While it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if Cleveland only had two members left, I've seen 8 living guys said to be made -

1. William "Billy" DeNova/71
2. William "Billy D" Dileno/75
3. Joseph "Joe Loose" Iacobacci/62
4. John Iorillo/68
5. Ronald Lucarelli Jr/53
6. John Oliverio/59
7. Russell Papalardo/70
8. Anthony Velotta/70

I've seen the same things on Clevelandmob.com and other forums. Through a lot of our research with federal law enforcement, Dileno, DeNova, Iorillo, Lucarelli Jr, Oliverio and Velotta were never made. Lucarelli was a drug dealer and the rest of the guys missed any chance of being made when Peanuts was indicted...Licavoli was indicted in 1982, Peanuts Tronolone took over in the late 1980's but did so from Miami Beach (Peanuts and Tony Salerno were very close and the Genovese Family represented Cleveland on the commission). Peanuts was indicted for selling stolen jewelry to an undercover cop and he never named a boss because everybody was dead or in prison. Joe "Loose" Iacobacci was said to have been "a self proclaimed" boss of what was left...basically, he and Papalardo were the last two guys made by the old regime who were all locked up by now and Lonardo in WITSEC...Pittsburgh muscled in on most of their illegal activities after the bust but "NOBODY" except for Joe Iaocabacci himself and a few associates viewed him as boss, regardless of what is reported on some website. If anything, RJ Papalardo would have been promoted before Joe Loose as Loose was a real whack job, crazy, unreasonable and had an arrogant sense of entitlement. I've had this debate with several other guys on RD, and none of their claims about the other guys proved true. People don't realize that Salerno, Gigante and Benny Eggs were the key guys for Lonardo and Scalish. When Licavoli was "surprisingly" named boss by Scalish (which is still debated that he actually named Licavoli Boss) as Maishe Rockman, Scalish's brother in law, said that was what he wanted on his deathbed, everybody knew that Angelo Lonardo, Scalish's other brother in law did not get along with Rockman and that Rockman knew if Lonardo was made boss that he would have been phased out of the casino skim because Lonardo didn't believe that Rockman should have had the power he had within the family because he was not Italian.

Last edited by JCB1977; 10/19/13 11:27 AM.