Believe it or not guys, one of the reasons I visit the Gangster BB is because I enjoy the writing styles of all the posters. Everyone writes in a unique way. Some posters make you feel like you are involved in a sit down. And let's face it, you have to enjoy the act of both reading and writing to even be here.

That said...

The 3rd Colombo war supposedly began with the failed attack on Little Vic Orena. But Greg Scarpa Sr. reported to his government handlers that the first shot fired was the whacking of Gioachino Leale. Leale reported to Pasquale Amato. Peter Lance's elaborate theory is that Leale and Scarpa Sr. whacked Tommy Ocera. Scarpa Sr. then covers up the murder by killing Leale and framing Little Vic Orena. Little Vic Orena then goes from being a loyal acting Boss, to a hated persona non grata looking as if he was staging a coup against Carmine Persico himself. The Leale killing is supposedly what caused the two factions to begin to war. But Lance still skips around how you get two factions in the first place. Acting Bosses have no business polling captains and creating "factions". That's a whackable offense. Therefore, does it really matter who fired the first shot or even if it was some kind of elaborate false flag attack? Little Vic started it. Not Scarpa, and not even DeVecchio.

Both the theory presented in this post, and the one in the original post came from the same book....believe it or not.