What Are They, And Who Is There Don?
I No 3 Of Them, Gambino, Columbo And Bonnano, But I No No Others.

Lucchese and Genovese.

I'm not up to date on the current bosses though.

Thanks

Is anybody? It's like a revolving door--from "social club" to jail, to witness protection program...

Is anybody? It's like a revolving door--from "social club" to jail, to witness protection program... [/b][/quote]Yeah, I just checked the hierarchy-list of the 5 families based on FBI-information. The list was made this spring ,in may I think. (I must say I am not sure how accurate the list was)
According to that list the Genovese-family was run by a committee that served as "acting boss" for Vincent Gigante.
There were 5 names on the list, and almost everyone of them is in prison now: Cirillo, Ianiello, Barbato, Dentico and one name I cant remember.
The only one that is still out is Mario Gigante, or maybe he got busted too, it's hard to follow with the Genoveses!

If I am not mistaken, didn't the Bonnano family recently change their name, according to an FBI document?

Why would they change it?

Origionally posted by Willy:
The only one that is still out is Mario Gigante, or maybe he got busted too, it's hard to follow with the Genoveses!

Do You Know if Mario Gigante is in any way related to Vincent Gigante?

It had to do with whoever the new boss was, they started reffering it to his name, I'll see if i can find where i read it.

http://da_wizeguy.tripod.com/omerta/id22.html


MASSINO:

THE BONNANOS - named for boss Joseph (Joe Bananas) Bonanno - are now being called the Massino Family, after alleged boss JOSEPH MASSINO.
In the News: 20th - October - 2003

"The new name was disclosed this month in a 35-page federal indictment charging Massino with three gangland killings. Then a federal investigator let the Bonanno bombshell slip last week while testifying as an expert witness in Brooklyn Federal Court" - from NY Daily

Gambino Family: Danny Marino.
Genovese Family: Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo.
Lucchese Family: Joe DeFede
Colombo Family: Alfonse Persico
Bonnano Family: Joseph Messina

PD: The sources are not quite trustable, but here you go...

Photos:

Quiet Dom Cirillo

Joe DeFede

Theyre brothers.

It had to do with whoever the new boss was, they started reffering it to his name, I'll see if i can find where i read it. [/b][/quote]When Johgn Gotti took over the Gambino`s, why didnt they chnage it to The Gotti Family?

Keep in mind that family names are usually assigned by law enforcement or the news media. Guys inside the family usually refer to their families not by the name given by the above, but just generically, as in "our borgata," or "I'm with Dom" (or whoever).
At that, before the Valachi hearings in '62, neither law enforcement nor the media referred to individual families by name. They just referred generically to "the Mafia," "the Mob," or "organized crime," as if it were a single entity. Nor did they pay much attention to the Mafia before Valachi. He was the one who revealed the details of structure, and the bosses.
Nor is it clear to me that Dons--even egotistical ones like Gotti--ever impose their names on families. Sometimes, if the media or law enforcement sense that the new boss has an outsized ego, they might assign a new name--that's probably how the Genovese family got its name. The Columbo family probably got its name from the high profile that Joe Columbo took with his Italian American Civil Rights League. I doubt that it was referred to as "the Profaci family" before that.
Now, you're thinking, "If outsized ego is the figure of merit, whey weren't the Gambinos renamed the Gottis?" Probably because Carlo himself was so widely regarded as the top Mafia guy in the country. Gotti, for all his high profile, was arrested and on trial so often that I think the media probably regarded him as "temporary."