Originally Posted By: mulberry
Originally Posted By: LittleMan
Lansky: Yes. The Bug and Meyer mob was violent. I can also see him whacking a Nazi supporter in NYC during WWII.

Gambino: No. He was born into a mafia family and was well connected in NYC before arriving. I don't think he ever pulled the trigger, mostly because he didn't have to.

Bonanno: Yes. He was Maranzano's underboss and chief of staff during the Castellammarese war. He was in his twenties and probably fearless back then. Plus, he supposedly owned a funeral parlor that used double decker caskets, it makes it easier to believe that he was hands on with the murders.


Nobody is ever born a made man, no matter what family he is born into. There is less evidence of Lansky ever killing anyone. There is no evidence of Bugsy Seigel, Sam Giancana or Paul Ricca killing anyone either.


No..there most definitely is. Ricca killed Emilio Parillo in Italy and Matt Kolb in Chicago. Siegel had a murder charge on his record and insisted on being involved in the Allie Green murder in LA.

Good call on Angelo Caruso being Maranzano's Underboss. People don't realize that most of the time, the Underboss isn't the Don's right hand so much as he's the guy with the second most street power. Bonanno may well have been the #2 of the Castallamarese faction, but he was not the #2 of the Maranzano. That was Caruso, who headed the non-Castallamarese wing.

Last edited by BarrettM; 08/25/13 10:28 PM.