Well, that's already jumping to a conclusion. He was simply described as the point man there. In the indictment, he seems to have been involved in gambling and loansharking operations like Joe Queli was. I'm not sure if he was actually involved in the labor racketeering aspect of the docks, though he may have been. But I've seen nothing that says he was running the entire crew at any time.
Ivy, if you will take my word for anything let it be this. They don't go to the docks everyday for the coffee and conversation. Those places are HELL on earth. I've poured a ton of concrete at those places, when your pouring concrete and feel bad for others you know it must be bad. Because pouring concrete is about the hardest work there is. Until I watched what those animals do day in day out!
I'm not saying this guy is a labor shiester, just saying those places suck! And the smell is awful. Combination of Sea and Fumes!
I'm just saying that people shouldn't jump to the conclusion he is or was the acting captain of the crew. Why? Just because he was named in the waterfront indictment? Joe Queli was named in one as wells Going by the same criteria, we may has well call Queli the acting captain too.
This is what I mean about certain things being assumed as fact on these forums. They then get repeated over and over again by different parties. And before you know it, it's accepted as the truth by everybody.
If Depiro was the acting captain, the feds would likely have known it and he would have been labeled as such in the indictment.
