Killingjoke, in that Bonelli case the only Genovese member involved walked away when he found out that they were planning to kill Bonelli.
Capeci has nothing left to write about, so he promotes these clowns to Mafia status in order to have a weekly column.
As for this:
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How so? The son had no ties, the potential killer had none, the father was not a member, and no on sin the mob knew of it.
No, but father Zottola was still an associate. It wasn't a mob hit, the mob knew nothing about it at all, but it was an attack against a longtime associate. So it did take place in that world.
That is really a stretch.
Maybe a stretch, but I don't always consider a stretch to be completely invalid. What I'm getting at is that we're seeing quite a bit of crossover when it comes to organized crime. You have people - even if they're just associates - from the LCN environment increasingly hanging around with for instance street and biker gang members. You had the 2010 Lucchese bust where members from the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the UBN where arrested alongside Joseph Perna and Michael Cetta. Even despite the absolutely horrendous track record, it wouldn't surprise me if we'll be seeing actual direct mob-related hits getting outsourced in the future. In NYC/NJ there's always a Blood, a Trinitario, a Latin King, a Pagan...or an off-the-boat Albanian or Russian hood willing to cap someone for some cash.
