Gallo bragged about it in a bar to Sidney Slater a week after the murder happened. Said he, Joey Gioelli, Ralph Mafrici, Frank Illiano and Sonny Camerone did it. Peter Diapoulos later said that Joey and Larry Gallo did it on Profaci's orders and that was how they got straightened out. Then in the 1980s, Carmine Persico told his brother-in-law Fred DeChristopher that Gallo had lied about participating in it. Persico then took credit for it. Vincent Teresa and Bill Bonanno have repeated Gallo's claim that he was responsible. Teresa said that Genovese ordered the hit and assigned it to Tony Strollo, who got the Gallos in. The Gallos were then sent to Raymond Patriarca, who lent them John Nazarian and Nicholas Bianco for the hit.

Teresa's story is totally unbelievable nonsense. Diapoulos' claim that Profaci was in on it is also unfounded - there's nothing to suggest Profaci was involved in the conspiracy. Gallo's brag to Slater and Persico's brag to DeChristopher are also bullshit boasts. The hit came from within Anastasia's family, possibly with secret support from Genovese and Tommy Lucchese. Joseph Biondo, Joseph Riccobono and Charles Dongarra (and possibly Carlo Gambino) were the main instigators. Steve Grammauta and either Joseph Cahill or Arnold Wittenberg were the shooters.