I strongly disagree with those who claim that the Genovese Family were/are less violent than the other NY Families. Plenty of Genovese hits occured throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Two high ranking members were killed (Tommy Ryan in 1972 and Carmine Zeccardi in 1977). An attempted hit was made on Sally Palmieri (a skipper) in 1980; Carli DiPietro (another skipper) was killed in 1981. And plenty of soldiers/associates lost their lives in a violent way (Paddy Macchiarole, Lardiere, Briguglio, Pappa, George Zappola Sr, DiGiglio, Nat Maselli, John Malanga, Vincent Mistretta, Angelo Sangiullo etc, etc). Making a list of all the Genovese victims would take a lot of time and space. Gigante was known to have ordered plenty of hits.

However, the most violent Family, speaking from a historical perspective, is hands down the Colombo Family (pound for pound).

PB, you don´t call, you don´t write... ;-) I sent you a PM over on RD some days ago buddy.