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.
I've seen Pogo list those guys as made so I tend to take it at face value. But whether it's 2 members or 8 members, it doesn't make much difference at this point. Either way the family is defunct.
