I know the story behind the incident, my question is who in the Gambino Family was it that Birns arranged the loan through. I'm aware Billy Cox was the courier Birns hired to pick up the money from New York for Danny Greene.
The general story seems repeated a lot but there is rarely deeper insight given as to who in the Gambino Family Birns would have associated with through loansharking, being a major national loanshark himself, he surely knew plenty. Moreover, he was more than aligned with the Cleveland Family who at the time was controlled by the Genovese Family.
So I'm just curious who pressed Birns on the original $75,,000 from the Gambino's because it would seem to have been a pure business decision that in turn set off the Greene Wars and the chain of events that lead to some of at the time the highest level informants ever, and the start of a decline of both Cleveland and LA
most likely (but im not 100% certain) the loan came from Joseph "Demus" Covello, made guy in the NJ Gambino's. Demus worked closely with Pittsburgh, Youngstown and West Virginia through Joey Naples and Paul Hankish. Between Hankish, Naples, Frank Unis Jr and Patsy Feruccio, Demus was taking well over $20 million a month in action or laying off to Providence. Also, Peanuts was close to the Fat guy in Harlem from the Genovese's who actually represented Cleveland on the commission. And by the way, Greene was going to get killed by either Jack White or Angelo Lonardo, there was no way that those two were going to ever let Greene live, especially after the Ciasullo bombing
