Just read an older NYPost article:
http://nypost.com/2007/10/25/day-the-don-got-clipped/

They suggested a theory I never heard before. Someone may have mentioned it above but too lazy to read all the responses

They said him being an FBI informant was a theory.

There is no way Albert ever talked, even if his younger brother did (and then, only after the assassination)

And Albert was from Parghelia, to the northeast of Tropea

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Nope. Albert Anastasia wouldn't talk to the feds. His brother Tony did, only after his brother Gerardo passed away and Gambino was snubbing him.

Yeah, I've also never heard anything about him being a rat. Don't buy it.

I wonder if Tony Anastasio got snubbed right away when Gambino became boss or if something else happened a few years later. I was under the impression that Tony Anastasio was on good terms with Gambino at least until about 1960.

Don't know if anyone is still reading this thread but I saw something interesting on pinterest. Someone posted a photo of a Genovese soldier named Lorenzo "Chappie" Brescia and said he was a suspect in Anastasia's murder. I know who Brescia was but never heard of him being involved in any connection to Anastasia'a murder. Brescia was an old time Genovese member who goes back to the days of Luciano.

No he was not involved. The shooters were Stephen Grammauta and Joe Cahill. On Rava the killers were Gambino family Florida acting capo Thomas Altamura and crew soldier Joe Indelicato at a funeral parlor and his body was dumped in the Atlantic Ocean. NY 3864-C-TE.

Stephen Grammauta and Joe Cahill being the killers came from a. small time blogger who found an old memo, most of which contradict one another. Since Grammauta had become popular on sites like this due to how old he was and speculation on weather or not he was still alive it was picked up by Gerry Capeci for a Gangland story. When Gambino was popular in the early 1970 time period he was blamed, same for Crazy Joe Gallo. We will never know for certain. I'd like to see what Massino and Gravano heard, also Cafaro since he was in that family. None were made at the time Anastasia was killed, but they may have heard from the most reliable of sources the true killers. I think that it had to come from inside the Gambino's or a war would have broken out.

Five guys hit Anastasia. The "barbershop quintet" as Crazy Joe Gallo called it.

The Frank Costello murder attempt (by Gigante) and the Anastasia murder were both in '57, somehow that's related I believe. The Calabrians were friends.