every boss has one vote..if the commission still exists…no boss of bosses..maranzano was the last to try. gotti thought he could set up the commission by having massino, arena in his pocket..then he could be the boss of commission..how did that work out for the megalomaniac.
I agree. We don't know if there is even a Commission anymore. Probably not. But I think that today's historians haven't fully explained what the Commission actually was or how it actually functioned, it's principles. But being as the thing Lucky put together was so powerful, I think it is worthy of study.
But I want to know what people think of that. That Commission meetings weren't just about sit downs and keeping the peace, but actually about splitting up monies evenly between the Bosses, about setting up new joint ventures (the Windows scheme and the gas tax scheme comes to mind), and even discussing changes in the law with one another (RICO, drug laws, etc).
On a side note, Vincente Mangano was in fact named chairman of the Commission once upon a time. I don't know that it has any significance. Maybe the chairman title rotated. Maybe it didn't. Maybe Mangano holding that title had something to do with his supervision of the NY Harbor for the Mafia.
