Back in the 1950s this meeting was held to discuss various topics including loansharking, narcotics trafficking, and gambling, along with dividing the illegal operations controlled by the recently murdered Albert Anastasia. An estimated 100 Mafiosi from the United States, Italy, and Cuba are thought to have attended this meeting.

Will we ever see something similar take place? Everything usually happens again eventually.

Discuss.

I can imagine a meeting with the Bosses or representatives of the 5 families, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

It wouldn't be so hard to set up.

Maybe a ZOOM meeting.

We don't even know if the commission still functions.

A zoom meeting ?!!!!! Lmfao that is hilarious because that’s probably how it would take place.

And useless,no common rackets. The Patriarcas have ties with Gambinos and Genoveses same thing for philly the Lucchese have power in NJ and first of all Detroit is too far and no serious money to make in a city made of 90% blacks.

The Joe Profaci, and later, Joe Colombo Family actually represented New England's Ray Patriarca Family on the Commission for many years.

In 2020 I had the same idea and made an image chart.
Today hypothetically speaking it would be easier to meet abroad like in mexico.

Who would partecipate?

Genovese - Liborio Bellomo
Gambino - Dominick Cefalù
Bonanno - Salvatore Mancuso or ???
Lucchese - Dellorusso for Amuso?
Colombo - whos the boss?

Philadelphia - maybe Joe Ligambi?
Patriarca - big cheese or maybe his brother?
DeCavalcante- no idea
Chicago - maybe Albert Vena?
Detroit - ???

And why not a rappresentative of Montreal and maybe some from Italy maybe the ndragheta.

And what about Buffalo?

Yes agreed.

Never happen. Law enforcement watches all these guys the way trhe Secret Service watches the President. Guaranteed RICO convictions if two of them met for coffee in a diner.

Lol unreal!

Exactly Turnbull!...NEVER gonna happen. NO way! NO how!

The mob isn't even that cohesive nowadays. And you also need to remember WHY the various bosses would periodically meet up in the first place. Don't lose sight of that.

It was because of their mutual racket interests that overlapped, that they needed to coordinate with one another. Examples; International liquor smuggling and wholesale distribution throughout various borders and states (during Prohibition); international narcotics traffic that they smuggled over the borders and coordinated through various territories controlled by fellow bosses; the 1940s-1950s nationwide expansion of the jukebox and coin-machine business that had exploded in popularity; horse-race results "wire services" that ran from California to New York (and nearly every state in-between) to help bookmaking operations; interstate truck and cargo hijacking; the national Teamsters, Longshoremen's, Laborers, and Restaurant & Bartenders Unions (to name but a few) that required the cooperation of fellow "Families;" Etc., etc., etc.

Today? There are no such operations happening. Certainly not on the grand scale as in years before. So tell me, why the hell would any of them (even if they could, which they can't) want, of even need, to meet one another?

There is NO such cooperation today! And with the sophisticated law enforcement technologies available to the FBI and other government agencies, there is NO way the remaining families (many of whom are already on a respirator) could pull it off without LE scrutiny, even if they wanted to!

And thats a well-worn fact! Despite the false narratives that some people on these forums would like to advance.

I could definitely see a meeting take place down in Mexico that consists of all the bosses of the cartels located throughout that country.

But that's Mexico, no comparison to America. I'm not impressed by what crime syndicates can pull off in 3rd world countries.

I don't think all the bosses will ever meet at once again, but I can still see different bosses from different cities meeting at different locations across the country. Appalachian was so stupid, absolutely no reason for them to all take off running like that. Made zero sense.

Some dumb fuck would probably attempt a drive by down there if that was to happen anyway. So dysfunctional the way they run things.

Chicago being a good example. Here’s a recent article with video footage from a story in 2009 that discusses exactly that.

https://abc7chicago.com/marco-the-mover-damico-dead-outfit-chicago-mob/6126739/

We're not talking about "cartels" here. We're speaking about an Italian Mafia "Commission Meeting."

Go look at my link I provided for a great video that Is a good example of what we are discussing.

You need to understand Liggio, that that was a different time, a different era. "Commission Meetings" were regularly held to discuss business or pending problems, These were conducted for many many years, many decades in fact, without incident. Every five years or so, they also held a "national" get-together to rub elbows. With the massive control they held over local police departments and politicians at the time, it was not a problem...UNTIL that fateful day, November 14, 1957 that a local yokel, NYS Trooper Edger Croswell, got ambitious. Hence the "Apalachin Raid."

That was a game changer for the mob! Literally, a watershed moment in their storied history.

Considering it got dozens of mobsters pinched, had a long term effect on the Mafia's livelihood and left Vito Genovese's reputation in tatters, I'd hope they learned from their predecessors mistakes.

Exactly!...And to a great degree, it did! They paid for that little faux pas for years to come. In fact, the mob is still paying for that miscue today!

Not today with camera's everywhere makes no sense.

Why take the risk?

Not on a national level what for?

I do not think it would happen with the N.Y. families.

Never! Ever! Gonna Happen!.....EVER!

The mob is a mere fraction of the size they once were, and so are the "rackets" they still operate. And each crew is pretty much "compartmentalized" to themselves.

So I just don't get it? What's the point to meet up, even if they had the need to (which they don't)??

And as you said BH, they'd be discovered in a heartbeat, which would only draw another Federal investigation. Lol

I don’t think so. No benefit to it.

RushStreet, the discussion is about the American Commission, not the families in mexico that are in partnership with the cartels. I know what you are saying. For those that are curious, look up Oreste Pagano,
Giulio Perrone, Bruno Gerardi, and Giuseppe Salerno to name a few.

They don’t have enough common interest or overlapping territories to have a need for a meeting.
The NY families can communicate as needed one on one then relay messages. There is no need to the whole group to get together anymore.

Anyone still alive made under or met Gambino, Lucchese or Genovese. Tommy Gambino has some stories of the older guys, wonder if he met Luciano etc