One guy that hasn't been mentioned is Valachi, although it might just be semantics because he was made prior to the Five Families being divied up.

I've read "The Valachi Papers" three or four times, but I haven't read it in about ten years. I recall that Valachi was initially made by Maranzano either just prior to or during the famous Castellammarese war. He claimed that at the ceremony he was told that his new "goombah" was to be Joe Bonanno.

Then after Maranzano was killed, Valachi was apparently running scared so he reached out to Tommy Lucchese, who intervened and reached out to Vito Genovese. And I guess the rest is history because we all know that Valachi ended up a soldier in the Genovese family.

I know it's kind of convoluted and quite possibly not technically a change, because he was made prior to the formal Five Families being introduced, but I thought it was worth mentioning smile.


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