Hey NYM, I'm no professional on the board by any means, but the rumor mill from around 2000 to 2010 when I first read any OC research was that Joe Ida of Philadelphia was a very strong puppet of Genovese. Reason I tell you this is the rumor wasn't that he was an ally of Genovese, like Tommy/Carlo, Bonanno/Profaci, or Bonanno/Mangano, but a direct puppet.
I don't know if you could call him a puppet, but geographically Joseph Ida was not all that far from NYC. I have read that he lived in New Brunswick NJ and/or Highland Park NJ, and I know that both those towns are about half the distance to NYC than they are to Philadelphia. Actually a little closer to the NYC than Vito's home in Atlantic Highlands. Of course that doesn't make him a "puppet" necessarily, but he was within less than an hours drive of meeting any NY boss in their home town.
