Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
Originally Posted By: Camarel
Originally Posted By: F_white
Carlo Gambino run 4 out of five families with no jail time after become boss.


He only ran his own family he had allies as bosses of the Colombos (Colombo,Persico) and Luccheses (Lucchesse,Corralo). While he wasn't allies with the Bonnano's after Galante took over and supposedly from the early 60's when Bonnano was in charge. I've never heard of his relationship with Benny Squint i'm guessing he didn't know he was boss while he was Tieri's ally. I think it's highly exaggerated how powerful Carlo actually was he certainly didn't run any family other than his own.


Yeah, while Gambino may have been the first among equals, and had a certain degree of influence over some of the other bosses, it's very much an exaggeration to say he "controlled" or "ran" the other families.


Do you know if any of the other bosses knew that Benny Squint was boss? If not do you think they just believed Eboli,Tieri and Salerno were official boss?