Gigi (John Fiore) is from that area of the country (Providence, Boston, etc). They allude to it in 2.01 (before he kills Philly Parisi). Philly was a capo of that crew Jackie Aprile, Chucky Signore, PHILLY PARISI then Richie Aprile
…I may be wrong but I thought that's how the succession went.
Gigi was from Jersey, he's in the flashback scenes of the Sitdown from 95, and he was apart of Junior's crew. For whatever reason, he hid out in Boston shortly after that and came back after Tony eliminated Mikey Palmice & Chucky Signore, and bust Junior down in rank.
