Now I know most of these women do not get directly involved with LCN business but, there is no doubt in my mind that the women do play a roll. For instance, Joe Massino's wife was writing checks out to a parking lot owner that Massino was extorting......... I am baffled out how they allow wives to play the, "He told me he worked downtown!" and, "He is very private and doesn't like me to ask about his work".
Since you mentioned Josephine Massino:
Anthony M. Destefano, in his excellent Joe Massino biography, "King of the Godfathers," notes that "It had been something of an unwritten rule that the wives were off limits to prosecutors, that their spouses would take the fall. But [Assistant US Attorney Ruth] Nordenbrook didn't like playing by that mobe rule and chafed when some of her colleagues in law enforcement wanted to. She lived up to her ideals by prosecuting Marie Attanasio, the wife of Louis "Ha Ha" Attanasio." She was also the prosecutor who went after the Josephine Massino/Barry Weinberg connection.
