Do Lastorino, Baratta, Zappola and Avellino have any roles to play in the current family structure?

Baratta had a sit down with Crea over a table at Rao's and won.

Surely that means he has some influence.

I imagine what went down with Lastorino's son didn't do him any favors.

Sal Avellino is retired by choice. The other three, well, not much choice about their current roles.


Fifteen years ago, Moe. More than a lifetime in that world. Let's just say that Bowat's position has been greatly diminished.


Nothing Lastorino did made him many allies (outside of the regime that ended up on the losing side). His son was just the cherry on the cake.

If this were thirty or so years ago, they'd all be lucky to be breathing, forget about shelved or demoted. A couple years back there were people in Camp Brooklyn predicting bloodshed and the war to end all mob wars. And I simply said, Never happen. I'm still waiting .

Go ahead and call Amuso the official boss if you want. I'm not arguing that point anymore. In theory, it's fine. But in practice, when you see how the Bronx/Westchester regime is living compared to the old Brooklyn regime, you might just understand what I'm trying to say.

Moe --- When I say "you," it's directed at all of the guys who think Amuso's still the guy. It's not directed at you personally. And I don't want to derail the thread by going down the rabbit hole with my buddy Ivy.

So, I'll finally say, Hey, the Feebs say Amuso's the boss, so I won't argue. But it's only on paper or in theory. In practice, the Crea faction is shitting all over the old Amuso/Casso guys today. And to a true wiseguy, that's worse than getting whacked.

Okay, call it a two post "comeback."

maybe not stronger in means of influence and manpower, but surely in consolidated leadership, stable administrations or whatever you wanna call it. More organized in "organized crime". If you look into all the documentarys, they essentially stopped in the mid 90s and concluded the mob was back to street level gang and therefore gone. Disorganized. That, in my opinion, has been obv proven to be wrong.
Feds have only now, after years, figured out the boss for the WS, took them some time.

Mob got more organized = what i think the feds mean with stronger. OFC ivy is absolutely right. No way theyre in the shape of ~ until the mid90s/2000s for bonnanos.

Nothing Lastorino did made him many allies (outside of the regime that ended up on the losing side). His son was just the cherry on the cake.

If this were thirty or so years ago, they'd all be lucky to be breathing, forget about shelved or demoted. A couple years back there were people in Camp Brooklyn predicting bloodshed and the war to end all mob wars. And I simply said, Never happen. I'm still waiting .

One of the Brooklyn capos was a young guy around 50 forgot his name he was a weed guy. Half a dozen of cassis guy all killers did get released they got to eat somehow. That one guy conte had a lot of bodies. He's free I believe.

Froggy Galione

He got out a few months ago i believe, was with George Conte in brooklyn. I cant imagine him getting back into the mix after all these years with so many changes.
Im not sure his family is in brooklyn any longer.

They're not just going to completely disband the entire Brooklyn faction, are they?

At one point crea was amusos acting consig. So they must have been close. And crea must have spent a lot of time in the 80tys around casso and amuso.think it was goia who told the feds about a sneak attack on crea so he wouldn't assume the top spot right?94 after casso flipped.

Another question, is Migliore retired?

Someone explain this one to me, cause it really never made any sense... A while back someone posted a Ney Jersey crime report from 83, it said that Chris Funari was being groomed for boss.