I'm really interested in info on Bellomo. Been reading around and was wondering if he was really a "stone cold killer"? Also, do you all believe he's the boss or just in a ruling panel?

Ruling panel, don't know if he's personally killed but has ordered several IMO.

My bet is bellomo along with frank Cali r the most powerful mobsters in the mob today , dress it up how you like but bellomo is running the show for the Genovese family , he has got great support and help running the family ,capos Ernie muscarella , John barbeto, Larry dentico , Daniel Leo and Anthony antico before he went to prison , bellomo is so well insulated it will be hard for the Feds to put him in prison again

Ruling Panel, most likely. I dont think he's running the entire Genovese Family, however. He does have a lot of respect and power to be a viable candidate as boss. There are still old timers such as Mario Gigante, Lawrence Dentico, Benny Mangano, Dominick Cirillo and Ernest Muscarella who hold a lot of weight on the streets. There are reports that at least half of these men are retired giving Bellomo more power.

Mario and Benny are done. And Larry's just about done himself.

Dom is still semi-active with some white collar Jersey stuff. But not much street action outside of his shy book.

And Ernie, well, he's still very busy with the "day to day." But his son runs a lot of that for him.

As far as Barney goes, I hear he's also reigned it in quite a bit since his wife died last year.

Pizzaboy, How are you my friend? What did she die of?

Pizzaboy, How are you my friend? What did she die of?

I'm fine, Scalish .

She died of lung cancer. The poor woman was diagnosed at Stage 4, and passed away less than two months later. It was fast, but of course very hard on the family. They're close knit.

Say what you will about the guy's business, I'm not excusing his life. But he and his wife raised great kids and they're all very close.

I agree with you my friend. That is to bad how old was she?

And sorry about the double post not sure how that happened.

56, way too young.

Oh brother that is way too young. She was around say 20 years younger then you pizzaboy lol just kidding pal.

Actually, she was two years older than I am. So she was about a year older than I am right now. So all kidding aside, that's the kind of thing that gets you thinking. You'll see .

I know brother not trying make her death a joke just breaking your balls buddy. Your still a young pup.

Somebody posted a fairly recent pic of Bellomo a year or two again but there was some controversy about it because it was a candid shot and I believe his wife was in it. It was taken down not long after being posted.

Wot about barbeto and Leo pizzaboy ??

Do you mean the picture that EastHarlemItal pulled off Barney's son's public Facebook page and tried to pass off as being from his own personal collection of family pictures?

That was it? Lol

Pizzaboy, Are you telling me that Barney Bellomo has ceased his activities a bit since his wife's death?

If that's the case, Who's running things?

Not sure about Danny's post-release restrictions. But either way, I haven't heard much about either of them lately.

Good to see you posting again, Dom .

You just signed up, so I'm not telling you anything .

But all kidding aside, yeah, I've heard that he's really reigned it in. And welcome to the boards, buddy .

Thanks pal , been quite busy latlely , the wife and I have just had a baby girl recently so mob events have had to be put on the back burner for a while but I'm bak now ha

Thanks, I appreciate it. Looking forward to chatting with you all.

Looks like Muscellera's Kid will be point man in a couple of years... I wonder how the Jersey faction will look once Larry dies.

There´s nothing more important in life than posting on a Mafia forum! Not even becoming a father is more important....

Congratz Dom!

Ha ha , this is very true hairy

In this thing of ours, your love for your wife and child is one thing, your love for The GangsterBB Family is a different kind of love..

This is what I've been able to piece together regarding the relatively scant info on the Genovese hierarchy over the past 25 years...



May 1990 - Barney Bellomo made acting boss after Vincent Gigante is indicted in the Widows case.

June 1996 - Barney Bellomo indicted. Dominick Cirillo becomes acting boss.

May 1998 - Dominick Cirillo steps down after a heart attack. Frank Serpico follows as acting boss but steps down some time between then and April 2001 when he's indicted as the "former" acting boss. Whenever that was, apparently Ernie Muscarella followed as acting boss.

January 2002 - Ernie Muscarella indicted as acting boss.

Artie Nigro was reported to be acting boss in November 2003 so he probably succeeded Muscarella.

If what former FBI agent Jack Garcia said was correct, Pasquale DeLuca was probably acting boss at some point during this time, since it would fall within the December 2002 - March 2005 time frame of Garcia's undercover work; though it's not clear for how long since we don't know exactly when Dominick Cirillo resumed his the role after he recovered.

April 2005 - Dominick Cirillo indicted as acting boss.

July 2005 - Matthew Ianniello indicted as "an" acting boss, as opposed to "the" acting boss. This is wording is probably intentional by the feds, which suggests he was on the ruling panel.

December 2006 - Danny Leo identified as acting boss (from his previous position on the ruling panel) and indicted as such in May 2007.

June 2009 - NY Daily News article identifies Benny Mangano, Ernie Muscarella, Barney Bellomo, and Larry Dentico on a "rotating panel" of recently released senior members running the family.

September 2009 - NY Times article identifies Tino Fiumara as being on a "three man panel" running the family.

February 2010 - Artie Nigro indicted as the "former" acting boss.

February 2014 - Wall Street Journal article reports that the family still likely uses a rotating panel of leaders.

Thanks ivy , who do u think the other two members of the ruling panel where when fiumara was on it ?? Don't think the other two where determined

http://www.leagle.com/decision/19961892925FSupp967_11765.xml/U.S.%20v.%20GIGANTE

This was the most recent thread on Genovese so I thought I put it up here. Not sure if anybody's posted it before but there some good stuff in it, go into them selecting NE administration and some other good info.