m2w, carmela:

Very interesting information from you both.

The Cotronis in the Montreal Mafia had ties to the DeCavalcantes going back to at least the mid-1970s, and the old Rizzuto organization still had such links going into the last decade -- there were a few articles from November 2006 that mentioned the Rizzutos had inside help at the Newark Airport to enable them to get drug shipments through without being inspected. This assistance, I'm speculating, most likely came from the DeCavalcante group. But now that we know Giuseppe Terrasi is related to Domenico "Mimmo" Terrasi, the capocosca in the Rizzutos' hometown, we see even more links.

m2w:

Do you think Gaetano Amodeo, born in Porto Empedocle, was the capocosca of Cattolica Eraclea who preceded Domenico Terrasi in this position?