He became a capo in the early 50's of the little Italy lower manhattan faction of the Lucchese's. I use to think he was a genovese because he had a piece of Jimmy Hoffa and the teamsters but that is because I mixed him up with Anthony "Tony pro" provenzano who also had a piece of Jimmy. So It was Both ny families ( lucchese and genovese ) that had a piece of him and the teamsters.