Hey Carmela,
One thing i have always wondered about the Caruanas and Cun Tera's and your prob best person to ask is with family operating in a lot of different places do they all answer to one person? Or is it regional with a horizontal type structure?
Actually, the way you put it might not be a bad way to describe them: Regional with a horizontal type structure, since they are not in the same town any longer.
Even so, they're not as spread out as it sounds. All these towns are neighboring, and are still all in Agrigento Province, and they still all answer to capo of the province of Agrigento. Gerlandino Messina was the last provincial boss, but I've heard lately, Leo Sutera might have taken over, since Messina is never getting out and under article 41, solitary confinement for life. Not sure about that, though.
They still are a tight knit family, both by blood and marriage, that hasn't changed. But Rizzuto would find he doesn't fit in anymore. There has been a lot of re-organizing since he was last there and New Cupola's, new generations taking over, etc.
