Please stop with those fictional words "boss of bosses". It was a phrase made up by some Feds & eager news journalist to try and score ratings and a conviction when John Gotti Sr Got pinched. There is no 1 boss telling any other boss how to run their families (with maybe an exception to the jersey guys)
It was used during the gotti days and created by some journalists huh? I was under the impression it was used all the way up to the point when the 5 families and the commission were organized. I'll let PB shed some light here. He seems to know whats up.
I ain't gettin involved
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The term certainly predates the Gotti era, by some fifty years, right back to the Maranzano and Masseria days. But Marbala does have a point. It was always a mythical position. Carlo Gambino never gave an order to Tommy Lucchese, nor vice-versa.
So you're both half right
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