Same reason you stalk personal fb and instagrams of mobsters I guess.

Go sip your tea and continue to envy America, and stop stalking me weirdo.

You have never embarrassed me.

Hence why I don't follow you around making comments, but you stalk me because I crushed your fragile little ego, and you are still reeling from months ago. hahaha...PATHETIC.

Now stop throwing the topic off, weird little stalker and go back to beating off to Merlinos personal photos.

You guys should take a deep breath and think about the REAL trolls on the board. You're giving them what they want. They make an seemingly innocent post, then sit back and watch things mushroom. You've both been here awhile. Don't give them what they want.

I don't think he's a troll. You two just don't see eye to eye, that doesn't make him a troll. A troll is someone who usually posts non-sense or things that are completely random in the sake of getting a reaction out of the forum. I've never seen Blackjack do any of those things.

I would advise using the search function before bringing this up, which will just start an argument with the same people that say Detroit is dead.

They are more active than you think. Also, regardless of numbers they have more admin spots than NY traditionally does, for insulation purposes.

But you obviously have already formed your opinion with statements such as "surely for a family not up to much". You sound pretty confident in this.

Anyway here is roughly how it looks today.

Administration

Boss – Jack “Jackie the Kid/The Bathrobe” Giacalone
Underboss – Anthony “Chicago Tony/Tony Lop/The Loli-Pop” La Piana
Consiglieri – Anthony “Tony Pal/The Butterfly” Palazzola
Street Boss – Peter “Specs/Blackie” Tocco
Counselor emeritus: Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco, Joseph "Joe Hooks" Mirabile, Dominic "Uncle Dom" Bommarito

Capos

David “Davey Donuts” Aceto
Joseph “Joey Jack/Joe Vine” Giacalone
Joseph “Joe the Hood” D’Anna
Paul “Big Paulie” Corrado
Antonino “Tony the Extermintor” Ruggirello (coming out of retirement for short-term stint until La Piana names an official successor as boss of his crew, the former Meli crew)

“Soldiers”

Anthony “Tony Z” Zerilli (inactive/shelved)
Vito Tocco
Salvatore “Mops/Junior” Tocco
Jack “Little Jackie/Miami Jack” Tocco, Jr. (part of the year in FL)
Anthony “Nino/Smitty” Tocco
Anthony “Little Tony/Little Tawncy” Tocco, Jr. (part of the year in FL)
Joseph “Joe T” Tocco
Peter “Fat Pete” Corrado
Peter “Baby Bull” Corrado
Paul “Cousin Paulie/the Fixer” Corrado
Anthony “Nino” Corrado
Dominic “Chicago Dom” Corrado (CHI-NW IN)
Joseph “Joe White” Giacalone (Flint)
Jack “Jackie the Nose” Giacalone (FL)
Vincent “Vinnie Jack” Giacalone
Dominic “Fat Dom” Rubino
Peter “Petey Boy” Messina
Joseph “Jo Jo” Messina
Joseph "Joe the Clipper" Barbara, Jr. (semi-retired, sometimes looked to for counsel by admin)
Dominic “Big Dom” Vivio (shelved-PITT)
Frank “Frankie the Bomb” Bommarito (semi-active)
Robert “Bobby the Animal” La Puma
Gerard Di Michelle
Sam Ventilmiglia (TX)
Anthony Rugerio
Patrick Rugerio
Antonio “Toto” Ruggirello
Anthony “Little Tony Long” Cimini, Jr.
Anthony “Little Tony Razz” Randazo Jr,
Girolamo “Mimmo” D’Anna
Salvatore “Sparky” Palazzola, Jr.
Vincenzo “Vinnie Meatballs” Bronzino
John “Johnny Bananas” Sciarotta
Joseph “Joe D” Di Stefano
Eugene “Genie Boy” Baratta
Joseph “Joey the Trash Man” Tringali
Isodoro “Teddy San Diego” Matranga (CAL)
Peter “Pete the Clown” Leonardo
Louis “Butch” Stramaglia
Greektown Mike Katranis (in charge of Greektown)
William "Billy Lee" Loiacano (FL-inactive)
Joseph "Joe Gravel" Gargalino (FL-Retired)

Great list BlackJack. I've also read about Girolamo"Mimmo" D'Anna and Guiseppe "Joe" D'Anna as being Detroit's main connection to Italy through their cousin Salvatore D'anna. I agree that they may be small as a family but the ones moving up are carrying some serious clout. As with all families you have the cunning silent types and the fuckin maniacs. These guys are clearly the maniacs.

http://www.sourcenewspapers.com/articles/2013/03/07/news/doc5137d05e9da2d770356725.txt

"The two Shelby Township brothers indicted last month by a federal grand jury in connection to the baseball bat-beating of a rival restaurant owner have ties to alleged Sicilian Mafia figures in Italy and should be considered dangerous, according to federal prosecutors.

Giuseppe D'Anna, aka "Joe," 60, and Girolamo D'Anna, aka "Mimmo," 48, are the cousins of Salvatore D'Anna, who the U.S. Justice Department says is a boss of a crime family in Terrasini, Italy. Both of the D'Annas and Ventimiglia were born and raised in Terrasini, Italy, court records show.

"According to the latest documents, the D'Anna brothers were upset that the owners of Nonna's Kitchen had not sought and received permission from them prior to opening the restaurant in 2009. At the time, Giuseppe D'Anna's wife owned Tiramisu Italian Ristorante across the street.

The feds say the D'Annas made it known the victim's family would be subject to the punishment of the Sicilian Mafia if he proceeded with the opening.

Two years later, when Nonna's was undergoing an expansion in 2011, the D'Annas entered the restaurant one night. While Girolama D'Anna distracted the victim, Giuseppe D'Anna entered and struck the owner 11 times with a baseball bat, leaving him with a closed head injury, broken jaw and other injuries."

So you're saying the Detroit family have ties to Italy, based on what? All they've got left is gambling and loansharking, mid level I'd imagine aswell.

The D'Anna brothers have been proven to be low level enforcers, nothing more.

as I've stated few posts up the d'annas do have connections

with this being said, their lineage alone doesn't automatically mean that they hold any high-ranking LCN role either in the usa and/or italy.

nor that detroit's lot have transnational connections

keep in mind that the d'annas in terrasini are a small-time family in a small seaside town

once again this is a duo of street hoods

they're muscle-material...nothing more than that

stop day dreaming about it

I'd say they are the second most powerful outfit outside new york families tied with chicago or even more powerful than chicago

I'd say they are the second most powerful outfit outside new york families tied with chicago or even more powerful than chicago

Nothing to do with seeing eye to eye. He's clearly a fucking idiot, everything I've said about him is 100% correct. Anyone who makes things up to deflect attention away from himself is a troll in my eyes.

He himself didn't say the D'Anna's had ties to Italy, the article did. Scott's also said the same thing in the not too distant past.


As of 2013, they still had relatives who are big in the LCN world back in Sicily. They're dad or uncle is a big don in Terresini. Calogero or Girolamo D'Anna or something. Salvatore D'Anna, apparently is or was the boss of a Terrasini crime family as well, and he's their cousin.

As far as a low level enforcers go, sources says they head the Zip faction of that tiny little, defunct crime family.

And someone asked a few pages back where these guys would recruit from. I don't know this for a fact, but again sources, and some pretty reliable people from the city itself and also who refer to themselves as "LCN insiders" or "researchers", claim there are 200-250 thousand Italians in the Metro Detroit area, many of them are Sicilian.


Credit goes to the Real Deal forum for a lot of that information and posters like mcscott and Double Zee.

I'd say they are the second most powerful outfit outside new york families tied with chicago or even more powerful than chicago

You are clearly a low life, who looks at LCN from another country, worshiping AMerica while your panties are wet.

You are honestly, an absolute joke when it comes to LCN.

Coming from a guy who fantasizes about Tommy Gambino. "A sissy dressmaker"

Fitting.

I don't think anyone ever claimed Detroit was a big family. The names in those charts, which some of which are more than 2 years old, are those at the capacity. The fact is, they aren't defunct like a lot of you have been claiming, they aren't starving or desperate for survival. They're around.

it wasn't meant to you in particular
just a way of saying that -sometimes- we fall to believe things are on a higher layer than what they really are.

this family has people doing that y'know
which is more than understandable given how little current info is out there on them

besides, welcome to the forums terence