Originally Posted By: Camarel
Originally Posted By: HairyKnuckles
"Ok thanks i can see were i got mixed up. I thought Mangano was the one Maranzano madde boss after the Masseria killing. Who was boss after Mineo then?"

I really don´t know. There is a possibility that Scalise was made boss by Maranzano already right after Mineo was killed, perhaps on acting basis only. But considering the Family had split into two factions, Scalise must have been practically powerless at that time.
Another possibility is that the Family simply didn´t had a boss (right after the Mineo killing) and that a power vaccum occurred. I don´t think the two sides were able to name a boss. Who would have wanted the job at that time, considering the shooting came from all kinds of angles?


Yeah good point Maranzanos faction probably just absorbed the Mineos and Scalise just became one of his closest allies.

Sorry for the constant questions lol but was Mangano not also an ally of Maranzano if so then why would Luciano (or whoever) name Mangano boss rather than just keeping Scalise in place?


No problem. Yes, Mangano was also a Maranzano ally. But Maranzano settled on Scalise to run the old Mineo Family. According to Valachi (and I think also Nicola Gentile mentioned this), Mangano´s name was put on a "death list" with Luciano´s, Genovese´s, Costello´s, Capone´s and Dutch Schultz´s by Maranzano. So by September 1931, Mangano had clearly fallen out of favor with Maranzano who gave the murder assaignment to Scalise. But Scalise balked and informed Mangano of the murder plot instead. At the same time, Lucchese (another Maranzano ally) informed Luciano of the "death list" and from then on Maranzano was history.
It´s hard to tell why Scalise was demoted after the Maranzano murder. Joe Bonanno referred to the incident (in his book) only as "Scalise´s star fell. Scalise had been too close a supporter of Maranzano. With Lucky´s rise to power, Scalise became a liability to his Family, which didn´t want to antagonize the powerful Luciano and his cohorts."


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