Originally Posted by MeyerLansky
Originally Posted by ralphie_cifaretto
Originally Posted by MeyerLansky
The bonannos have 500 associates ?


They have anywhere between 300 and 500 guys who are 'on the record'. The feds tend to inflate these numbers. A good guess would be around 400. Nicky mentioned 750 guys on record with the Gambinos and he's probably not too far off. As stated earlier, the vast majority of those guys never get made.

so from all of those 400 maybe only 180 - 200 are italian right ?


Very hard to say, especially in this day and age. The Staten Island crews and some of the Jersey crews are almost all 90% Italian. You start seeing more diversity in Queens and the Bronx. There are certainly crews in those areas where the Italians are a minority. The life has changed a lot over the years.