Right, new york had the northeast and chicago had the midwest so between them the commision ruled pretty much the entire american mafia with the exception of the south east with marcello and trafficante, but even when marcello had a problem in his family when sam corallos son claimed he was the rightful heir to family, they brought it to new york to settle it.
Yes. I always thought as a whole, the commission ran the country, not just a region.
That's how Bugsy was able to go into California and muscle in on the rackets. Dragna didn't want to mess with Luciano, who had the reputation of having the commission behind him.
And according to Frank Ragano's Mob Lawyer, every time Santo Trafficante had a major decision to make, he'd fly to NYC to get input from his LCN contacts. He was given respect, but would have crushed if he crossed the commission, IMO.
And it seemed that when NYC backed Marcello, Corallo had no chance-despite being more experienced and probably more qualified. Costello had a good thing going with Marcello/Long and wanted to keep things running smoothly.
