yes I know but in terms of influence on the streets? will he make the lucchese concentrate more on construction etc since that was his bread and butter?
The mafia will concentrate on anything that makes money, including drugs. The Luccheses and Bonannos have always been the biggest dealers. The only large family that was never big into drugs is Chicago. They had a huge city to themselves plus most of the West.
The Gambino's have been the biggest dealers in the last 30 years.
Only because they're 3 times as big. As a percentage of made guys dealing, I bet the Bonannos and Luccheses were bigger. Even their top guys were known as dealers, like Carmine Trumunti, John Ormento, Furnari, Santoro, Casso, Amuso, Madonna, and now Baratta. They were also involved with the French Connection along with the Bonannos. Ralph Cuomo was dealing out of Ray's Pizza. Bonanno bosses Natale Evola, Paul Sciacca, and Carmine Galante were huge dealers and their big zip faction were all dealers too along with the Montreal crew and even Tommy Pitera's crew. The Bonannos were the American wing of the Pizza Connection. The Gambinos had their zips and a few guys in the Gotti crew were known for it. For the most part, their top guys like Gambino, Gravano, Castellano, Dellacroce and even Gotti kept their hands out of it.
