, it is going to be very hard for Sal Montagna to run the day to day operations of the Bonanno family, which an acting boss does, by remote from Canada.
10. Steven Crea is still cited by law enforcement as the underboss of the Lucchese family. Not the acting boss. With Amuso in prison for life and Crea under supervised release, the three man panel of Migliore, Madonna, and DiNapoli was running the family until Madonna and DiNapoli were indicted in 2007.
11. Tommy Gieoli is now behind bars so he also isn't likely running the day to day affairs of the Colombo family. Some reports have said Ralph Lombardo was the acting consigliere before he was imprisoned but the official consigliere of the family remains Joel Cacace.
