I personally dont put any stock in Jerry Capecis so called rumors.
For the record, Capeci has proven himself to be a very reliable journalist over the years.
There was a time (back around the late '70s/early '80s) when Jimmy Breslin, a very respected newspaperman here in NY, would report that Salerno was the top man in the Family. Those old reports seem to have lessened Tony's rank over the years and I'll leave it to you experts to debate the issue, but I ask, as has already been suggested, that we leave out which bodily part is doing the talking.
It wasn't just Breslin. Everybody thought Fat Tony was the boss before turncoats like Cafaro, Gravano, Casso, etc. set them straight. And, in hindsight, there were several recorded conversations that verified what all these gangsters said in debriefing or in trial testimony. The former prosecutors and the FBI agents involved in the Commission case admitted they had the wrong information. And since the time Cafaro first revealed the truth, there has been
nobody, outside a few history revisionists on the internet forums, who have said otherwise.
I also saw that Frankie locascio's son made over $300 million annually off of pornography website scams for the Gambino family.
The total take from the Locascio crew's two scams - the internet porn scam and the phone sex line cramming scam - was reported to be about $750 million. The internet scam made about $230 million and the phone cramming scam made $520 million.
Prosecutors alleged Salvatore Locascio received at least $8 million as captain of the crew, and he was later able to pay a $4.7 million fine. Richard Martino was able to pay a $15 million fine. Zev Mustafa payed a $1.7 million fine. And Daniel Martino, Thomas Pugliese, and Andrew Campos together payed a total of $2.1 million in fines. The internet porn company involved in the scheme payed $30 million in fines. $40 million was said to have gone to the Gambino family as tribute. So, at the very least, the Gambinos made close to $67 million from the two scams, while paying close to $24 million of it back in fines. So they cleared over $40 million. Probably a lot more though.
