Fat Tony reached out to Chicago. He and Milwaukee Phil did alot of business together, but Phil passed away a year before, and he was able to talk to Jackie Cerone and the Buccieri brothers, Fat Tony threw his support for Frank Buccieri to represent the New York Commission families on the west coast in 1980 or 1981. Eboli lived in both Chicago and New York, and lived most of the time in New York when his father was bumped up. Its interesting in that the Eboli brothers sons of Tommy grew up in Elmwood park and knew the crew real well, especially Jackie Cerone and Joe Gagliano, but ended up in Grand Ave crew, which shows how much power Cerone had for his position at the time. But Louie also had connections to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and some other cities due to his father. One of the reasons he took over the Grand Ave crew after Joey the Clown was locked up, plus he was supposedly a big earner.

Frank Buccieri and Anthony Salerno were the biggest reason that Chicago allowed New York families to operate jointly with them, also remember that when Atlantic City allowed casinos, the midwest families claimed Las Vegas as theirs but allowed New York to keep their interests in Las Vegas but could not build anymore casinos. This rubbed alot of the east coast families the wrong way, and this was a reason for the joint operations so they could avoid major conflicts that would have disrupted business.