Originally Posted By: Tony_Pro
Originally Posted By: HairyKnuckles
Originally Posted By: Tony_Pro
Here Ed Scarpo states that Joey Gallo was a capo. I've seen it stated here that he was only a soldier before the rebellion and I've heard from another (rather dubious TV documentary) that he was in Perciso's crew. Is there any definitive idea about that?


Never a captain. It looks like the Gallo brothers, before the rebellion, were part of Harry Fontana´s crew. When the war broke out, they were considered persona non grata. After the war, Colombo brought back Larry Gallo and a couple of other rebels back into the fold and put them in his own crew. Carmine Persico was member of the same crew. Joey Gallo, however, refused to be brought back. It also looks like Persico took over this crew when Colombo was bumped up. But I don´t know if Larry Gallo and the rebels stayed with Persico. Many soldiers were moved from left to right, changing crew affiliations, almost all the time.


That clears some things up for me. Thanks Hairy.


Just want to add, it´s easier for the Colombos to move soldiers from one crew to another because most of the soldiers were based in Brooklyn at least at that time. Same with the Bonannos whose soldiers were mostly based in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. I have not seen (at least to my knowledge) the same switch-crew-frequency with the bigger Families like the Gambinos and Genoveses who had (and still have) soldiers scattered around throughout the whole big NY metropolitan area.

And you´re welcome TonyPro.


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