Lombardo was the capo of the Grand Avenue Crew after Battaglia and Milwaukee Phil. When he went to prison Louie Eboli headed the crew, but he died soon after and was succeeded by others. It came out in the Family Secrets trial that Lombardo had been pulled down and wanted to head his old crew, so he wasn't happy about it. This is while Outfit watchers were guessing that he was the boss or consigliere of the Outfit, which he wasn't. I don't know how active he was in the 1990s and early 2000s, but he may have been less active than people think. If he was making the phone calls to the FBI after he got out from prison in 1992, it could have been to get back at the new administration.
u don't go from bribing senators and being in charge of vegas to a nobody
especially after doing 12 years and shutting the fuck up about it
plus him, and the german were the only to initially duck the pinch
a nobody, wouldn't have been tipped off that the feds were coming
